Sex education funding is largely up to state and local governments — that includes whether or not sex education programs are funded at all, and how much they are funded. In 2010, President Barack Obama started two small funding streams to teen pregnancy prevention programs: the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP). These were created to provide funding and support for sex education programs that are backed by science, proven to increase safer sex and help youngscience, proven to increase safer sex and help young people prevent unintended pregnancy.