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Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Research to Practice Center Grants
Period of Performance: September 30, 2022-September 29, 2026
FY22 awards are projects that will synthesize and translate existing research into practice for health promotion activities that will lead to adoption of healthy behaviors, improve adolescent health more broadly, and ultimately help to reduce teen pregnancy. Funded Centers are expected to have a high caliber of scientific and technical competency, be forward-looking, provide strong leadership, and collaborate with stakeholders and community partners including state and local health agencies and non-profit, community (including youth and parents) and non-governmental organizations in the development and delivery of research to practice products.
Child Trends, Inc.
Annual Funding: $1,092,000
Project Overview: Building upon the work conducted in their FY20 award, Child Trends and Chapin Hall are partnering to further refine and carry out the work of Activate, a Research to Practice center with the goal of promoting adolescent health and preventing teenage pregnancy by bringing adolescent sexual and reproductive health research to youth-serving professionals, particularly those who serve youth in the child welfare and/or justice systems, youth experiencing homelessness, and opportunity youth.
Healthy Teen Network
Annual Funding: $1,063,776
Project Overview: Healthy Teen Network and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Adolescent Health are funded to create a Research to Practice center to expand the delivery of trauma-informed and inclusive practices in adolescent sexual and reproductive health programming and care.