Centers for Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Adolescent Health Promotion Research

 
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    CFDA#

    93.500
     

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

    Summary

    The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of adolescents. OAH leads through promoting strength-based approaches, bolstering multi-sector engagement, and bringing in youth voices to support healthy development and transitions to productive adulthood. OAH supports research, services, prevention and health promotion activities, training, education, partnership engagement, national planning and information dissemination activities
     
    This notice solicits applications from qualified organizations for teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent health promotion research center grants. These centers will conduct, synthesize and translate research into practice for the prevention of teen pregnancy and promotion of adolescent health and in support of OAH's priorities and mission. The Centers are expected to address important and relevant topic areas in pregnancy prevention and adolescent health and to be a national leader in one of five priority areas affecting teen pregnancy. The priority areas are:
    • safe and supportive environments,
    • healthy relationships,
    • meaningful connections to supportive adults,
    • engaging youth and families, and
    • youth in out-of-home care and foster care systems.
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    Successful applications will address one priority area:
    • Safe and supportive environments - Ensuring youth feel safe and supported in their environment is essential to teen pregnancy prevention efforts as this can enhance self-esteem, self-confidence, and autonomy, which will equip youth with skills and knowledge necessary for healthy decision-making. Youth who have been exposed to violence are more likely to become teen parents, with those who have experienced physical and sexual abuse more likely to experience a repeat pregnancy. Ensuring environments are positive, safe, supportive, and healthy for youth and their families includes being inclusive of all youth, including LGBTQ youth, applying Positive Youth Development practices, and using a trauma-informed approach.
    • Healthy Relationships - During adolescence, youth learn how to form safe and healthy relationships with friends, parents, teachers, and romantic partners. These relationships influence youths' development and inform how they manage other relationships. Protective factors that contribute to a decrease in risky sexual behaviors have been identified through research. For example, teens are more likely to use condoms or contraceptives when their romantic partners support their use. Communication between partners about contraception, STIs, methods of preventing infection, and sexual histories increases likelihood of condom use and use of other forms of contraception. Peer relationships also play a role in adolescent sexual behavior. Teens are more likely to use condoms if they believe that their friends support condom use. Additionally, adolescents that report feeling close to others in school, living in a two-parent home, and participation in volunteering or community service are less likely to report an adolescent pregnancy.
    • Meaningful Connections to Supportive Adults - Positive youth development research has shown that youth benefit from positive relationships with caring adults. Teens are less likely to have sex at an early age and have sex less frequently when they have considerable parental support and feel connected to their parents. Typically, those caring adults are parents, but in many cases, youth benefit from relationships with other adults to either supplement or substitute for relationships with their parents. In some cases, teens are more comfortable discussing sensitive topics, such as sex, with someone other than a parent. When teens are involved in their communities and have mentors, a supportive adult other than a parent, they are less likely to engage in sexual behavior.
    • Engaging Youth and Families - Youth engagement occurs when youth are meaningfully involved in a program and take an active role in their own development. Engaging youth is important because research tells us that enhancing protective factors, such as youths' belief that adults care about them as individuals, is important for avoiding risky behaviors. Families also influence teens' sexual risk behavior. A teen is more likely to have early sex, unprotected sex, and become pregnant, or cause a pregnancy, when their parents or siblings express values or model behavior consistent with early childbearing or sexual risk-taking. Parental disapproval of sexual risk behaviors and support of contraceptive use are protective factors. Engaging parents and families is important to teen pregnancy prevention efforts because youth report that parents influence their decisions about sex. Research shows that connection and communication with family is associated with protective sexual behaviors.
    • Youth in Out-of-Home Care - Youth in out-of-home care are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors (e.g., unprotected sexual intercourse, anal sex, sexual activity while using drugs or alcohol) and more likely to engage in early sexual activity. Foster youth may also be more likely to have multiple sexual partners, and engage in transactional sex. Teen girls who are in foster care are 2.5 times more likely than their counterparts who are not in foster care to become pregnant by age 19. Young women in foster care are also more likely to experience a repeat pregnancy, however, young women who remain in foster care after age 18, instead of aging out, have a reduced likelihood of becoming pregnant. Caseworkers have expressed a desire to provide more services to prevent pregnancy among the youth with whom they work, but express that more training is needed to be able to provide educational services on this topic. More research is needed to understand what strategies child welfare agencies are using to address youths' sexual health needs and the outcomes of any interventions being implemented with this population.

    Contacts

    Dixie Perez

    Dixie Perez
    Office of Grants Management
    200 Independence Avenue, S.W
    Washington, DC 20201
    (240) 453-8822
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are:
    • State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals)
    • Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
    • Public nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
    • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
    • Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall islands (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
    • Profit organizations
    • Private nonprofit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals)
    • Faith-based organizations and American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American (AI/AN/NA)

    Deadline Details

    Letters of Intent are to be submitted by 5 p.m. on January 31, 2017. Applications are to be submitted by March 24, 2017 via www.grants.gov.

    Award Details

    Approximately $1,500,000 is available in total funding. Up to 3 awards will be granted of up to $500,000. Grant period is 12 months for up to three years. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2017. OAH will fund one cooperative agreement per priority area. Applicants should state for which priority area of the 5 listed they are applying.

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