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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program supports the replication of evidence-based programs for adolescents ages 10-24 and their caregivers. Programming focuses on preventing unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents and promoting positive youth development. The program supports meaningful engagement of youth, parents/caregivers, and the community in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the project. It also supports active collaboration with a network of partners to increase awareness of and access to adolescent-friendly health services. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention program is implemented in school settings, juvenile justice systems, out of home care, community-based organizations, and clinics.

Wisconsin Family Planning Only Services is a Medicaid-funded program administered by DHS for persons of childbearing or reproductive age who:

1. Have income that does not exceed 306 percent of the FPL; and 2. Are not enrolled in full benefit coverage through Medicaid or BadgerCare Plus, Wisconsin’s health care program for low-income individuals and families. 3. Family Planning Only Services provides selected family-planning services, including contraceptive services and supplies, routine preventative primary services that are family-planning related, tests for abnormal cervical cells (Pap tests), and tests and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and voluntary sterilizations for women and men 21 years old or older.

(f) Prevention of Statutory Rape and Other Sexual Assault Conduct a program, designed to reach State and local law enforcement officials, the education system, and relevant counseling services, that provides education and training on the problem of statutory rape so that teenage pregnancy prevention programs may be expanded in scope to include men.

DCF, DPI, and DHS in partnership with the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), work cooperatively to prevent statutory rape, other sexual assault, and adolescent pregnancies. These education and training services, in addition to other services, are designed to reach various professions, including state and local law enforcement officials, the education system, and relevant counseling services ranging from prevention to enforcement based on the needs identified by Wisconsin’s communities.

Over the years Wisconsin’s adolescent sexual assault prevention and adolescent pregnancy prevention services have evolved to a strengths-based focus on promoting well-being, healthy relationships, sexual health, and self-esteem. The scope for these services includes both males and females.

An example of services implemented across Wisconsin Departments includes DPI’s collaboration with DHS and DOJ to create and post an electronic publication describing the circumstances under which educators are required to report sexual activity among adolescents as possible child abuse. A second example is DCF’s collaboration with DOJ and DHS to update W-2 program policy to comply with state statutes that require use of the legal substitute