Guttmacher Policy Review 2 Key Questions for Consideration as a New Federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative Is Implemented

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative As part of his first budget, Obama proposed and Congress approved essentially intact a $114.5 million teenage pregnancy prevention initiative, designed as a competitive grant program, aimed at reducing the risks of pregnancy. Under this effort, $75 million would be reserved for replicating programs “proven effective through rigorous evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors.”The bulk of the remaining funds (not less than $25 million) would be available for research and demonstration grants to test new models and approaches that have shown promise.