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FEDERAL FUNDING NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRESIDENT’S TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION INITIATIVE

 

In his Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget, President Obama proposed a new Teenage Pregnancy Prevention initiative (TPP) that would support evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.   The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) is responsible for implementing and administering this new discretionary grant program and will be awarding competitive contracts and grants to public and private entities to fund medically accurate and age appropriate programs that reduce teen pregnancy and for the Federal costs associated with administration and evaluation.  The teen pregnancy prevention program addresses rising teen pregnancy rates by supporting both the replication of evidence-based models and demonstration programs to develop and test additional models and innovative strategies.
 
SIECUS has summarized the current funding opportunities that are available as part of the TPP are available:
 
 
 
To link directly to the Funding Opportunity Announcements: