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TPP Innovation Grants Show Positive Evaluation Results
OPA’s TPP program is a national, evidence-based program that funds diverse organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy across the United States. OPA funds the exploration, development, testing, and rigorous evaluation of new and innovative interventions to significantly reduce teen pregnancy disparities and advance the field of adolescent sexual health. Investing in teen pregnancy prevention programs helps adolescents reach their full potential.
Overview
“Innovation is the ability to generate and execute new ideas—incremental, evolutionary, or revolutionary—and it starts with creativity. Creativity is the ability to look past the obvious—to transcend traditional ways of seeing the world to create something new.” - from IDEO
Innovation in the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) refers to a community-driven and disciplined process of finding solutions to some of our most complex public health challenges. It also reflects a broad spectrum of new or adapted products, programming, strategies, approaches, interventions, policies, and practices that propel our mission of advancing health across the reproductive lifespan. OPA embeds innovation values and methods in all we do, but we especially promote it in and across our Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) and Title X family planning grant programs. OPA convenes, builds community, and makes connections across our diverse innovators.
- Innovation Projects: OPA funds grants, cooperative agreements, and prize challenges that support community-based innovations to improve health outcomes.
- Learning and Dissemination: OPA shares learnings with the field through journal articles, videos, conferences, and more.
- More OPA Innovation Initiatives: Learn more about OPA’s growing network of innovators.
Innovation Projects
In May 2023, OPA convened 50 innovation teams from the TPP Program, Title X, and our research and evaluation grants to build relationships, workshop their innovations, and fine tune their design skills. Four showcase videos resulted from that event. Watch our compilation video to learn more about how OPA integrates innovation into our grant programs. Watch the other three video shorts to learn more specifically about innovations for engaging and supporting families, advancing adolescent health equity, and improving health care access and service delivery.
Learning and Dissemination
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Prevention Science Supplemental Issue: Evidence from the TPP Program's Experiment with Innovation
OPA is excited to share the Special Issue on Evidence from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Experiment with Innovation, our first-ever journal supplement focused on innovation in the TPP program. Our special supplement encompasses 15 articles from innovation grant recipients over the years, highlighting critical findings related to innovation impacts, implementation science, network development, evaluation-readiness, intervention development, and more. It also includes an introduction from OPA that explores how the TPP program adapted and refined its approach for fostering dynamic innovation-to-scale projects, as well as a special commentary from the Partnership for Public Service.
Explore all the open access articles below:
- Innovation to Impact: Introduction to the Special Issue on Evidence from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Experiment with Innovation
- Developing Strategies to Monitor and Evaluate a Network Approach to Facilitating Innovations in Sexual Health Education Programs for Youth with Disabilities: Lessons from Year 1 of the SexEdVA Disability-Inclusive Sexual Health Network (DSHN)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities: a Mixed Methods Study of Professionals' Practices and Needs
- Innovation in Sexuality and Relationship Education in Child Welfare: Shifting Toward a Focus on Ongoing Conversations, Connection, and Consent
- Using Human-Centered Design Strategies to Identify Unmet Adolescent Sexual Health Wants and Needs
- Catalyzing Technology-Based Innovation in Teen Pregnancy Prevention: an Implementation Model and Findings from a Human Centered-Design Initiative
- Adapting a Counseling-Plus-mHealth Intervention for the Virtual Environment to Reduce Sexual and Reproductive Health Risk Among Young Women with Depression
- "I Need to Get My Culture Back": Youth and Provider Perspectives on Integrating Culturally Based Approaches into Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Addressing Evaluation Barriers with Early Innovation Development for Adolescent - Focused Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention
- Implementation Fidelity and Theory-Informed Dose Effects of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native American Youth
- Opportunities and Challenges to Linkage to Housing in the Context of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Program for Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Comparing Virtual and In-Person Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Promotion Program in High Schools with Large Latino Populations
- Randomized Trial of a Sexual Health Video Intervention for Black and Hispanic Adolescent Females
- High School FLASH Sexual Health Education Curriculum: LGBTQ Inclusivity Strategies Reduce Homophobia and Transphobia
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Respecting the Circle of Life Project on Condom Use and Contraception Self-efficacy Among American Indian Youth
- Subgroup Analyses of Girl2Girl, a Text Messaging-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Sexual Minority Girls: Results from a National RCT
- Toward an Effective Innovation Framework for Federal Grant-Making: an Exploration into OPA's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program