Your Year-End Gift Will Help to Prevent Poverty

PATH-End-PovertyIf you could make a donation to help “break the cycle” of poverty, would you?

A Positive Approach to Teen Health (PATH) is breaking the cycle of poverty in Northwest Indiana by working with young people to help them make healthy choices that will lead to fulfilling and productive lives.

Consider this …

  • A baby born to a teenage mother is 27% more likely to grow up in poverty
  • If the parents are unmarried when the child is born, a life of poverty is 42% more likely
  • If the teen mother did not receive a high school diploma or GED, the child is 64% more likely to be raised in poverty.*

PATH programs prevent teenage pregnancy, discourage sex before marriage, and help to keep teens in school. PATH programs help to prevent poverty.

You can help to prevent poverty too with your tax-deductible, year-end contribution to PATH.

PATH provides classroom programs, teen assemblies, and mentoring programs for middle school and high school age students in all seven counties of Northwest Indiana. Discover more about A Positive Approach to Teen Health by visiting our website at www.pathblazer.org.

Please make a year-end gift to PATH.

From the staff, volunteers, and teens of PATH, may you and your loved ones have a blessed New Year!

*Committee on Ways and Means Democrats, Steep Decline in Teen Birth Rate Significantly Responsible for reducing Child Poverty and Single-Parent Families, in Committee Issue Brief, April 23, 2004. 2004, Author: Washington, DC.