PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To establish innovative, comprehensive, and integrated approaches to the delivery of care services for pregnant and parenting adolescents with primary emphasis on adolescents who are under 17 years of age. To promote abstinence from sexual relations through provision of age-appropriate education on sexuality and decision-making skills as the most effective method of preventing adolescent pregnancy and avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. HEALTH;
- Maternity, Infants, Children;
- Health Services Planning and Technical Assistance;
2. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Families and Child Welfare Services;
- Specialized Family and Child Welfare Services;
- Youth Services;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Youth (16-21);
- Women;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);