Roanoke Adolescent Health Partnership (RAHP) receives funding from several granting agencies.  The current funding partners and a brief description of the funding program is provided below:

 

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project

 

Roanoke's teen pregnancy prevention project operates four programs: Teen Outreach Program (TOP), For Males Only (FMO), Roanoke Adolescent Health Partnership (RAHP), and Resource Mothers (RM).  TPPP agencies follow a multi-faceted model in their approach to changing behavior. Programs provide education to change the way a person thinks.  Experiential techniques, such as role-playing and decision-making are employed to increase the person's ability to change behavior. Situational influences include promoting awareness in programs of contraceptive services and RAHP and RM provide access to care. Socio-structural contexts are changed via service learning and volunteer opportunities with TOP, ready access to health care with RAHP, family involvement with RM, and social opportunities with FMO and TOP. ROATPPP targets all adolescents, but focuses its projects on those who are high risk for becoming pregnant or causing pregnancy.

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Barnhart Fund

 

The Ruth Barnhart, MD, Community Hospital Neonatal - Pediatric Endowment Fund at the Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital has endowed funds for RAHP’s school-based and affiliated clinics providing access to primary and preventive health care services for Roanoke youth.

Goals of the Barnhart Fund are to increase the accessibility of adolescent health care to the youth of the Roanoke Valley, to emphasize health education, to increase mental health services, to assist families with obtaining insurance, and to assist with family planning issues.

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City of Roanoke, Human Services Fund

 

With funding from the Roanoke Human Services Fund, comprehensive health care services are provided to adolescents, through access to RAHP’s 3 Teen Health Centers, at no cost to the patient or his/her family. 

Specifically, these services include:  Health education and counseling (self-awareness and esteem, abstinence, safety, substance use avoidance, health maintenance); health care (wellness, family planning, sports physicals, illness/injury, STD care); family support (parent workshops, education, parent-child interactions); and long-term support (caring professionals who offer direction and guidance).

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The Katherine N. Fishburn Foundation

 

The Katherine N. Fishburn Foundation Fund provides support to cultural, educational, and social service programs as well as other important community needs.

Fishburn Foundation Funds are used for direct clinician services to the adolescents of the Roanoke Valley.

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