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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.
Center for Policy Research: Getting Men Involved in Pregnancy Planning
This project reviewed and synthesized an extensive body of information, research and experience about how to engage teenage boys and men in pregnancy planning and prevention.
Child Trends: Contraceptive Histories
Child Trends conducted 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.
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.
Guttmacher Institute: Assessing Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge and Beliefs Among Unmarried Young Adults
In collaboration with Field Research, The Guttmacher Institute conducted 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.
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
NCLR is working to engage other major Latino groups in the United States to help address teen pregnancy. In addition, The National Campaign partnered with the NCLR to summarize and disseminate a nationally representative poll about teen pregnancy that examines subgroup differences and similarities within the Latino community (i.e. country of origin, generational status, language). Supporting materials were developed and a briefing for press, key Latino organizations and community leaders was held.
Urban Institute
The Urban Institute analyzed the correlations of pregnancy intention and the well-being of children born teens and single, young adults as the result of an unplanned pregnancy.
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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).
California Family Health Council (CFHC)
CFHC will develop two 5-minute video vignettes (English- and Spanish-language versions) providing information on long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs). These videos will be designed to inform teenage and young adult clients about LARCs, including mechanisms of action, benefits, and possible complications. Additionally, these videos will be used to train health educators and clinicians in proper counseling techniques.
Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette
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.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc
The project’s goal is to change 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.
Public Health Seattle & King County (PHSKC)
PHSKC is working on increasing the proportion of teens and young women that choose IUDs by addressing both supply and demand. After a needs assessment with 29 non-traditional clinics that serve young women, providers will be trained and provided with logistical support to encourage their ability to provide on-site IUD insertion in various locations. For sites that are still not able to provide on-site insertion, a strong referral system will be established and rely on PHSKC clinics for insertions. Social marketing through www.TeenClinic.com and social networking sites will target potential clients with education and information about long-acting reversible contraception options. PHSKC will also continue education efforts with the target population in schools and community venues.
Public Health Solutions
Public Health Solutions is producing English- and Spanish-language educations videos on the use of long-acting reversible contraception that will be widely disseminated online and tested for effectiveness in changing knowledge and attitudes about these methods of contraception.
Public Health Solutions
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.
University of California Bixby Center
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.
University of California Bixby Center
The Bixby Center will produce a video that addresses the particular concerns of young women about pregnancy prevention and the use of long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs), primarily using the voices and language of their peers. Videos will include:
- basic facts on the risk of pregnancy, emphasizing the high chance of pregnancy among this age group.
- LARC methods, showing how much more effective they are than other contraceptive methods and how simple they are to use.
- concerns about LARC side effects with accurate information and a sense of humor.
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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.
American Association of Community Colleges
AACC is helping community college students address pregnancy planning and prevention and healthy relationships as a way to improve student retention and success. This includes making sub-grants to AACC member colleges to develop curricular and co-curricular content and materials during 2010 that can be readily used by other colleges beginning in 2011. AACC made these grants to the following three colleges through its “Make It Personal: College Completion” (MIPCC) project
- Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta, Georgia
- Hennepin Technical College, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
In a continued partnership with The National Campaign, APHSA is highlighting what major systems, such as welfare, have done and can do regarding teen and unplanned pregnancy. APHSA is working to increase the profile of pregnancy planning and prevention among the leaders they work with, including Medicaid directors, welfare administrators, job training heads, foster care leaders, and others in the field of social science.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA)
Through publications, newsletters, websites, social networks, and trainings, BGCA is highlighting the value of preventing teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among single, young adults, targeting both parents and Club members.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)
A collaboration between the Division of Adolescent Medicine at CCHMC and the Hamilton County Juvenile Court (HCJC), this effort focuses on males in the juvenile court system. The program is based on and adapted from the Man2Man program, which was developed by the Family Planning Council in Philadelphia, PA and address males knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding pregnancy, STIs, relationships, and parenting. A job readiness component is also included.
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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ETR Associates
ETR Associates is developing a new sex and relationship education curriculum for young adults that is based on sound theory and that incorporates strategies that have been previously shown to be effective.
Healthy Futures Alliance
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
Led by Ibis and the MDPH Family Planning, and with the support of several state-level organizations, the project focuses on ways 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.
National Association of Evangelicals
Through a series of papers, projects, and meetings, the NAE seeks to spark productive conversation, deliberation, and action among evangelicals regarding sexuality, healthy family formation, and abortion reduction. The long term goal of the project is to decrease polarization and increase communication and cooperation across many sectors.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
NCJFCJ conducted a survey of its members, connected The National Campaign to the judiciary, involved judges from Model dependency and Model Delinquency Courts, produced and disseminated technical assistance information about teen and unplanned pregnancy, and provided input from judges on the issue of teen pregnancy.
The National Council for Student Development (NCSD)
In an effort to reach older teens and young adults through community colleges, NCSD is producing, piloting, and disseminating content that can be incorporated into orientation, first year experience courses, and college success courses. Additionally, NCSD is surveying its members and promoting best practices for educating student services professional and students about healthy relationships and reducing unplanned pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood of Montana
The goal of this project is to raise awareness and build partnerships in Montana to address the state’s increasing teen and unplanned birth rates, with special attention to Native American communities and older teens.
Planned Parenthood South Florida and the treasure Coast, Inc. (PPSFTC)
The goal of this project is to develop and pilot a program that can help youth aging out of foster care (ages 18-23) prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy. PPSFTC is convening leaders in the fields of trauma resolution, health education, and program evaluation to create The Empower Project. A one-week, knowledge- and skills-based training for case managers will be created along with an educational curriculum for youth.
University of California Bixby Center
The UCSF Bixby Center is coordinating the production of a short monthly feature written by USCF-affiliated providers for SexReally.com. The features focus on issues regarding contraception that providers often discuss with their young patients, including information on side effects and the benefits of contraceptive use.
West Virginia Community Voices, Inc
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.