Purpose

• According to Carol Cassell, author of "Mobilizing communities: An overview of the Community Coalition Partnership Programs for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy", the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalitions' main goal was to decrease the teenage pregnancy rate through mobilizing already established groups in the community. The intention was for the communities to address and solve the teenage pregnancy problem themselves with a provided infrastructure. Activities orchestrated by the coalitions had purpose for the future sustainability of the programs. Several partnerships grew between different neighborhood agencies to entirely surround the problem and address it from several angles.
  
  

Eligible Communities

• Communities that were eligible to participate in the CDC's experiment had to have a birth rate amongst teenagers that was 1.5 times that of the nation. These communities also needed an overall population over 200,000 and a passion to decrease teenage pregnancies in their area. Lastly, eligible communities needed to have what the CDC called hubs, or already established entities that had the potential ability to decrease teen pregnancies. The hubs included several groups such as the government, family planning assemblies, and youth groups.
  
  

Original Community Coalitions

• There were 13 original community coalitions that were involved in the project. These groups were:
  
  Greater Options for Adolescent Lives, Inc in Boston
  Communities Reducing Adolescent Pregnancies in Chicago
  Jacksonville Alliance for the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy
  Kansas City Working With Adolescents in Time
  Milwaukee Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Consortium
  Healthy, Empowered, and Responsible Teens of Oklahoma City
  Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of Orange County in Orlando
  Philadelphia Coalitions for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project
  Reaching Communities for a Cause in Pittsburgh
  Metro Council for Teen Potential in Rochester
  Project Better Future in San Antonio
  People and Communities Changing Tomorrow in San Bernardino, CA and
  Project CHANGE in Yakima, WA
  
  

Funding

• Carol Cassell et al. stated that direct service funding for the community hubs did not come directly from the CDC because services are often discontinued once the funding disappears. CDC funding of the program consequently went into things that would not disappear after the money did, such as training for program participants and grant writing workshop. Each program approximately received $350,000 per year. An additional $490,000 per year was given to a technical assistance team for the communities to use when necessary.
  
  

Activities

• According to Carol Cassell, activities orchestrated by the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalitions were implemented with teen pregnancy prevention experts. Prospect Associates operated social marketing events for brand recognition of the coalitions. They also provided consultations for financial sustainability and fundraising. Leadership forums and consortiums took place as well.