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reduction in out-of-wedlock pregnancies and encouragement of integrated two-parent families. The following are examples of services available within Nevada. Supportive service programs help students to acquire the skills and competencies they need to find a career pathway out of poverty. These programs assist with short-term supportive services needed to remove barriers to education and/or employment. Summer and after school tutoring programs provide services to those children with family income that is below 200% of the federal poverty level. Examples of services provided include educational and life skills assistance, and other activities that support youth development, social skills, problem-solving skills, and support a family’s work and life balance. School tutoring programs mentor and enrich the lives of children and youth to improve educational attainment for those children whose family income is below 185% of the federal poverty level. TANF Purpose: 3) Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and 4) Encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Type: TANF pro-family. 18.10 Pregnancy Prevention Programs (#18) Programs that provide sex education or abstinence education and family planning services to individuals, couples, and families in an effort to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies. The DWSS provides support for pregnancy prevention education and abstinence programs and family planning through the Nevada Public Health Foundation STARS program provided to TANF and other benefit program participants. This class has been expanded to not only include TANF teen parents but also other pregnant and parenting teens receiving other forms of assistance such as Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Child Welfare. The 1-day STARS class places emphasis on education, employment, success in the workplace, decision-making, money management and health, such as birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Other programs may include the material above as well as family and social skills, parenting skills or a combination of material focused on the successful outcome of future self- sufficiency. Other examples of services provided by Nevada’s pregnancy prevention programs are listed below. Pregnancy prevention services through Douglas County Community Health Nurse Family Planning program, provides family planning courses, birth control, prevention education, counseling, and health education to youth and adults below 125% of the federal poverty level. Nye Communities Coalition Family Planning program provides birth control, healthy relationship courses, and communicable disease prevention education and counseling, and health education, including pregnancy prevention brochures, etc. TANF Purpose: 3) Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Type: TANF and State MOE.