Morehouse School of Medicine

Project Name: Statewide Network among Partners for Parents/Caregivers (SNAPP)

Key Priority Area: Caregivers

Project Overview: The Morehouse School of Medicine will establish, fund, coordinate, and support a multidisciplinary, state-wide network to explore, develop, test, refine, evaluate and disseminate effective parenting and caregiver interventions that help reduce teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and sexual and related risk behavior in Georgia. The Statewide Network Among Partners for Parents/Caregivers (SNAPP) will include partners who represent a diverse group of social/health systems officials, various committed stakeholders, parents, as well as youth who represent the population of focus.  The network goals are to: 1) increase understanding of the relationship between caregiver/parent-child relationships and teen pregnancy, STIs, and sexual and related risk behavior; and 2) increase the number of evidence-based caregiver/parent interventions for the reduction of teen pregnancy, STIs, and sexual and related risk behavior.  The project will conduct approximately 5 formative and outcome evaluations and 2-3 summative evaluations on the most promising interventions refined and tested by the network.

Community(ies) Served: GA (Statewide)

Partners: African American Churches Transforming Society (AACTS); Thinktwice Institute; Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital; MSM Innovation Learning Lab; and Clayton County Board of Health

Target Population: Biological and non-biological parents and caregivers, including coaches and youth pastors