Effectiveness of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Designed Specifically for Young Males | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity (RFA-DP-15-007) is a CDC-led cooperative agreement, developed in collaboration with the HHS Office of Adolescent Health, focused on building stronger evidence about teen pregnancy prevention approaches that are designed specifically for young males. The core goal is to rigorously test innovative interventions for males ages 15 to 24 that aim to reduce the risk of fathering a teen pregnancy, with an emphasis on programs that can realistically be delivered in real-world settings such as clinics, schools, community organizations, youth-serving programs, or correctional environments. The announcement makes clear that the work is meant to move beyond general youth pregnancy prevention by centering young men as the intended participants and by generating high-quality evidence about what works for them.

The program planned to fund up to three projects, each lasting five years, with total estimated funding of about $10 million and an award ceiling of $1,000,000. A key requirement is that at least one of the funded projects must evaluate an intervention specifically targeted to younger males ages 15 to 19, ensuring that the portfolio includes work directly relevant to adolescents rather than only older young adults. Because this is a cooperative agreement, awardees should expect substantial federal involvement typical of that mechanism, often including collaboration on monitoring, performance expectations, and the use and dissemination of resulting products.

Applicants were asked to apply under one of two pathways based on how ready their intervention is for a rigorous evaluation. Component A is for an existing intervention that already has promising process data and/or early indications of effectiveness, but has not yet been tested through a rigorous evaluation design. Component B is for an intervention that is partially developed and needs to be finalized before it can be evaluated; in other words, the project would include a development or refinement phase followed by a formal test. In both components, the expectation is not just to implement programming, but to put the intervention through an experimental evaluation approach, indicating a preference for designs capable of strong causal inference (for example, randomized or similarly robust experimental methods).

The work is structured around two required sets of activities. Part I is the evaluation work: conducting a rigorous experimental evaluation of the intervention and, if it proves effective, packaging the intervention so it can be replicated. A major deliverable is a final intervention package, including materials needed for implementation, that must be provided to CDC and OAH. The announcement explicitly notes that CDC and OAH must be able to reproduce, publish, and otherwise use the resulting materials for public health purposes, and to authorize others to do so, consistent with applicable grant regulations. That emphasis signals a strong federal interest in dissemination and scaling of proven approaches rather than leaving materials proprietary or difficult for other communities to adopt.

Part II focuses on training and technical assistance (TTA), which is mandatory alongside the evaluation. The intent is to ensure both high-quality implementation and a high-quality evaluation by building capacity where it is needed. The FOA distinguishes between internal TTA (support tailored to the grantee organization and project staff) and external TTA (support tailored to the project’s partner organizations, such as schools, clinics, or community-based partners responsible for delivering or supporting the intervention). Applications had to address both Part I and Part II to be considered responsive, meaning a proposal that only offered evaluation without a clear TTA strategy, or only offered programming without rigorous evaluation, would not meet the announcement’s requirements.

Eligibility was broad and included a range of institution types and organizational categories, such as Hispanic-serving institutions, HBCUs, tribally controlled colleges and universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, eligible federal agencies, US territories or possessions, faith-based and community-based organizations, regional organizations, bona fide agents, and federally funded research and development centers. There was no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The opportunity was posted December 23, 2014, and later amended to extend deadlines: the letter of intent due date shifted to February 6, 2015, and the application due date to March 6, 2015 (by 5 PM Eastern). The CFDA numbers associated with the funding were 93.297 (Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program) and 93.946 (Safe Motherhood and Infant Health initiatives), reflecting the broader public health and maternal/infant health context in which teen pregnancy prevention sits.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a federal effort to expand the evidence base for male-focused teen pregnancy prevention by funding a small number of long-term, rigorous studies, and by requiring that successful interventions be turned into well-documented, shareable packages. The combination of experimental evaluation, deliverable intervention materials, and structured training and technical assistance reflects an intention not only to learn what works, but to make it feasible for other systems and communities to implement proven strategies with fidelity.

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