Cooperative Agreement TP2AH000085

Award Date 9/15/23
Completion Date 9/14/28
Dollars Obligated $3M
Funding Federal Agency
Office of Adolescent Health
Awarding Federal Agency
Office of Grants Management
Federal Grant Program
93.297
Assistance Type
Cooperative Agreement
Place of Performance
Louisiana, USA
Similar Awards
This $588,655 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct the "Adaptations and Impacts Understanding Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs" (AIM-UP) project. The AIM-UP project aims to advance the understanding of how evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs can be effectively adapted and...
This $267,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a study to assess the clinical and implementation outcomes of a point-of-care sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing strategy to improve HIV prevention service delivery in adolescents. The research will be conducted by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The study aims to evaluate how a new point-of-care testing modality for gonorrhea and...
This $1,338,168 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program) supports research to assess the individual and combined effects of prenatal and early childhood programming on preventing child maltreatment. The primary awardee, the University of Notre Dame, will evaluate two preventative programs: the Pregnant Moms' Empowerment Program (PMEP) delivered during pregnancy, and...
This Project Grant awarded by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the Research and Evaluation (R & E) Program (CFDA 16.026) provides $496,834 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop and pilot test a prevention approach tailored for sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY) and their caregivers. The project aims to address disparities in adolescent relationship abuse among SGDY. The team will collaboratively co-design an intervention informed by theories...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,500,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Personal Responsibility Education Program (CFDA 93.092), supports the "EMPOWERING FUTURES: PROMOTING LIFE SKILLS FOR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES" initiative. The primary objective is to educate youth between 10-19 years old, as well as pregnant and parenting youth under 21, on abstinence and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $186,319 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to adapt and test an intervention to reduce HIV-related stigma among pregnant and postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa. The key activities include: 1) Describing the stigma experiences and mental health impacts of women living with HIV during...
This $262,627 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) supports the development and testing of a novel peer navigator mHealth intervention to increase uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and modern contraception among female university students in Zambia. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Adapting an existing app, PEBRA, using human-centered design and qualitative methods to create a...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded a $445,276 Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program grant to Pro Youth & Families Inc., a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California. The 3-year project, running from Sep 30, 2024 to Sep 29, 2027, will provide evidence-based educational and intervention programs designed to promote youth wellness, build life skills, and reduce risky behavioral patterns among adolescents,...
This $844,564 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund research to develop an implementation strategy for linking adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) options, including long-acting PrEP modalities. The grant will support formative work, including qualitative interviews and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports the adaptation and evaluation of the Safe Dates for Teen Mothers (SDTM) program for virtual delivery. The $228,140 award, with a period of performance from August 2024 to July 2026, aims to (1) adapt the existing SDTM curriculum for virtual implementation and assess feasibility and acceptability,...

RIGOROUS EVALUATION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT EDUCATION (EE)/MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI) TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION INTERVENTION - UNSTAINED IS AN ENTERTAINMENT-EDUCATION (EE)/MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI) VIDEO INTERVENTION DESIGNED BY PCI MEDIA FOR YOUTH AGES 14-19 WHO ARE AT RISK FOR OR INVOLVED IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM (JJS). IT IS AN INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL INTERVENTION DURING WHICH USERS WATCH A SERIES OF SHORT, SOAP-OPERA STYLE VIDEOS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO ENGAGE VIEWERS IN THE CHARACTERS AND STORYLINES WHILE COMMUNICATING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) MESSAGES AND MODELING HEALTHY BEHAVIORS. EACH VIEWING SESSION IS FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF, FACILITATED MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING-FOCUSED DISCUSSION. THESE DISCUSSIONS CONCENTRATE ON THE PARTICIPANTS' SRH GOALS AND MOTIVATION TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR, LEVERAGING THE EE STORYLINE TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DIALOGUE AND RELATE THE PARTICIPANTS' LIVES TO THE CHARACTERS' EXPERIENCES. EE IS A PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO USE IN LOW-RESOURCED SYSTEMS AND WITH YOUTH WHO ARE DIFFICULT TO ENGAGE. THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EE/MI-BASED INTERVENTIONS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUTH INVOLVED IN THE JJS OR AT RISK FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE JJS DUE TO EXPOSURE TO TRAUMA, AND THESE YOUTH ARE AT HIGHER RISK FOR TEEN PREGNANCY AND STIS. THIS PROPOSAL PAIRS SEVERAL HIGHLY QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING PCI MEDIA, THE DEVELOPER OF UNSTAINED, AND THE EXTERNAL, INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR, THE POLICY & RESEARCH GROUP (PRG). YOUTH WILL BE RECRUITED THROUGH PARTNERS SUCH AS THE SAN JUAN COUNTY JUVENILE SERVICES (SJCJS) AND ALL FAITHS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER, AND USING INNOVATIVE ONLINE STRATEGIES THAT PRG HAS SUCCESSFULLY EMPLOYED TO RECRUIT HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS, SUCH AS YOUTH EXPOSED TO TRAUMA. THE PROPOSED RIGOROUS EVALUATION DESIGN IS A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (RCT).

Posted 8/18/23, 12:00 AM