The new year to come is the last year intended for the president's program, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) 2010-2015. This program was participated by the centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the federal Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), and aims to "reduce teenage pregnancy and address disparities in teen pregnancy and birth rates".
Five key components being through this program model are-
Component 1: Community Mobilization and Sustainability
Engaging all sectors of the population in a communitywide effort to address teen pregnancy prevention. Community mobilization supports the sustainability of teen pregnancy prevention efforts by empowering community members and groups to take action to facilitate change. This component includes mobilizing necessary resources, disseminating information, generating support, and fostering cooperation across public and private sectors in the community.
Component 2: Evidence-Based Programs
Providing teens with evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, including youth development and curriculum-based programs that reduce teen pregnancy and associated risk factors.
Component 3: Increasing Youth Access to Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Care Services
Ensuring clinical partners are providing teen friendly, culturally competent reproductive health care services that are easily accessible to all youth in the community, and establishing linkages between teen pregnancy prevention program partners and clinics that serve at risk youth from the target community.
Component 4: Stakeholder Education
Educating civic leaders, parents, and other community members about evidence-based strategies to reduce teen pregnancy and improve adolescent reproductive health, including needs and available resources in the target community.
Component 5: Working with Diverse Communities
Raising awareness of community partners about the link between teen pregnancy and social determinants of health, and ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate programs and reproductive health care services are available to youth.
By addressing these core components, the following performance measures are expected within five years:
Youth outcomes:
- Reduce teen birth rates by 10% in targeted communities.
- Reduce teen pregnancies in targeted communities.
- Increase the percentage of youth who abstain from or delay sexual intercourse.
- Increase the consistent and correct use of condoms and other effective methods of contraception among sexually active youth.
Program, practices, and community support outcomes:
- Increase the number and percentage of youth within the target community who receive evidence-based and evidence-informed programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
- Increase the number and percentage of sexually active youth within the target community who are referred to and use clinical services.
- Increase adoption of state, local, or communitywide health, education, and youth service strategies supportive of adolescent reproductive health by educating relevant stakeholders on evidence-based and evidence-informed teen pregnancy prevention approaches and environmental supports.
- Through training and technical assistance, increase the capacity of the target community partners to select, implement, and evaluate evidence-based and evidence-informed programs with fidelity and with informed program adaptation as appropriate.
Source: www.CDC.gov
