Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus Email Community Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program About this Initiative Year Started: 2013 Social issue: Other Initiative stage: Organizing for Impact Location: West Des Moines and multiple communities across the state, Iowa, United States of America (the), Plains (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) Initiative Purpose and Goals: This is a project that utilizes the Roots to Fruit of Sustainable Community Change (R2F) model that integrates the Collective Impact Five Conditions. It is a six year project funded by the Iowa Department of Human Services. It has a lead organization (what we refer to as a "Super Backbone") that provides training and technical assistance and monitoring on behalf of the Iowa DHS to 19 community coalitions. For additional information about this project including a recently published peer-reviewed journal article, contact Tom Klaus, PhD, at twklaus@nonprofitgp.com or tklaus@eastern.edu. An abbreviated abstract is below: The Roots to Fruit of Sustainable Community Change (R2F) is a community development model for mobilizing efforts to effectively address teen pregnancy and other complex, controversial, social issues. The model is grounded in the authors’ hypothesis that community engagement guided by a high-performing infrastructure leads to sustainable community change progressing through a measurable sequence. This article describes the model, the change sequence and their measures, and the integration of the collective impact framework. Backbone Support Organizations serving in the Backbone Role EyesOpenIowa is the "Super Backbone" for the initiative. Discussions