Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Achieve Optimal Health

The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) is soliciting applications for projects to rigorously evaluate promising interventions that contribute to adolescent optimal health and prevent teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), behavioral risk factors underlying teen pregnancy, or other associated risk factors. The goal of this initiative is to identify effective interventions focused on body literacy and ensuring transparency and protection of parental rights for future replication by adolescent health practitioners and youth-serving professionals. The OPA intends to make available approximately $8.3 million for an estimated nine grant awards for a period of up to five years. • The primary focus of the project is to conduct rigorous impact and implementation evaluation of promising interventions. • The project should promote body literacy education and ensure transparency and protection of parental rights. • The project should document and package the intervention to be implementation-ready and able to be replicated if found to be effective. • The project should disseminate research findings and lessons learned to inform future studies.