Project Grant TPEAH000001

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Population Affairs awarded a $1,972,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD) under the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program (CFDA 93.297). The project, titled "PROJECT REACH: ADVANCING EQUITY IN ADOLESCENT HEALTH," aims to improve adolescent health, wellness, and equity in Oklahoma County through interventions in school, clinic, and community settings. Over 4,500 youth aged...

This federal Project Grant award of $228,140 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support the adaptation and preliminary testing of the Safe Dates for Teen Mothers (SDTM) program for virtual delivery to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) among pregnant and parenting teens. The award will fund the adaptation of the original SDTM program, which has demonstrated efficacy in preventing...

This Project Grant award of $681,884 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a longitudinal study on the life course impacts of reduced access to contraception in Texas. The key objectives are to: Expand an individual-level longitudinal dataset, Reproduction in People's Lives (RIPL), which links comprehensive Census and IRS data to track women's fertility and human...

The Health Care Education & Training, Inc. (HCET) was awarded a $739,499 five-year Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health under the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program (CFDA 93.297). The "Indiana Connected and Supported Teens (IN-CAST) Project" will provide evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs to 2,750 adolescents aged 14-19 in the state of Indiana, with a focus on youth in foster care and the...

The University of Tennessee was awarded a $243,030 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant, titled "Couple-Based Prenatal Contraceptive Education Program for Economically Marginalized Families", aims to develop and pilot test a couple-based multi-level contraceptive education program called "Planning Together" to improve consistent...

This Project Grant award, valued at $1,338,168, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award will support a multi-site, randomized controlled trial to assess the individual and combined contributions of prenatal and postnatal programming in preventing child maltreatment. The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of two prevention programs: the Pregnant...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $588,655.00 and awarded on September 20, 2024, is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award, titled "Adaptations and Impacts Understanding Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs" (AIM-UP), aims to advance the understanding of adaptations to evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs across four key areas: system...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $994,004 to Boston Medical Center Corporation (BMC) to engage adolescents, young adults, families, youth providers, pharmacists, and people who use drugs to generate insights for developing overdose prevention interventions tailored to youth. The key activities include: 1) Exploring perceptions of overdose risk, drug supply, and safety...

This Project Grant award of $149,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (CFDA 93.865) program aims to examine the impact of longitudinal patterns of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. The research will utilize innovative analytic methods applied to longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to: 1) uncover patterns of...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop a 6-month short course titled "Trauma-Informed Data Science and Digital Health Technologies to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Among Pregnant/Postpartum Women." The $433,722 award will fund the training of researchers in big data analytics, digital health tool development, and ethical...