• Mom's Voice
• Bird's and Bee's

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) is a comprehensive pregnancy prevention program of the Michigan Department of Community Health, Adolescent and School Health Unit. The goal of the program is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy in Michigan.

This will be achieved through the implementation of comprehensive, evidence-based interventions that target the sexual and non-sexual factors that lead to delayed initiation of sex and increased condom or other contraception use.

TPPI programs target youth and young adults between the ages of 10 and 18 (up to 21 for special education populations).

Community agencies throughout the State will be funded to provide youth with intense and direct programming which promotes personal respect and responsibility, builds skills for dealing with peer pressure and are age, gender and culturally relevant.

Communities targeted are urban, suburban or rural and must serve between 250 and 1000 youth. Interventions must provide at least 14 hours of intervention per youth per year to help participants acquire and practice specific skills such as communication, negotiation, refusal, decision-making, and resistance of peer/social pressure.

TPPI activities include: youth programming, community advisory councils, community awareness activities, parent/adult/caregiver education, media campaigns and educational/promotional items.

Goal:

To reduce the rate of teen pregnancy in Michigan for youth ages 10-18.

For more information about TPPI, Contact:

Kara Anderson