A program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro offers an incentive of $1 for every day its teenage girl participants don’t get pregnant. They don’t collect the money until they complete the program and enroll in college. College Bound Sisters also includes a weekly 90-minute meeting where the girls get instruction in abstinence and contraceptive use.

“We talk about abstinence, but it’s not a requirement,” Dr. Hazel Brown, co-director of the program, told FOXNews.com. “We teach decision-making, being responsible and avoiding pregnancy. The meetings are very interactive.”

Bill Albert, chief program officer at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, agrees that creative ways are needed to confront this “very challenging social issue,” but he added, “It makes me a bit uneasy. I do have mixed feelings. It’s hard to pay people to do something that we think they should be doing regardless. It would be like if you didn’t want young people to experiment with marijuana, you’d pay them not to do it.”

To participate in the program, girls must have never been pregnant, be currently enrolled in school, want to go on to college, and have had a sister who gave birth before age 18. Some girls have banked as much as $3,000 for college.