On March 23, 2023, SRAE grantees had an opportunity to learn how teen dating violence (TDV) affects the physical, mental, and sexual health of youth and how it impedes their overall well-being. This session introduced foundational knowledge and concepts around language, prevalence, and complex dynamics of TDV. The presenters expanded the session to include the impact of the digital world (e.g.,…
This interactive webinar focuses on what program fidelity and adaptation means in an ever changing educational landscape. Participants receive background information on fidelity and adaptations and why it is important to remain flexible while still following certain fidelity guidelines. Participants learn more about core components, core implementation, and core pedagogy and how to preserve those…
This session discusses the facilitator’s need to have a clear understanding of SRAE’s required topics in the context of the Optimal Health Model, along with the needed passion and dedication to meet youth where they are through the practical skills of building positive student and teacher relationships, drawing professional boundaries and developing confidence in unique presentation styles.…
This interactive webinar offered an opportunity for Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees to learn more about teaching program participants with intellectual or development disabilities (I/DDs). Sexual and reproductive health is an important aspect of human development, but discussions with adolescents with I/DD on this topic are often challenging for youth service providers…
This social media toolkit provides tips and strategies for adolescent pregnancy prevention grantees and their partners to increase the visibility and impact of their efforts. The toolkit has been updated to reflect new trends in social media use among adolescents since 2017. By following the steps outlined in the “roadmap,” you will be able to research, plan, and implement your own social media…
Peer to peer sex trafficking among youth can happen in a variety of situations. These infographics help youth and adults learn about what peer to peer trafficking looks like and what they can do to help stop it. Share these infographics online. You can also print the infographics to display, but make sure to use legal or larger-sized paper so the text is legible. We offer both English…
In this episode, “Sustainability,” Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Drs. Asari Offiong and Mindy Scott from Child Trends to discuss steps program staff can take to plan for sustainability. Although there is no uniform definition of sustainability, discussions of sustainability often focus on the ability to maintain an intervention or its outcomes after some initial period. Defining…
In this episode, “Trauma-informed care: Resilience,” Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Drs. Vicki Johnson-Lawrence and Lissette Saavedra from RTI International to discuss the impact of internal and external factors on trauma-informed approaches and youth resilience. APP programs provide youth with timely, evidenced-based information sexual health education and Adulthood Preparation Subjects…
In this episode, “Addressing Controversy in Communities,” Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Lashantynia Clayton (dhs.ga.gov | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram), Ginger Harris (tn.gov/dcs | Facebook | Twitter), and Zoa P. Schescke (CoSHI) to discuss youth engagement and community misinformation. Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) provides youth with timely, evidenced-based information…
In this episode, “Navigating Staff Turnover,” Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) grantees Melissa Ballard and Jill Gwilt from Mission West Virginia’s Teaching Health Instead of Nagging Kids (THINK) program to discuss program management and staff retention. Building a team of strong, consistent, youth-centered staff is essential to program implementation…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently released a resource guide entitled, Keeping Youth Drug Free. This important guide was primarily written for parents and youth care providers. In addition to underscoring the long-term effects of early alcohol and illicit drug use, the document also offers tips for preventing substance use disorders among…
Healthy parent–teen communication and a close connection between teens and their parents, guardians, and other caregivers promote abstinence, contraceptive use, condom use, and other behaviors to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This tip sheet will help grantees and other youth-serving providers understand the impact of parenting styles on the development and behavior…
Teaching adolescents how to form safe and healthy relationships is a key part of helping them refrain from engaging in risk-taking behaviors as well as improving their reproductive health outcomes and emotional and social wellbeing. Designed to supplement your organization’s programming with middle and high school youth, this engaging lesson will provide youth with information and skills to…
This guide to trauma-informed programming is for facilitators who deliver school- and community-based or one-on-one programs to young people. It includes user-friendly checklists that facilitators can use before, during, and after program delivery to ensure that they are using a trauma-informed approach.
The guide is accompanied by a handout that provides a list of national resources for youth…
This Family Formation tip sheet is developed through the lens of the research on societal benefits for children who are raised by both biological parents within a healthy and committed marriage, and benefits for the community when the institution of marriage is communicated in a positive manner. Research presented supports the goal of the SRAE program and its requirements.
In this session, grantees share innovative strategies on how youth have been engaged in their cultural context and empowered through personal agency toward healthy decision-making.
Welcome and Introductions and Opening Remarks for the SRAE TTA Virtual Topical Training, February 23-25, 2021.
Setting the Stage for Youth Thriving: Harvard's Human Flourishing Program highlights empirical research across multiple social science and medical disciplines that inform human flourishing. It provides practical guidance for the integration of important multidisciplinary findings that…
In this webinar, the Family & Youth Services Bureau provided a detailed presentation of how they have been successful in increasing optimal health messaging for youth through a multi-faceted digital media campaign, along with tools and resources for youth-serving providers and caregivers. The Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation shares a brief overview of collaborative efforts…
Many youth victims of human trafficking come into contact with health care and social service professionals and remain unidentified. Youth and young adult victims of trafficking can present a wide range of physical and psychological health issues and social service needs. This webinar training aims to educate social service providers and health care professionals on how to identify, treat, and…
To facilitate effective implementation of a Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program, it is crucial to assess how implementation will occur in the community, school, or other settings. This tip sheet provides steps to researching the needs of the target population(s), investigating existing programs, and learning the specific concerns of the institutions and/or agencies involved, to help…
The Science of Hope and Its Application to SRAE Programs
This Topical Training focuses on the Science of Hope and explores the power of hope for youth as a protective factor in overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and as a motivating factor for personal and future success. Various aspects of the topic are covered throughout the three-day training, allowing grantees to better…
This interactive webinar focused on the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) legislative requirements, including the Adulthood Preparation Subjects (APS). Participants had an opportunity to review the legislative requirements and learn about available tools and resources that can ensure their program is compliant.
The handout, Resources to Support Implementation of PREP Legislative…
In episode four, "This is a Safe Space: Trauma-Informed Care," Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Drs. Hannah Lantos and Brandon Stratford from Child Trend to discuss creating trauma-informed spaces that are safe and supportive for all young people. It is especially important for practitioners to think about how their organization and program implementation can be trauma-informed. A trauma-…
Roberta’s House is a community-based non-profit out of Baltimore, Maryland that has provided bereavement support programs to the city since its first free bereavement program in 1982 when it was operating as March Funeral Homes. In this presentation, presenters Veronica Land-Davis and Annette R. March-Grier pulled from their extensive knowledge and expertise to help grantees better understand the…
Next to infancy, early adolescence is the most dynamic period for brain development—also known as a “window of opportunity”—making this an ideal time for youth to gain and maintain new skills. This infographic provides insights into why adolescents are prone to seek out novel experiences and excitement, especially in the presence of peers; how emotional context plays a role in the way adolescents…
This webinar explored strategies for effectively working with male youth in adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. Héctor Sánchez-Flores, executive director of the National Compadres Network (NCN), discussed strategies and innovative ways to recruit and engage young men in programs to support healthy futures of male youth.
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 in foster care. The research questions addressed in the brief include:
Where are programs that primarily served youth in foster care implemented?
What are demographic and behavioral characteristics of youth in…
In Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and other youth-serving programs, peer mentoring can be used to improve outcomes for the youth served. This tip sheet provides an overview of the benefit of peer mentoring programs along with considerations for how grantees might incorporate a peer mentoring program into their existing programming.
Adopting prevention strategies that address one or more risky behaviors as a part of your APP program can help youth abstain from or delay early sexual initiation. One such strategy is a social norms approach, an evidence‒based prevention strategy. This tip sheet presents information about a social norms approach as well as examples of how APP grantees might consider using such an approach.
Learn how to use logic models as a programming tool, a tool to inform continuous quality improvement, an evaluation tool, and more.
This SRAE program model identifies key content, strategies, and resources for designing and implementing SRAE programs, and expected related to staff facilitation, curriculum delivery, and youth engagement. It also presents anticipated short- and long-term outcomes for youth along with contextual factors that might influence program implementation. The program model clarifies key elements of SRAE…
The PREP performance measures data provide systematic information about program operations and outcomes for all PREP grantees, their provider organizations, the programs they operate, and the youth they serve. This interactive brief highlights key findings for PREP between 2013 and 2017.
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Watch this video to learn about the types of survey error that can happen in data collection and strategies to ensure objectivity.
This virtual topical training provides knowledge, skills, and strategies on how to implement adulthood preparation subjects to promote positive adolescent development in APP programs.
In this webinar, participants learned about social emotional learning (SEL), emotional intelligence, and trauma-informed education before breaking into small groups to explore strategies for integrating SEL into various adulthood preparation topics. Participants also reviewed resources for incorporating SEL into evidence-based programs. The webinar was presented on September 8, 2022.
Kendy Cox, Vice President with Public Strategies, FYSB's SRAE contractor, closed the virtual training and introduced LeBretia White.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020.
This resource guide is designed to provide the Family and Youth Services Bureau’s (FYSB) Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees and other youth-service providers with tips and strategies for recruiting youth and partners into their programming. More specifically, the guide includes information about promoting collaborative referrals, establishing strong partnerships,…
This webinar provided participants with guidance and resources for addressing sexual and reproductive health with systems-involved youth. It included background information on young people involved in systems (foster care, juvenile justice), sexual and reproductive health considerations among these young people, and provided best practices for working with young people. The webinar was presented…
Youth in rural communities are more likely to face barriers to accessing health care and have higher rates of childbearing than youth in urban communities. This tip sheet explores strategies that Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees and other youth-serving providers in rural communities can use to engage a variety of local leaders, partners, and community members to address…
The Family and Youth Services Bureau’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program hosted the Grant Management Training Webinar on October 26, 2022. This webinar gave grantees insights into the following topics:
Office of Grants Management (OGM) Roles, Responsibilities, and Services
Grants Policies & Regulations
Payment Management System (PMS) …
This two-day training was held on November 15 and 16, 2022 with the goal of equipping SRAE grantees to better understand what circumstances adolescents are more prone to making risky decisions and why. Participants learned how the brain development shapes decisions adolescents make, and what factors may lead to healthy versus unhealthy risk-taking. Participants also explored the intersectional…
This session explains in detail the foundational components of the Optimal Health Model, how it is applied in SRAE and how success is measured as youth are moved toward positive outcomes.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020.
The Title V Competitive SRAE Grantee Orientation Webinar was held on October 24, 2022, and provided Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grantees with information to support grant administration and program implementation and information on the types of support and assistance available to grantees. Additionally, FYSB project officers reviewed the program requirements and responded to…
This webinar was held on October 27, 2022, and provided insight into the approaches and tools needed to engage youth in foster care and juvenile justice systems in Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) programming. The webinar also gave an overview of the unique experiences and particular needs of youth involved in these systems and examined how grantees can partner with agencies to provide SRAE…
This session addresses how effective facilitators teach using the frameworks of self-regulation and co-regulation, to mitigate personal biases and stress, and create safe, supportive environments.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020.
This interactive webinar offered an opportunity for PREP Grantees to learn more about the science of misinformation including about the history of misinformation and why addressing misinformation is critically important. Participants shared their experiences with misinformation related to their PREP work in communities and learned about efforts underway to address such issues. They learned…
This brief provides information and resources on trauma-informed care (TIC) for staff of adolescent pregnancy prevention programs (APP). The first section of the brief describes how a history of trauma can impact youth’s well-being. The second section summarizes the frequency of trauma histories among youth likely to attend APP programs. The third section presents principles of trauma-informed…
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.