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Innovation to Impact: Introduction to the Special Issue on Evidence from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
Elizabeth Laferriere1, Nicole Bennett2, Emily Forrester3
1Office of Population Affairs, Washington, DC, USA. Elizabeth.Laferriere@hhs.gov.
Summary
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program has funded innovative projects since 2010, generating evidence-based strategies to reduce teen pregnancy and promote positive youth development. This program continually adapts to improve adolescent sexual health innovation and scaling.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Adolescent Health
- Program Evaluation
Background:
- The federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program has been funded by Congress since 2009 (FY2010).
- TPP programs focus on developing, testing, and evaluating innovations to reduce teen pregnancy, disparities, and risk factors.
- The program has supported various cohorts of innovation and demonstration projects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To document the innovation history and iterations of the TPP Program.
- To synthesize findings from fifteen TPP innovators featured in this special edition.
- To highlight emergent priorities and discuss the program's adaptation in fostering innovation-to-scale projects.
Main Methods:
- Historical documentation of the TPP Program's evolution.
- Synthesis of findings from published TPP innovator projects.
- Analysis of the program's adaptive strategies for innovation and scaling.
Main Results:
- The TPP Program has produced critical insights into equitable public health innovation.
- It has served as a productive contributor of evidence-based TPP innovations for scaling.
- Emergent priorities have been identified based on this federal experiment in adolescent sexual health.
Conclusions:
- The TPP Program has adapted and refined its approach over time.
- The program fosters dynamic innovation-to-scale projects.
- Findings inform future strategies for adolescent sexual health innovation and implementation.
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