Women, Infant and Community Wellness Section

The North Carolina Division of Public Health, Women, Infant, and Community Wellness Section has released RFA A424 – PREPare for Success Program.

• RFA A424 – PREPare for Success Program (PDF, 833 KB) 
• RFA A424 – PREPare for Success Program (Word, 279 KB)
• Open Window Budget Worksheet (XLS, 469 KB)
• Open Window Budget Form Worksheet Instructions (Word, 261 KB )

Purpose: The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) is designed to educate adolescents on both abstinence and contraception to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and adulthood preparation subjects. With reproductive health education programs, youth development, and parent involvement, adolescents will have the information and skills needed to make healthy decisions about reproductive health. PREP is administered by Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiatives (TPPI) of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Women, Infant, and Community Wellness Section, Reproductive Health Branch.

Eligibility: Public or private non-profit agencies (e.g., schools, colleges/universities, local health departments, non-profit community-based organizations) may receive funding to replicate at least one (1) evidence-based program model through this Request for Applications (RFA). For-profit agencies need not apply. If the applicant agency currently receives Primary Prevention funding for teen pregnancy prevention through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the agency may not apply to implement an additional primary pregnancy prevention program in the same county they currently serve but may propose a new program in a different county.

Applications will only be accepted from counties ranking in the top 50 for birth rates among females aged 15 to 19 based on a five-year average between 2019-2023. The counties are as follows: Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe, Graham, Greene, Halifax, Hoke, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Macon, Martin, McDowell, Mitchell, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Perquimans, Person, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland, Surry, Swain, Vance, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilkes, Wilson, Yadkin, and Yancey.

How to Apply:

The RFA will be posted on the Program’s website www.teenpregnancy.ncdhhs.gov/funding.htm, along with electronic copies of the application materials, on September 24, 2025.

A representative of the applicant agency is encouraged to participate in the bidder’s conference, which will be held virtually on October 2, 2025 from 10am-12pm EST through this Zoom link. Written questions concerning the specifications in this RFA will be received until 5:00pm on October 9, 2025. As an addendum to this RFA, a summary of all questions and answers will be placed on https://teenpregnancy.dph.ncdhhs.gov/funding.htm by October 17, 2025.

Potential applicants are also encouraged to submit an optional Notice of Intent no later than 5:00pm on October 9, 2025 by completing the survey found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NoticeofIntentRFA2025.

No later than October 30, 2025, Applicants shall email a PDF version of the full application; the application must be typed, on 8.5” x 11” paper with margins of 1”. Line spacing should be single-spaced. The font should be easy to read and no smaller than an 11-point font.

Deadline for Submission: Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 5:00pm on October 30, 2025 to tppi-rfa@dhhs.nc.gov.

How to Obtain Further Information: tppi-rfa@dhhs.nc.gov
Direct inquiries concerning this RFA to all of the following:
Nancy Warren, nancy.warren@dhhs.nc.gov
Deja Garlin, deja.garlin@dhhs.nc.gov
Kylia Ahuna, kylia.ahuna@dhhs.nc.gov

Application Process Summary Dates