Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The Learning, Advancing, Understanding, Nurturing and Collaborating Hub—LAUNCH—developed by RTI International in partnership with Power to Decide, Healthy Teen Network, SisterLove, and Youth Collaboratory, will advance equity in adolescent sexual health by identifying, recruiting, and partnering with teams of innovators that have identified initial or emergent solutions to the current gaps in evidence for promoting adolescent sexual health. Over 5 years, LAUNCH will recruit and support at least 25 Innovation Development Teams. These teams will have existing prototypes that demonstrate promise in advancing equity in adolescent sexual health outcomes. We will recruit and engage diverse cohorts of Innovation Development Teams that include both existing grantees funded by the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and teams from communities that have not historically received investments in adolescent sexual health. By including an intentional focus on equity throughout the accelerator process—recruitment, selection, support, and learning—LAUNCH will contribute to the pipeline of evidence-based interventions that are available for families, communities, and schools to use to support young people and the adults in their lives. Other key project activities will include disseminating the learnings from the LAUNCH accelerator and our innovation development teams, monitoring and improving the LAUNCH accelerator, and collaborating with other Innovation Hubs and OPA grantees more broadly.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).