Innovation Insights
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Future Plans Provide Benefits for Our Customers and Our Team
Empowered Together, a team that participated in Launch during its second cohort, shares how they have applied their learnings from the program to make plans for the future of their innovation.
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Listening Before Building: How Parent Feedback Helped Us Reimagine Growing Sideways
EyesOpenIowa, an innovation team from Cohort 2, share the insights they gleaned from end users and how they incorporated this information into shaping their innovation.
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Reflections from Ignite: Launch Pitch Day
The Launch team looks back at the pitch event that marks the completion of the second Launch cohort.
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Centering User Input to Redesign Our Offering
Cohort 2 team SafeBAE shares how they used market testing to gather input from their end users and inform the re-design of one of their trainings.
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Meet our Launch Cohort 3 Teams
Five new innovation teams will work to build and scale their solutions to improve youth health outcomes.
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How I’m Applying Launch Learnings in the Classroom
Amber, a member of the #RelationshipGoals team, shares how she’s applying insights from Launch in her role as a college professor.
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Launch Team Reflects: Our Biggest Accomplishments and What We’re Looking Forward To
Members of the Launch team share accomplishments to date and discuss what they’re excited about this year.
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The Importance of Storytelling to Impact Outcomes
Teen Talk Foster Youth reflects on their time as a part of Launch’s first cohort and their takeaways from a training on storytelling.
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A Spotlight on Innovation: Highlights from the 2025 Healthy Teen Network Conference
Launch partner Healthy Teen Network shares highlights from their annual national conference, which included for the first time an Innovation Showcase that enabled innovators to share their innovations and connect with each other.
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Engaging Experts to Drive Innovation in Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Launch faculty recently held a listening session to hear perspectives from people working in teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent health. Launch faculty member Courtney, who leads Launch recruitment, shares takeaways from the session, which will inform Launch’s strategy moving forward.









