{"id":5461,"date":"2012-02-01T08:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:00:53","slug":"north-country-loses-funding-for-teen-pregnancy-parenting-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/02\/01\/north-country-loses-funding-for-teen-pregnancy-parenting-program\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country loses funding for teen pregnancy\/ parenting program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120201\/NEWS03\/702019934\/\">Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York recently lost  $95,000 <\/a>in Teenage Services Act funding from the state.\u00a0 That means the program to assist pregnant and parenting teenagers has been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper quotes Martha Stahl, vice president of external affairs at NC Planned Parenthood, as saying the cut would help  the state reduce Medicaid costs.\u00a0 Pregnant or parenting teenagers had to be eligible to  receive Medicaid to participate in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, these programs were pretty  self-supporting, and it was very successful, but that was the only  funding to support it,\u201d Stahl tells the Watertown Times.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a Medicaid program, and we  could bill Medicaid for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no longer a specific Planned  Parenthood program for pregnant and parenting teenagers in the North Country, but the newspaper reports that some  participants of the Teenage Services Act program have qualified to  transfer to the agency\u2019s Community Health Worker Program.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think &#8211; is it a good idea to cut money for teen pregnancy and parenting programs, to save money on Medicaid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4803,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}