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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Lopez

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/11/07

HB

SHORT TITLE South Valley Male Involvement Project

SB SM 14

ANALYST Wilson

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to SB124 &SB 280

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Health (DOH)

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Memorial 14 encourages young men to be active in their communities and families and

commends a project in Albuquerque’s south valley for its successes in encouraging young men

to become active.

The memorial recognizes the south valley male involvement project for its innovative and

creative approaches to reaching out to youth and addressing public health issues.

The south valley male involvement project is encouraged to increase its financial resources and

replicate itself throughout the state.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

There is no fiscal impact

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The south valley male involvement project since 2004 has encouraged young men to become

more closely involved with their communities and families through innovative outreach

integrated with clinical services.

Yung male involvement in sexual reproductive health, including discussions on abstinence and

comprehensive sexual education, information on clinical services and testing and discussion of

risky behaviors, is key to ensuring that young men understand they are mutual contributors to

pregnancy.

Fostering young men's self-respect helps encourage them to respect their partners and the

community as a whole.

The south valley male involvement project has initiated a special bilingual Spanish-English

project focusing on weekly discussion of male issues among 14 to 18 year-old men.

Discussion sessions within the project as well as songs and public service announcements written

by project members have motivated the young men and others to become more involved with

family and community.

Basketball tournaments and teen dances sponsored and organized by the south valley male

involvement project help to combat obesity as well as providing positive resources and healthy

alternatives.

Such social outreach to young men gives them a chance to become active contributors to a sense

of community and to a betterment of community as well as helping the world become safer from

violence.

Decreased rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections are likely to result from

more male involvement in family and community;

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

SM14 relates to:

•

SB124 which will appropriate $2,600,000 from the general fund to the DOH to

develop and implement a statewide teen pregnancy prevention program;

•

SB 280 which will appropriate $701,000 from the general fund to the DOH of

which$32,000 is for the SVMIP.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

The US teen birth rate for teens ages 15-17 decreased by 26% from 1998 to 2004 in comparison

to the New Mexico teen birth rate which decreased by 16% from 1998 to 2004. In 2004, New

Mexico’s teen birth rate was over 1 1/2 times higher than the United States’ teen birth rate. In

2000, there were 3,627 new teen mothers ages 15-19 in New Mexico. In 2004, there were 152

fewer new teen mothers. DOH contributed to this decline. By reducing first teen births by 152,

NM saved $25,840,000.

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The DOH funds various evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education programs,

including male involvement with the South Valley Male Involvement Project (SVMIP), to

reduce New Mexico’s high teen birth rate. The goals of the SVMIP are to:

•

Improve educational and clinical services for men of all ages in Albuquerque’s South

Valley;

•

Reduce risk behaviors that lead to unintended pregnancy, HIV and STDs; and

•

Decrease the prevalence of violence, pregnancy and STDs among teens 15-19 in the

South Valley.

In 2006, the SVMIP provided educational sessions to 3,877 unduplicated individuals and

provided outreach to a total of 5,748.

While birth rates for white teens in New Mexico have decreased by 28.2% from 2000 to 2004,

there was little change in birth rates for Hispanic and American Indian. The birth rate among

Hispanic females has declined less than the rate for all races both in New Mexico and in the

United States. Hispanic females comprise 46% of the female population aged 15-17 but nearly

71% of the births in that age group. In 2004, the birth rate for Hispanic teens ages 15-17 was

nearly four times higher than the rate to white teens. In addition, the American Indian teen birth

rate was 2 1/2 times higher than the white teen birth rate.

DOH believes this memorial will recognize and create awareness for these disparities of the

underserved and underinsured.

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