Research Triangle Institute

Innovation Hub Name: The Learning, Advancing, Understanding, Nurturing and Collaborating Hub (LAUNCH)

Innovation Hub Type: Accelerator 

Project Overview: Research Triangle Institute (RTI) will partner with Power to Decide, Healthy Teen Network, SisterLove, and Youth Collaboratory, to implement the Learning, Advancing, Understanding, Nurturing and Collaborating Hub (LAUNCH). LAUNCH will recruit and support at least 25 Innovation Development Teams over five years. These teams will have identified initial or emergent solutions to the current gaps in evidence for promoting adolescent sexual health and will have existing prototypes that demonstrate promise in advancing equity in adolescent sexual health outcomes.  

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 young people’s lives.

Anticipated total number of Innovation Development Teams (IDTs) to be supported through the project: 25 IDTs over five years