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Informing future strategies to incorporate body literacy and reproductive goals counseling into teen pregnancy prevention programs

Award Number: PHEPA000013
ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS/OFFICE OF FAMILY PLANNING
OPDIV: DHHS/OS
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2029

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Informing future strategies to incorporate body literacy and reproductive goals counseling into teen pregnancy prevention programs - Purpose. The purpose of this project is to strengthen the evidence base for medically accurate and age-appropriate teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) approaches by building knowledge on how to incorporate body literacy education and reproductive goals counseling into TPP programs to support optimal adolescent health. This overarching purpose includes three complementary objectives: (1) synthesize the evidence base to understand how existing research links body literacy education and reproductive goals counseling to optimal health; (2) assess adolescent and young adults’ current levels of body literacy and reproductive goals clarity, their experience with and needs related to reproductive goals counseling, and assess the needs of parents/caregivers for resources on these topics; and (3) translate research into practice by designing and evaluating a body literacy and reproductive goals counseling tool and implementation guide for parents/caregivers and youth-serving professionals. Activities. This project will employ a mixed-methods design to address its three objectives. Objective 1 will be addressed by conducting a comprehensive literature and program review and interviewing program developers to highlight effective and innovative approaches for incorporating body literacy education and reproductive goals counseling into TPP programs to support optimal health outcomes. Objective 2 will be addressed via primary data collection with adolescents and young adults (national survey, age-stratified focus groups) and parents/caregivers (focus groups). Objective 3 will be addressed using research-to-practice translation methods to develop and pilot a tool for incorporating body literacy education and reproductive goals counseling; this tool, geared toward youth-serving professionals and parents/caregivers, will be refined and broadly shared at the conclusion of the project. Throughout, we will conduct and evaluate strategic dissemination activities. Expected deliverables and outcomes. Findings from this project will provide a fundamental understanding of how elements of body literacy and reproductive goals counseling may be incorporated into TPP programming in ways that are medically accurate and age appropriate and implemented with quality and fidelity. Further, this project will result in a research-informed, pilot-tested tool for parents/caregivers and youth-serving professionals that TPP programs may use to bolster content around body literacy and reproductive goals counseling. Specific outcomes for Objective 1 and 2 will be measured through the creation of research briefs, journal articles, and fact sheets that will disseminate new knowledge, and through engagement with the dissemination products. The measurable outcomes for Objective 3 will be increases in parents’/caregivers’ and youth-serving professionals’ knowledge and self-confidence around body literacy and reproductive goals counseling through a pilot evaluation. Intended project beneficiaries or participants. The long-term beneficiaries of this project will be adolescents and young adults, who will benefit from this project’s evidence-building and research-to-practice translation related to body literacy education and reproductive goals counseling in the TPP context. Parents, caregivers, and youth-serving professionals will also be direct beneficiaries, since they will be the target audiences for the research-informed tool piloted in this project. Research participants for this project include program developers (Objective 1), adolescents and young adults (Objective 2), parents/caregivers (Objectives 2 and 3), and youth-serving professionals (Objective 3).


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $788,091 )
2026	2026	CHILD TRENDS, INCORPORATED	12300 TWINBROOK PKWY STE 235	ROCKVILLE	MD	20852	MONTGOMERY	USA	Public Health Service Evaluation Funds	00	1	9/30/2026	NEW	$788,091
														Subtotal = $788,091

Grand Total All Awards = $788,091

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Informing future strategies to incorporate body literacy and reproductive goals counseling into teen pregnancy prevention programs

Award Number: PHEPA000013

ORGANIZATION: OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS/OFFICE OF FAMILY PLANNING

OPDIV: DHHS/OS

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: OTHER

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2029

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