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Kerry Barmann

Stories by Kerry

In PEERS Project, kids teach kids to abstain
By Kerry Barmann, 15, Christine Beyer, 14
E ven though the U.S. teen pregnancy rate has dropped in the past decade, more than 2,700 teenage girls still get pregnant every day, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization specializing in reproductive health research. The PEERS Project hopes to further reduce those numbers. Locally founded in 1994, the project, which stands for Peers Educating and Encouraging Respons