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The National Campaign is pleased to make a limited number of grants each year that hold promise of advancing our organizational mission. Below please find information on some of the organizations and efforts we have supported to date.
Research
A core part of the overall National Campaign as well as its grant-making capacity centers on generating new research and synthesizing existing data and information in new ways.
Guttmacher Institute: Assessing Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge and Beliefs Among Unmarried Young Adults
In collaboration with Field Research, The Guttmacher Institute is conducting a nationally representative survey of 1,500 unmarried women and 1,000 men aged 18-29 to assess young adults’ contraceptive knowledge, attitudes and beliefs.
Child Trends: Contraceptive Histories
Child Trends is conducting original analyses of women’s month-by-month histories of sexual activity and contraceptive use in an effort to provide a more nuanced understanding of the patterns of contraceptive use for women who have children as a result of an unintended pregnancy.
Center for Policy Research: Getting Men Involved in Pregnancy Planning
This project is reviewing and synthesizing an extensive body of information, research and experience about how to engage teenage boys and men in pregnancy planning and prevention.
Child Trends: Generating Actionable Plans to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study with Community College Students and Staff Members
Child Trends, in partnership with Montgomery College (Maryland), is conducting a qualitative study of community college students to explore their pregnancy intentions, contraceptive behavior, and the context and factors associated with their decisions and behavior in both of these areas.
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Innovation
The National Campaign Fund also focuses on fostering and promoting innovative ways to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy. The following four grants have been made to encourage and nurture creative ideas that will draw more people into family planning services (outreach and recruitment) and/or do a better job with them once they are in the system (quality and retention).
Public Health Solutions: Making the Connection
The project’s goal is to provide strong support for the integration of mental health screening and treatment as a way to increase access to mental health services as well as improve contraceptive use among a selected group of high-risk women—both of which will serve to improve their overall health and reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette: Encouraging Innovation in Preventing Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
This 18 month project applies an effective innovation process—design thinking—to address patient outreach, retention, and quality of care challenges shared by Planned Parenthood affiliates. Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette (serving Oregon and southwest Washington) and several sister affiliates in Washington state request will participate in a customized Design Boot Camp at the Stanford University Design School (d.school), and, within 12 months after the Boot Camp, will develop and test one clinical services innovation. If successful, the innovation could be replicated by other affiliates around the country.
Regents of the University of California Bixby Center for Global and Reproductive Health: High Tech Ticklers: Using Technology to Improve Contraceptive Continuation and Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
This project will develop and pilot a cellular telephone text message reminder system for approximately 400 women at 34 Family PACT clinic sites in Sacramento County (California’s publicly funded family planning program) who rely on user-dependent contraception. If proven successful, the system has great potential for nationwide expansion.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc: Minding the Gap: Improving Contraceptive Continuation
The project’s goal is to change the paradigm for contraceptive service delivery at hundreds of Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers across the country by developing ways to make it easier for women to find and continue to use the birth control method that best meets their needs and preferences. The award will assist in creating a patient education tool that helps women switch between contraceptive methods without requiring interaction with a health care provider.
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Action
The National Campaign has funded several action-oriented initiatives focused on unplanned pregnancy with a special emphasis on catalyzing activities with strong potential for lasting well beyond the term of the award.
Delaware Technical and Community College, Montgomery College in Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
The National Campaign Fund has awarded two-year grants to three community colleges to help reduce unplanned pregnancy among their students through a range of activities spanning new uses of online systems to developing materials for new student orientation and more areas as well.
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Healthy Futures Alliance: Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy Project
Support to the Healthy Futures Alliance will help it : (1) develop community support for the issue of preventing unplanned pregnancy in San Antonio and Texas; (2) develop tools and strategies to help young adults avoid unplanned pregnancy; (3) support state policy changes to reduce unplanned pregnancy among young adults; and (4) provide a model for other communities in Texas to follow.
Ibis Reproductive Health and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Family Planning Program: Responsive Health Systems and Empowered Health Consumers: A Strategy to Reduce Unplanned Pregnancy Among Young Adults in Massachusetts
Led by Ibis and the MDPH Family Planning, and with the support of several state-level organizations, the project seeks to improve providers’ responsiveness to young adults’ contraceptive needs, with a particular focus on how the expansion of health insurance statewide has changed access to services for young adults.
West Virginia Community Voices, Inc: Planning for a Healthy Pregnancy and Baby
West Virginia Community Voices, Inc. through its West Virginia Perinatal Partnership project and with direction from a Statewide Advisory Committee of experts, seeks to: raise awareness regarding the Medicaid Family Planning Waiver option, make pregnancy planning a part of the pre- and post-natal in-home visitors program that already exists in the state, and pursue other strategic actions to help address unplanned pregnancy among the 18 – 29 year old population.