Youth Curricula Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (TOPP)

The TOPP program aims to prevent rapid repeat pregnancy and promote healthy birth spacing among teens by providing telephone and home-based care coordination and access to family planning and other services.

TOPP uses Motivational Interviewing to guide teens in choosing birth control, with an emphasis on long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods. The randomized control trial showed that TOPP participants:

• Had fewer unintended repeat pregnancies and births
• Were more likely to use birth control and to choose LARC methods
• Were less likely to have unprotected sex

The TOPP implementation manual comes with 50 copies of the Birth Control Facts brochure used in the original program as well as a Birth Control Quick Guide for facilitators' use and information.

NOTE: Training and ongoing coaching in Motivational Interviewing with a MINT trainer is strongly recommended before implementing the TOPP program. Training for TOPP and ongoing MI coaching is available from Gary Stofle, LISW-S, LICDC-CS, BCD, who worked with the original TOPP study. Visit mitrainingfortopp.info/ for more information.