The APS conceptual models are to help PREP grantees understand and select APSs, develop APS-related content, and target specific outcomes in their programs. Specifically, content about the models in this report will help grantees to understand APSs, choose APSs, develop APS content, and target specific outcomes.
This brief offers guidance to grantees who want to or already address one of the APSs, financial literacy, in their PREP program. The goal of this brief is to provide additional guidance on financial literacy to support grantees incorporating it in their programs.
Learn more about virtual data collection related to obtaining consent and assent, monitoring and observing program delivery, gathering youth feedback, and administering surveys.
Learn more about how you can assess whether your program is ready for an impact evaluation.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were homeless or runaway youth. The research questions addressed in the brief include:
Where are programs that primarily served homeless and runaway youth implemented?
What are demographic and behavioral…
Learn more about understanding ways to use continuous quality improvement to learn about and strengthen alternative and adaptive modes of program implementation.
Learn more about how to use logic models as a tool to guide program refinement and evaluation.
Handout from webinar on 06/09/2020 on logic models.
Read about cost analysis and learn more about the SRAE Grantee Cost Tool
Use this continuous quality improvement (CQI) self-assessment tool to identify practices and resources your team has in place to support strong CQI and where your team can build capacity.
Read about lessons learned from the 2021 SRAE continuous quality improvement (CQI) pilot. These lessons provide strong practices for conducting CQI.
This series of briefs tells the story of program plans of SRAE grantees’ who were operating in 2020.
The series includes:
Brief 1: Title V State SRAE Grantee Program Plans
Brief 2: Title V Competitive SRAE and General Departmental Grantee Program Plans
Brief 3: Preparing for and Supporting Program Implementation
Data Snapshot: Serving Youth in Out-of-Home Settings
This webinar presents findings from impact evaluations conducted by three 2016 PREIS grantees.
This webinar presents findings from impact evaluations conducted by three 2016 PREIS grantees.
This brief provides PREP grantees with an overview of the key concepts and evidence base for PYD. It examines the value of a PYD approach in relation to the APSs and provides guidance on how to incorporate PYD into existing programming to improve program outcomes.
This brief offers guidance to grantees on how to tailor APS-related content to pregnant and parenting youth.
Learn more about the elements of high-quality implementation evaluations, including research questions, data collection, and analysis. Hear about an upcoming opportunity to participate in individualized and group coaching to support recipients in designing and conducting high-quality implementation evaluations.
Learn more about understanding ways to use continuous quality improvement to learn about and strengthen alternative and adaptive modes of program implementation.
Learn more about measurement and its role in continuous quality improvement.
Learn more about the foundations of continuous quality improvement, a process for consistently refining and strengthening a program.
Download this file to conduct your own cost analysis. Enter your cost data, and the tool will calculate summary measures including your program’s total annual costs and average cost per youth.
Learn more about cost analysis and how to use the SRAE Grantee Cost Tool.
ACF guidance for working with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).
All PREP grantees are required to submit performance measures data to FYSB twice a year. This fact sheet is based on performance measures for the 2019–2020 reporting period.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were adjudicated youth. The research questions addressed in the brief include:
Where are programs that primarily served adjudicated youth implemented?
What are demographic and behavioral characteristics of youth in…
This report provides results from the Performance Analysis Study, which is part of the PREP Multicomponent Evaluation. The report presents grantee-submitted data on performance measures from PREP programs that were in operation from 2013 through 2017. Specifically, this report addresses how grantees operated and supported PREP programs, the characteristics of the programs and how they were…
This Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Plan Template supports teams' progress through the CQI cycle, including learning about challenges, developing improvement strategies, road testing, and monitoring improvement.
This webinar introduces and describes the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program model and its various components, highlights ways the model can be used, and introduces two related products—a brief and a two-page tip sheet—that are designed to facilitate grant recipients' use of the program model.
FYSB’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) Program’s work was featured in a special supplement issue of the American Journal of Public Health published online on Wednesday, February 14th, 2018. Review the supplement to learn more about research and strategies focused on reducing adolescent pregnancy among vulnerable youth. You will find numerous articles and insightful…
This recorded webinar took place on December 14, 2022. Complementing the last webinar “Misinformation and Public Health: Implications for Personal Responsibility Education Program Grantees”, this webinar focused on addressing misinformation around adolescent pregnancy prevention (APP) programming. In addition to discussing the impact of misinformation on APP programs, the webinar covered the…
This resource provides an overview of best practices to support the mental health of youth in Sexual and Reproductive Health programs. Information is provided regarding early warning signs as well as key strategies for prioritizing youth mental wellbeing in programming.
The files below accompany the Sexual Health Resource Toolkit for Parents and Caregivers of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Memes are shareable via social media and are available in two sizes: one for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and another for Facebook.
The files below accompany the Sexual Health Resource Toolkit for Parents and Caregivers of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Memes are shareable via social media and are available in two sizes: one for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and another for Facebook.
The files below accompany the Sexual Health Resource Toolkit for Parents and Caregivers of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Memes are shareable via social media and are available in two sizes: one for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and another for Facebook.
The files below accompany the Sexual Health Resource Toolkit for Parents and Caregivers of Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Memes are shareable via social media and are available in two sizes: one for Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and another for Facebook.
This brief provides six lessons on forming and sustaining strong partnerships, based on the experiences of two Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS) grantees.
This tip sheet provides lessons learned from former Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS) and Tribal Personal Responsibility Education Program (Tribal PREP) grantees. The lessons cover topics including incorporating culturally appropriate content, securing and sustaining partnerships, recruiting and enrolling youth into programs, maintaining youth attendance and…
These interactive lessons, adapted from Digital Citizenship, are designed to teach youth to identify online risk and develop healthy online relationships. The lessons are adapted for youth ages 10 to 21 with mild-to-moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities. The two lessons are:
Chatting and Red Flags, which helps students identify an online relationship as risky.
Rewarding…
This toolkit will help raise awareness about the important role parents and caregivers play in discussing sexual health with their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The toolkit covers four topics:
Parent–Child Communication
Adolescent Development
Internet Safety
Sexual Assault
For each topic, the toolkit includes resources designed to be easily shared…
Although teens can benefit in many ways from using social media, studies have shown that social media use is linked to anxiety, depression and lowered self-esteem among teens. This brief animated video gives youth-serving providers a platform to initiate conversations with youth about healthy and unhealthy social media use. It is narrated by three teens who talk candidly about their experiences…
Adolescents who experience sexual coercion can face a range of sexual and reproductive health outcomes leading to significant physical, emotional, and social consequences, including a higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and having unwanted pregnancies as well as increased risk of experiencing depression and anxiety. Conversations around coercion and consent should happen…
This report discusses the implementation structure of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) programs in four states—California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. The report discusses areas in which the states differed as well as similarities in their approaches to implementation. Original publication: November 2016.
Parenting can be challenging, especially in the teen years. Teens are undergoing emotional and physical changes associated with puberty and often feel significant stress and pressure related to school, jobs, extracurricular activities, and peer relationships. Parents and caregivers often want to build closer relationships with the teens in their lives but are unsure where to begin.This guide for…
This report and digital brief from OPRE provide results from the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Studies of Performance Measures and Adulthood Preparation Subjects project. Grantee-submitted data on performance measures are used to describe PREP programs that operated from 2017 to 2021 and the youth they served.View the ReportView the Interactive Brief
This fact sheet from OPRE summarizes highlights of findings based on performance measures for Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees for the 2020–2021 reporting period.Fact Sheet
This brief from OPRE presents findings from youth focus groups conducted as part of the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation (SRAENE). The focus groups were conducted to collect information on youth’s perspectives and to understand how youth experienced SRAE programming.Review the Brief
This toolkit provides information on instruments that Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant recipients can use to measure youth engagement in SRAE programs and what facilitators do in the classroom that promotes this engagement (which we refer to as facilitator quality that promotes youth engagement, or more simply, facilitator quality). Measuring youth engagement and facilitator quality…
Messages Matter is designed to help youth-serving providers navigate and address common challenges that can impede youth programming. This resource offers practical information and tools to expand community buy-in, increase parent engagement, and disrupt misinformation. Messages Matter builds upon key concepts, approaches, and activities presented in the Community Saturation Sourcebook and the…
Almost all teens report using the internet daily; nearly half of them are online “almost constantly.” It is clear that social media is here to stay, and it is important for parents and caregivers to understand how they can support teens’ mental health when it comes to social media use.The Social Media and Teen Mental Health guide from the Family and Youth Services Bureau can help.This guide…
Training resources for topical training.