I am pleased to announce that the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) recently launched the Pregnancy Assistance Fund Resource and Training Center, a new online resource for professionals serving pregnant and parenting teens. We encourage you to visit the Resource and Training Center, where you’ll find training, technical assistance, and skill-building information as well as guides, tips and location-specific information to build the capacity of organizations supporting pregnant and parenting teens: http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/paf. We plan to add additional tools and information in the months ahead, including E-learning modules that provide virtual training opportunities.
We welcome your assistance in helping us promote the Resource and Training Center by sharing information about it through your local and state networks and newsletters, social media and website. Sample tweets, a Facebook post and paragraph for newsletters are included at the end of this message.
Please consider:
Sending an email to your organization’s listserv or through your other networks to share the website address, and encourage your colleagues to subscribe to our newsletter. A sample paragraph to include is below.
Promoting the online Resource and Training Center through your Twitter or Facebook accounts (and please “follow” us on Twitter @teenhealthgov).
Joining me and your peers on a newly formed LinkedIn group for professionals, Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Teens. This group allows grantees (and others) to share information and resources directly with one another, as well as advertise events and job openings.
We are excited to announce this new resource and appreciate your help and support in promoting it. Please stop by and let us know what you think!
Sample paragraph for newsletters
The Office of Adolescent Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new, online Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) Resource and Training Center to provide training and technical assistance resources to organizations working with pregnant and parenting teens. Designed for PAF grantees and other providers in the field, the Resource and Training Center contains training and skill-building information as well as guides, tips and location-specific information to build the capacity of organizations supporting pregnant and parenting teens. Visit http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/paf, and stay up to date with news and developments by subscribing to OAH's e-updates.
Sample Tweets
Check out a great new federal resource center for orgs serving pregnant & parenting teens & youth! http://1.usa.gov/SUjDoN @teenhealthgov
Want better outcomes for pregnant & parenting teens? Check out this new Resource & Training Center http://1.usa.gov/SUjDoN @teenhealthgov
Sample Facebook Post
Do you work with pregnant and parenting teens? Check out this new resource from the Office of Adolescent Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: the Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) Resource and Training Center! Designed for PAF grantees and other organizations working with pregnant and parenting teens, the Resource and Training Center contains training, technical assistance, and skill-building information as well as guides, tips and location-specific information to build the capacity of organizations supporting pregnant and parenting teens. Visit http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/oah-initiatives/paf.
Allison Roper, LICSW
Director, Division of Program Development and Operations/ Team 2
Office of Adolescent Health
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 700
Rockville, MD 20852
240.453.2806 (phone)
240.453.2801 (fax)
Allison.Roper@hhs.gov
http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah
