Home > News > Evidence-based pregnancy prevention grant
Evidence-based pregnancy prevention grant
1st of October 2010
The need for pregnancy prevention among youth in DC is profound, and the city’s Ward 8 accounts for 30% of births to child mothers. News is spreading fast about our successful bid to the federal government to implement an evidence-based pregnancy prevention program to address this problem.
SBY will use the rigorously evaluated Teen Outreach Program (TOP) to decrease the incidence of pregnancy among students of Ballou Senior High School over the next five years. The first year will be devoted to planning, training, needs assessment, capacity-building and piloting TOP. During each subsequent service implementation year, 500 9th to 12th graders will be served through school-day sessions and through after-school programming at Ballou. The TOP model incorporates service learning and this project’s Community Service Manager will coordinate a wide range of service learning opportunities. Though all direct service and capacity building activities will be determined by needs assessment and planning processes and will be continuously modified to meet the emerging needs of youth to be served, SBY will focus on the provision of outcome-oriented, TOP model services which have demonstrated efficacy in reducing teen pregnancy risks while increasing civic engagement and improving students’ academic outcomes.
For some background information about the federal government’s science-based approach to pregnancy prevention, check out today’s Associated Press story by clicking here.
Our new partnership with the Department of Health & Human Services and Ballou High will be complemented by a range of health promotion services which Sasha Bruce has been delivering at our programs, in clients’ homes and on the streets for many years. To learn more about our health services, check out our POWER Program, and sign-up for its Twitter and FaceBook feeds.