ORC Macro, Philliber Research Associates, and the University of California at San Francisco conducted an evaluation of the CDC-funded Community Coalition Partnership Programs for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy (CCPP). CCPP is a national demonstration project involving 13 communities with populations of more than 200,000 and teen birth rates 50 percent higher than the national average. The project is the first multi-site, community-wide, comprehensive effort to reduce teen pregnancy based on the youth development model.

Through in-depth document review, 364 site-visit interviews, and 150 surveys of program staff, local evaluators, and coalition members we profiled and integrated the experiences of the individual sites. The presentation will examine findings, lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations on the following topics:

Ø      The strengths and limitations of the various organizational models employed by the sites

Ø      Bringing together and working with people who hold different views about how to approach teen pregnancy prevention

Ø      How the sites attempted to change agency, organizational, and community capacity to prevent teen pregnancy

Ø      How youth development fit into the community’s approaches

Ø      Changes in agency, organizational, and community capacity

Ø      Changes in community approaches or commitment to teen pregnancy prevention

Ø      Changes in teen birth rates and other outcomes

Ø      Community characteristics that affected those changes

Ø      The contributions of local evaluation activities

The presentation will conclude with lessons learned that are valuable to the teen pregnancy prevention field and to those interested in community-based change efforts using a coalition or partnership model.