Coordinating and Collaborating Across TPP Programs
Executive Summary
Funding for Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) comes from three HHS Agencies: The Administration for Children & Families (ACF), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH). HHS provides TPP funding to approximately 300 different organizations across the U.S.
This project team, which includes representation from the three HHS Agencies list above, has spoken with many different end-users. So far, the team has heard (1) that it is hard for grantees to connect, communicate, and collaborate and (2) that reporting is not streamlined.
To identify possible solutions, this project team is exploring the following questions:
- How might we re-image how federal agencies work with and support grantees?
- How might we create a TPP grantee-centered reporting experience?
- How might we best incorporate grantee feedback into TPP operations?
- How might we foster connections among our grantee projects?
What’s the projected impact? We don’t know (yet!) but with nearly 300 grantees we are excited to see what the outcome will be.
A project supported by the: HHS Ignite Accelerator
Team Members
Nicole Bennett (Project Lead), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS Office of the Secretary
Sarah Axelson, Family and Youth Services Bureau, ACF
Anna Brittain, Division of Reproductive Health, CDC
Milestones
March 2016: Project selected into the HHS Ignite Accelerator
April 2016: Time in the Accelerator began
Project Sponsor
Amy Margolis, Office of Adolescent Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS Office of the Secretary
Contributing Partners:
Mary Schauer, Division of Adolescent and School Health, CDC
