For several years, Samaj Studio served as a core design partner to the Reproductive Health National Training Center (RHNTC), a federally-funded national training and capacity-building center focused on teen pregnancy prevention. Working across a network of community-based grantees, we provided design coaching, strategic consultation, and hands-on support to organizations developing programs and services for young people across the United States.

Our work spanned the full range of what design partnership can look like in practice, from supporting product design processes to one-on-one coaching with program teams to facilitating RHNTC's annual national gathering, where we brought together grantees to share learning, build community, and strengthen their collective practice. It was some of the most relationship-centered, community-grounded work the studio has done, and a reminder of how much design capacity can transform organizations doing vital work with limited resources.