MWV TPP Project - Project Title: MWV TPP Project
Contact Name: Kelly Thompson, Executive Director
Mailing Address: 168 Midland Trail Suite 1, Hurricane, WV 25526
Telephone: (304) 562-0723
Email/Website: kthompson@missionwv.org/www.missionwv.org
Project Service Area: Rural West Virginia
Overview: Mission West Virginia (MWV) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to innovative social change and building stronger communities in West Virginia. Established in 1997, MWV improves family stability in the Appalachian region by providing programs and services in the areas of teen pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, positive youth development, foster care services, youth mentoring, and family strengthening. MWV will partner with Community Action of South Eastern West Virginia and Rainelle Medical Center (EBP implementation partners), 9 adolescent-friendly support services (AFSS) partners, and performance measurement and continuous quality improvement partner AMTC to replicate medically accurate and age-appropriate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs (EBPs) and services in a community comprised of 16 counties serving populations with the greatest needs.
Population of Focus: MWV will serve 3 populations at high risk for pregnancy and STIs: 1) middle and high school, 2) foster care, and 3) juvenile justice-involved youth within the 16 counties. MWV will serve youth ages 10-19, but if older youth (up to 21) are present in these settings, they will be served.
Geographic Area to be Served: Services will be provided in the following West Virginia counties: Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Summers, Wayne, and Webster.
Target Numbers of Youth & Parents to be served: 55,000 youth and 23,000 parents over 5 years.
Proposed Evidence-Based Program Model to be Replicated: The Dibble Institute, Love Notes 4.0 and Healthy Futures, NuCULTURE.
Goals and Short-Term Outcomes:
Goal 1: Implementation of EBPs to scale with quality & fidelity.
Outcomes.
a. 90% of all lessons implemented with fidelity.
b. 85% of youth complete at least 75% of EBP.
c. 85% of participants surveyed, demonstrate enhanced knowledge of sexual risks.
d. 80% of participants surveyed, demonstrate healthy attitudes and beliefs towards sexual and reproductive health.
e. 75% of participants surveyed, demonstrate an increase in positive behavioral intentions towards sexual and reproductive health.
f. 90% of participants rate the EBP as high-quality through an index score (the content fit of EBP, the satisfaction /engagement with EBP, connection with educator).
Goal 2: Engagement of youth, parents/caregivers, & community.
Outcomes.
a. 90% of YLC and CAG members (family/ caregivers/community) participate in the annual community needs assessment and the selection/confirmation, implementation, and monitoring of EBPs and support services.
b. 85% of parent(s)/caregiver(s) attending program activities document strategies to support healthy decision-making of adolescents.
c. 80% of parent/caregivers attending events report having the skills to communicate/connect with child.
Goal 3: Increase in awareness/access to/utilization of adolescent-friendly support services (AFSS).
Outcomes.
a. 80% of youth report increase in awareness of AFSS.
b. 80% of referred youth report an increase in access to AFSS.
c. 70% of youth who need AFSS report utilization of AFSS.
Goal 4: Integration of inclusive, equitable, trauma-informed, and PYD approaches.
Outcomes.
a. 100% of program staff are trained in health equity, PYD, and trauma-informed care.
b. 90% of educators & classes observed demonstrate inclusiveness and trauma-informed approaches.
c. 90% of YLC youth from discussion groups, report the program utilizing inclusive, equitable, and PYD approaches.
Goal 5: Continuously monitor and improve the project through implementation of a MIP
Outcome.
a. 100% of MIP components are completed.