Meta-analysis of federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs: final report
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Juras, Randall, author Kelsey, Meredith, author Lipsey, Mark, author Steinka-Fry, Katarzyna, author Layzer, Jean, author
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Administration for Children and Families, issuing body. United States. Department of Health and Human Services, issuing body. United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, issuing body. United States. Office of Adolescent Health, issuing body. United States. Public Health Service. Office of Population Affairs, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs, November 2019
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Government Programs Pregnancy in Adolescence -- prevention & control Program Evaluation Research Design Federal Government United States
- Genre(s):
- Meta-Analysis Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funded a large number of teen pregnancy prevention program grants through three grant programs: the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, the Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS) program, and the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). These grants were overseen by two agencies: the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). These agencies also oversaw many rigorous independent evaluations of the grant-funded programs. Before this effort, evidence of effectiveness for most teen pregnancy prevention program models came from single studies, often conducted by the program developer many years earlier. This increase in federal investment in evaluation reflected recognition of the need for independent testing to assess the replicability of evidence-based programs in contemporary contexts and with diverse populations, as well as to generate evidence to support or refute those original study findings. Beyond replications, HHS funded several new and untested programs, and sponsored evaluations of almost all of them. The explicit goal of these efforts was to expand and strengthen the research base, so that future decision makers would have a more robust body of evidence upon which to base their selection among program models. In 2015, as one of several subsequent steps in a carefully sequenced research agenda, OAH, ACF, and HHS's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) funded a quantitative synthesis of the findings from all of these evaluation efforts. Abt Associates Inc., in partnership with the Peabody Research Institute of Vanderbilt University and Belmont Research Associates, was selected to conduct the analysis. This is the meta-analysis final report.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vi, 61 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101777738 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101777738