This learning guide is designed to connect personal, family, and job responsibilities for adults and out-of-school youth in economically depressed areas of the state (including transitional ex-offenders and corrections populations) so that these individuals learn to manage and balance these aspects of their lives in order to prepare for or continue successful employment. This learning guide contains four competency units that provide information for young people and parents about preventing teen pregnancy. The competency units cover the following topics: (1) predicting the consequences for self, partner, and families in case of pregnancy; (2) explaining the reproductive systems; (3) evaluating methods of birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; and (4) determining the risks associated with sexually transmitted diseases and the procedures in diagnosis and treatment. Each competency unit consists of learner outcomes, key ideas, definitions, teaching strategies and methods, and suggested learning activities. Twenty-one supplements include information and activity sheets on the following: feelings about being a parent; parenting costs; readiness for parenting; parenting and life plans; child rearing task costs; parenthood: when and why; effects a baby can have; the juggling act; case studies; the reproductive systems; myths or facts about preventing pregnancy; birth control choices; birth control methods; sexually-transmitted diseases; and signs and symptoms of having a sexually transmitted disease. A bibliography lists 27 references. The Illinois goals for world-class education for the 21st century also are included. (KC)