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Undated: About the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program
The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program is a national, evidence-based program that funds diverse organizations working to prevent teen pregnancy across the United States. OAH invests in both the implementation of evidence-based programs and the development and evaluation of new and innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancy. The OAH TPP Program reaches adolescents age 10-19, with a focus on populations with the greatest need in order to reduce disparities in teen pregnancy and birth rates.
Established in 2010 with a Congressional mandate to fund medically accurate and age appropriate programs, the OAH TPP Program currently funds 84 grants to communities.
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/grant-programs/teen-pregnancy-prevention-program-tpp/about/index.html
Undated: Sex education in the United States is taught in two main forms: comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only. Comprehensive sex education is also called abstinence-based, abstinence-plus, abstinence-plus-risk-reduction, and sexual risk reduction sex education. This approach covers abstinence as a choice option, but also informs adolescents about human sexuality, age of consent and the availability of contraception and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted infections. Abstinence-only sex education is also called abstinence-centered, abstinence-only-until-marriage, sexual risk avoidance, and most recently, youth empowerment sex education. This approach emphasizes abstinence from sexual activity prior to marriage and rejects methods such as contraception. These two approaches are very different in philosophy and strategies for educating young people about their sexuality.[1] The difference between the two approaches, and their impact on the behavior of adolescents, remains a controversial subject in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_States
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April 2: Donald Trump’s Embrace of Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Is an Absurd Twist on a Failed Policy
The federal government began funding so-called Abstinence-Only Until Marriage programs in 1981 as a way to encourage “chastity” and “self-discipline.” Since then, the feds have poured more than $2 billion into this strategy — commonly known as “ab-only” — without any proven positive effects, like delaying sexual activity or avoiding unintended pregnancy. In recent years, that funding had been in decline, in part because research — and practical experiences like Wiley’s — shows that the programs do not work. But in an ironic twist, they’re now making a comeback. Trump, an alleged serial adulterer who has bragged about sexually assaulting women and has been accused of such behavior close to two dozen times, has asked that abstinence funding be increased. And in the budget deal he signed last month, he got his wish, enough to bring total spending on abstinence up to $100 million for 2018.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/02/donald-trumps-embrace-of-abstinence-only-sex-ed-is-an-absurd-twist-on-a-failed-policy/
April 23: Trump Administration Pushes Abstinence in Teen Pregnancy Programs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/health/trump-teen-pregnancy-abstinence.html
July 23: Sex Ed, Birth Control And Getting Through School In The Trump Era
https://www.forbes.com/sites/catherinebrown/2018/07/23/sex-ed-birth-control-and-getting-through-school-in-the-trump-era/#2ede454418d8
August 11: Trump Administration Funds Sex Ed After Courts Rule Reversals Illegal
The Trump administration announced they will back off a move to cut funding of organizations working to prevent teen pregnancies after courts ruled in favor of the grant recipients in five different lawsuits.
However, the administration will use their new criteria that emphasizes abstinence and erases mention of LGBTQ youth to award future grants.
Planned Parenthood has filed suit to fight the administration’s new guidelines. In a press release announcing the lawsuit, Planned Parenthood decried the new criteria, saying, “Abstinence-only programs are not only unpopular, but they are also the same harmful programs that often blame survivors for their own sexual assaults, peddle fear, and ignore the needs of LGBTQ teens.”
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/207043/trump-administration-sex-education-teen-pregnancy-funding-cuts
October 29: One of the goals of sex education in schools is to help young people understand the risks of unprotected sex, including sexually transmitted infection and pregnancy. For many in the Trump administration, only one approach to sex ed is permissible: abstinence until marriage. Through the positions they hold, adherents to this view apply their influence over federal policy to ensure this approach is the only one that’s federally funded. This work didn’t take place overnight; like most conflicts over ideology, this one has been brewing a long time, even if it only catapulted to prominence in the last two years.
The change has led to the dismantling of a successful program, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, which began with bipartisan support in 2010.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/10/31/why-un-fund-a-proven-program-the-teen-pregnancy-prevention-fiasco/
October 31: U.S. diplomats may soon be prohibited from using the phrases “sexual and reproductive health” and “comprehensive sexuality education” under a proposal being floated to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, four people familiar with the issue said.
The proposal is being pushed by a handful of conservative political appointees at the State Department and other agencies, including Mari Stull, an adviser at State whose alleged mistreatment of career government staffers has already sparked multiple federal investigations.
It was not immediately clear what sort of direct policy changes, if any, could result from eliminating such terms, which have been used for years in domestic and international communications.
But changing the terms could lead to more contentious negotiations at the United Nations and other forums over language used for resolutions and agreements. It also could complicate matters for some non-governmental groups that receive U.S. funding and opt to stick with the traditional terms.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/31/state-department-ban-terms-sexual-health-907134
December 11:
Funding Abstinence: The War on Sex Ed
Rolling back funding for sexuality education harms adolescents across America.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gender-and-schooling/201812/funding-abstinence-the-war-sex-ed
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