Cooperative Agreement TP2AH000090
- This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $1,577,585.00 and effective July 1, 2025, was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) (CFDA 93.092). The award recipient, Child Trends, Incorporated, will develop and implement sexual health education and youth development initiatives targeting youth between 10 and 19 years old, with a focus on pregnant...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $100,000 to North Carolina State University to develop improved parent-child communication technologies and reduce healthcare costs associated with sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents. Specifically, the award funds an I-Corps project from June 15, 2022 to May 31, 2023 to create digital health technologies like wearable devices and personalized medicine...
- The Center for Advancing Innovation, Inc. was awarded a $2.49 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024) to launch the Global Health Innovation Challenge. Over three years, the Center will source and launch over 60 high-growth startups in the Washington D.C. metro area to address global health threats using technology. The startups will focus on preventing, diagnosing, treating and...
- The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Northwestern University a $4,122,304 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 23, 2022. The grant will fund the implementation and testing of the Supporting Transitions to Primary Care Among Under-Resourced, Postpartum Women strategy through August 31, 2025. Commonly known as STEP-UP,...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports an effectiveness-implementation trial of the "I-CAN" intervention to improve access to and use of family planning services among women in rural areas. The I-CAN intervention trains and deploys experienced contraceptive users as "mentors" to provide...
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), has awarded a $100,000 Project Grant (R21HD113894) to Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT), a woman-owned small business in Durham, North Carolina. The grant will fund a 2-year project to examine parent-adolescent communication and shared decision-making regarding participation in pediatric clinical trials. The project will use videotaped observations, questionnaires, and interviews...
- The National Science Foundation awarded $304,558 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. to design and implement an eight-week entrepreneurial training program. The program will provide approximately 100 educational and learning technology research teams with resources and tools to advance their innovations from the lab to the market. Specifically, the grantee will offer curriculum based on...
- The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750) to the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) to launch the Innovation in Action Challenge Fund (INNOVACTION 2.0). INNOVACTION 2.0 will provide business training to hundreds of youth throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to create youth-led entrepreneurship initiatives that support reducing environmental impacts, climate risks, emissions, and energy use. YABT...
- This $712,096 federal Project Grant was awarded on May 1, 2025 by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant funds the development of "Talk Parenting" (TP), a smart speaker application that aims to provide in-situ support to parents in building healthy routines and addressing behavioral challenges with their young children. The grant...
- This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a multi-institution collaborative effort to develop a research and innovation ecosystem that leverages external partnerships to shape the STEM talent pipeline and workforce development. The "LIGHT UP" collaborative, comprised of six higher education institutions in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, aims to establish a...
HEALTHY TEEN NETWORK INCUBATOR INNOVATION HUB: "IN/TEND" - THE HEALTHY TEEN NETWORK INNOVATION INCUBATOR HUB ENVISIONS A WORLD THAT AFFIRMS AND CELEBRATES EVERY YOUNG PERSON FOR WHO THEY ARE AND ENSURES THAT THEY HAVE THE AGENCY, OPPORTUNITY, AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PRIORITIZE THEIR BODIES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND FUTURES. WE HAVE NAMED OUR HUB IN/TEND: THE PLAY ON WORDS CALLS TO MIND "INNOVATION," "INCUBATOR," AND "INTENTION" TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE WILL BE A CONDUIT FOR TRANSFORMING UNJUST SYSTEMS BY EMBRACING PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND DESIGN, AND WE "TEND" OR "CARE" FOR THE INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT TEAMS (IDT) TO BUILD THEIR INNOVATION CAPACITY AND DEVELOP PROTOTYPES. OUR HUB WILL BE A VIBRANT ECOSYSTEM BRINGING TOGETHER DREAMERS, DOERS, INNOVATORS, AND CHANGE-MAKERS WHO STRETCH AND PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF IMAGINATION TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ADOLESCENT HEALTH. WE WILL BE GUIDED IN OUR WORK BY OUR INNOVATION APPROACH, WHICH WEAVES TOGETHER THE PRINCIPLES HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN (HCD) AND LIBERATORY DESIGN (LD). WE WILL CHALLENGE NORMS, AMPLIFY DIVERSE VOICES, AND PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY, CONNECTING A COMMUNITY OF DISRUPTORS, TO ENSURE OUR WORK REFLECTS THE NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES OF ALL YOUNG PEOPLE, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. WE WILL FOSTER A CULTURE OF INNOVATION ROOTED IN EQUITY THAT EMBRACES THE BELIEF IN UNIVERSAL CREATIVITY, ENCOURAGES EXPERIMENTATION AND ITERATION, VALUES DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES, CONSIDERS CONSTRAINTS AS CATALYSTS, AND REMAINS ADAPTIVE AND RESPONSIVE TO SYSTEMIC INEQUITY AND THE NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES. OUR GOAL IS TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY AND ENHANCE THE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) AND WELL-BEING OF ADOLESCENTS BY INTENTIONALLY CULTIVATING IDTS TO DEVELOP CUTTING-EDGE INNOVATIONS. GROUNDED BY OUR VISION AND INNOVATION CULTURE, AND IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS (OPA), WE WILL EXPAND WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO IMPROVE SRH OUTCOMES, PROMOTE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, AND ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY FOR YOUTH, THEIR FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES. WE WILL BE AN EXPERT INTERMEDIARY, SUPPORTING MULTIPLE COHORTS OF DIVERSE IDTS TO DEVELOP, TEST, AND REFINE PROTOTYPES OF INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES. IN/TEND WILL ENRICH THE BROADER TPP CONTINUUM AND ADVANCE THE MISSION OF THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HEALTH (OASH) AND OPA, AS WE SUPPORT IDTS IN DISCOVERY, EXPLORING GAPS AND USER NEEDS, IDENTIFYING EXISTING ASSETS AND STRENGTHS, AND BUILDING IDEAS THROUGH TO PROTOTYPE USING PARTICIPATORY METHODS, IN PURSUIT OF INNOVATIONS AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO REDUCE TEEN PREGNANCY, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS (STIS), OR ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS, AND PROMOTE POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.9m | 8/30/25 | ||
| Not listed | $1.9m | 8/27/24 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 9/28/23 | ||
| Not listed | $1.9m | 8/18/23 | ||
| Not listed | $1.9m | 8/18/23 |