CHART Priority: 3 (2011-2012)

CHART Priority levels (1, 2, or 3) are based five health indicators. For more information about CHART and CHART Priority counties, see http://www.mississippifirst.org/CHART-initiative.

District Adoption of Sex Ed Policies

Amite County School District -- Abstinence-Plus

2011 Teen Birth Rates (per 1,000 teenage girls)

2011 Sexually-Transmitted Infection Rates (per 100,000 people)

Source:

*Mississippi Department of Health: http://msdh.ms.gov/phs/2011/Summary/teenst11.pdf

**MS Teen Birth Data was taken from (Table A4, Pg. 10) of the Mississippi Department of Health's 'Vital Statistics-2009' Report: http://msdh.ms.gov/phs/2011/Bulletin/vr2011.pdf

***Mississippi State Department of Health: Chlamydia Infection Rates (2007-2011) http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/3697.pdf and Gonorrhea Infection Rates (2007-2011) http://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/3698.pdf

^National Birth Statistics. Table 2, Pg. 19. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_05.pdf

^^"Kids Count: Data Center": http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/stateprofile.aspx?state=MS&group=All&loc=3985&dt=1%2c3%2c2%2c4