Funding

The federal Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) supports Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that seek to help teens avoid unplanned pregnancies and other undesirable outcomes of sexual activity. Each project has an evaluation component to examine whether its activities are actually effective in achieving this goal. Curricula or programs that are shown to be effective earn the label of being “evidence-based,” which indicate they are worthy of wide adoption.

Pono Choices was among 19 new projects funded by OAH in September 2010 to implement and rigorously evaluate new and innovative programs to prevent teen pregnancy for youth ages 10-19, with a particular interest in reaching high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally under-represented youth populations.

Click on the links below to find out more about the OAH Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: