Georgia Campaign For Adolescent Power & Potential

GCAPP's works to ensure Georgia’s adolescents and young adults are healthy by focusing on: reproductive health, physical health & nutrition and healthy relationships. Founded by Jane Fonda in 1995 as the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, the organization began when Georgia had the highest teen birth rate in the nation. Today, after experiencing a 37% decrease, it has dropped to the 13th highest. An acknowledged leader in the field at both the state and national levels, GCAPP has recently changed its name to the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential to incorporate a new focus on overall adolescent health. Through education, advocacy, teaching, technical assistance and collaboration, each year GCAPP reaches over 30,000 teens, parents, families, health educators, and youth serving organization professionals to address one of the state’s toughest and costliest issues. GCAPP has trained teachers in 41 schools, giving more than 13,000 students the opportunity to receive proven, effective health education programs that work. Realizing that chronic poverty, dropping out of school, lack of employment, poor health, and little hope for a brighter future go hand in hand with teen pregnancy, at the heart of GCAPP’s work is providing teens with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make good healthy choices—choices that include delaying sex and, for those young people who are sexually active, ways to protect themselves and stay healthy.