TPP Tier 1 Grant Resource page

According to the Office of Population Affairs

The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to have a significant impact on improving the optimal health of adolescents and reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through saturation of communities with the greatest needs and disparities using a systems thinking approach* to replicate effective programs with fidelity.

The goal of this FOA will be realized through: 

• Ensuring areas of greatest need are targeted in an effort to promote equity in reaching optimal health and preventing teen pregnancy and STIs 
• Utilizing a systems thinking approach to identify multiple leverage points to maximize impact on promoting optimal health and preventing teen pregnancy and STIs 
• Replicating with fidelity effective programs and supportive services that are culturally appropriate, age appropriate, medically accurate, and trauma informed. 
• Applying the power of youth and community voice to ensure the project is of the highest quality and best fit for the community(ies) and population(s) to be served. 
• Monitoring, evaluating, and improving the project; and using key performance measures to document the project. 
• Communicating and disseminating information, successes, lessons learned, and knowledge. 

*Systems Thinking Approach: Programs and services should not solely focus on risk factors but also on protective factors by integrating, to the best extent possible, the TAG (The Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow Model)  five essentials for adolescent health: (1) Positive connections with supportive people; (2) Safe and secure places to live, learn, work and play; (3) Access to high quality and teen friendly health care; (4) Opportunities to engage as learners, leaders, team members, and workers; and (5) Coordinated adolescent and family centered services.