WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign's 'HBCU of the Month' of July, Winston-Salem State University has received $400,000 grant to support a program to reduce teen pregnancy in Montgomery County, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

The program, which is a partnership between WSSU and Montgomery County Schools, is directed at middle-school students, WSSU said in a news release. It is funded by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services' teen pregnancy prevention initiative. The program will begin in August.

The program, entitled Draw the Line, Respect the Line, is a three-part health intervention, said Kineka Hull, director of academic services in the WSSU School of Health Science and an instructor in the school' healthcare management program. "The program encourages youth to practice abstinence, to delay having sexual relationships, reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, and prevent pregnancy."

While teen pregnancy rate have decreased nationwide and the rates in North Carolina are at a historic law, the teen pregnancy rate in Montgomery County was third overall in the state in 2012.