Topical Trainings are innovative and evidence-based trainings that equip APP grantees with new skills and strategies to apply their work. Trainings are interactive and include hands-on activities to build grantee capacity. Topical Trainings can be attended by APP grantees and sub awardees. Questions about Topical Trainings? Please email apptta@rti.org.
- Audience:
- srae
- Location:
- Virtual
Youth and Social Media: Risks and Opportunities
- Who: All staff
- What: Webinar series to help grantees support youth in building healthy social media habits, managing screen time, sharing safely, recognizing the signs of excessive or problematic social media use, and understanding the benefits of social media, all while protecting their physical safety and mental health.
- When: Winter 2025
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Building Connections: Fostering Parent and Caregiver Engagement in PREP Programming
- When: February/March 2025
- Mode: Virtual training
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Concluded Trainings
- Audience:
- srae
- Location:
- Charlotte, NC
Trauma Informed Facilitation of SRAE Programming
This topical training was held on November 19-20, 2024, in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this training, attendees learned how trauma presents in youth aged 10-19, trauma theories and brainstormed how trauma informed principles can be applied to facilitation.
This training has concluded.
Click here to access the resources for this topical training.
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- Audience:
- prep
- Location:
- Phoenix, AZ
Community Engagement for PREP Grantees
- Who: Program Managers and Project Staff Responsible for Developing and Maintaining Community Partnerships
- What: Skills-based topical training focused on building community support for PREP programming through community engagement including youth engagement.
Click here to access the PREP Grantee Attendance Letter and Agenda.
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- Location:
- Virtual
Program Management
Program management is critical to ensure the successful planning, implementation, and evaluation of adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. This four-session virtual training will equip grantees with knowledge, skills, and resources to align program activities with legislative and NOFO requirements. Grantees will also learn tips and strategies to enhance program management and administration.
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- Audience:
- prep
- Location:
- Nashville, TN
Recruitment, Retention, and Classroom Management
Recruiting and retaining youth is critical to the success of adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. Developing and executing a recruitment and retention strategy takes forethought, diligence, and in depth understanding of program data. This two-day training workshop will equip grantees with knowledge, skills, and resources to better understand how to use program data to inform recruitment and retention. Grantees will also learn how to expand partnerships beyond schools and other common community-based entities.
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- Audience:
- srae
- Location:
- New Orleans, LA
Developing Youth Leaders in SRAE Programming
This topical training will empower SRAE grantees to integrate youth leadership opportunities into their programs regardless of the program implementation setting. Attendees will participate in an interactive, experiential training focused on fostering positive youth leadership development.
This training has concluded. To view resources associated with this training, please visit: https://teenpregnancy.acf.hhs.gov/resources/developing-youth-leaders-srae-programming
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- srae
- Location:
- Virtual
Integrating Equity into SRAE Programming Series
An equitable society makes it less likely to be able to predict health outcomes based on race. The upcoming training will help Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grantees examine and address racial equity and other social factors that impact health and program outcomes.
The training will equip and empower grantees with tools, mindsets, and approaches to promote change at the individual level. The training will also prepare participants to explore organizational-level change. Participants will learn specific strategies to assess and address individual and organizational practices that may impact program delivery and outcomes based on race.
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- Audience:
- prep
- Location:
- Denver, CO
Life Interrupted: Moving Beyond Adolescent Brain Development and Trauma
The two-day PREP Topical Training, Life Interrupted: Moving Beyond Adolescent Brain Development and Trauma, will equip grantees with knowledge, skills, and resources to better understand adolescent brain development and under what circumstances adolescents are more likely to make risky decisions and why. Grantees will also learn how to apply trauma-informed strategies to decrease unhealthy risk-taking behaviors.
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- Audience:
- srae
- Location:
- Houston, TX
Promoting and Protecting Youth Mental Health
At the end of the training, participants will be able to do the following, with the purpose of providing referral to mental health and substance use services:
- Identify common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges in youth, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
- Respond to youth in crisis using the Mental Health First Aid Action Plan
- Determine protective and risk factors, and warning signs of suicide in youth
- Create a plan to help students who may be experiencing suicide ideation
- Practice at least three strategies to refocus the mind and release helpful thoughts while sitting or moving
- Incorporate stress and anxiety reduction practices into SRAE programming
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- Audience:
- srae
- Location:
- Virtual
Promoting the Avoidance of Risky Behaviors Using Trauma-Informed Self-Regulation Strategies
This two-day training will equip grantees to better understand under what circumstances adolescents are more prone to making risky decisions and why. Grantees will learn how the brain and cognitive development shape decisions adolescents make, and what factors may lead to healthy versus unhealthy risk-taking. Grantees will also explore the intersectional nature of trauma and the potential negative impact this can have on adolescent health. Grantees will be equipped with tools they can employ with adolescents to increase the use of self-regulation to decrease unhealthy risk-taking behaviors.
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- Audience:
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- Location:
- Virtual
Youth Mental Health First Aid: Identify. Understand. Respond.
Adolescence is an important period when youth develop social and emotional habits for mental well-being. Yet depression, anxiety, and behavioral disorders are common causes of illness and disability among youth. When unaddressed, mental health challenges can have far reaching effects that limit opportunities for youth to lead fulfilling adult lives. This two-part training will equip and empower grantees with knowledge, skills, and resources to identify and refer youth with mental health and substance use challenges to support services in their communities.
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