Alliance Strategies and Programs

The Alliance pursues three interrelated strategies to meet our mission:

• Public Policy: The Alliance frames the issues for policy makers at the state and local levels in terms of what teens need to make healthy choices and what young families need to become self-sufficient productive members of society.
• Promoting Best Practices: The Alliance works with youth-serving professionals, educators, health care works and others on the front line to provide them with information, technical assistance and training about what works in teen pregnancy prevention and with teen parent families.
• Youth Empowerment: The Alliance young people’s leadership skills, empowering them to educate themselves and each other, and to advocate for effective teen pregnancy prevention and teen parent services.

The Alliance provides five programs:

• The Public Policy Program works in coalition with our member agencies and other advocates to ensure that state and federal policy developments and resource allocations for teen pregnancy services are responsive to the needs of at-risk youth and young families. Involving youth in the policy-making process is key to the program’s work.

• The Teen Parent Policy Advisory Board (TPPAB) is a group of highly motivated teen and former teen parents who advise the Alliance on policy directions and program options. In addition the TPPAB acts as a speakers bureau whose goals are to empower teens and to change the way the public views teen parents.

• The Education and Public Information Program provides a wide range of workshops and seminars to develop and enhance the skills of individuals working in teen pregnancy.

• The Benefits Access Project (BAP) operates a toll-free helpline that not only provides technical expertise for teens and providers on accessing public benefits, but also provides important feedback to the policy program, by identifying systemic problems impacting teen parents across the state.

• The Partners in Prevention project is designed to support communities in understanding the issues related to teen pregnancy prevention. By providing information, technical assistance and resources, Partners in Prevention aims to increase the capacity of youth-serving professionals to reduce teen pregnancy in the communities they serve.

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Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
105 Chauncy Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
617.482.9122 Main, 617.482.9129 Fax