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
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…
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for adolescents aged 15-24, and almost 20% of high school students have reported thinking about suicide. In 2021, almost 60% of female students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness during the past year and nearly 25% made a suicide plan.
Youth who have experienced trauma, cyberbullying, and who struggle with…
These posters point to specific content within the We Think Twice™ campaign designed with teens, for teens. Topics include goal setting, healthy relationships, social media's impact on mental health, and STI education. Download, print, and display them in your classroom or organization.
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.
Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees collect various types of data, including data from participants, facilitators, and partners. This webinar provided an opportunity to learn more about how grantees could use their data to share the story of their PREP projects and improve their programming. Attendees heard from the Family and Youth Services Bureau, Office of Policy and…
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a systematic approach that uses information to make improvements to a program with an emphasis on future results. This tip sheet explains how QI differs from process evaluation, frameworks for approaching CQI, and why CQI is important. It also provides suggestions and strategies for initiating, implementing, and building support for CQI within your…
This session focuses on the needs of trauma-sensitive youth and how SRAE’s optimal health model can provide a context for the practical skills and encouragement they need to overcome personal and environmental obstacles to move toward increasingly positive behavioral outcomes.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020…
This session focuses on identifying ways to collect observational data to monitor program delivery and how to apply best practices when conducting observations.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020.
This session shows facilitators how to maintain curriculum fidelity while delivering curriculum content at the appropriate level of learning for improved clarity and participant engagement.
This session was part of the FYSB SRAE Virtual Topical Training presented by Public Strategies on September 15-17, 2020.
Kendy Cox, Vice President with Public Strategies, FYSB's SRAE contractor, opened the virtual training and welcomed Commissioner Liz Darling.
Understanding the Predictors of Behavior Change, led by Jerry Regier, PhD, Director of Adolescent Pregnancy Services with Public Strategies, and Tammy Bryant with Heritage Community Services, shared research related to predictors of…
This tip sheet describes strategies for frontline staff to prevent and respond to challenging student behavior, as well as tips for how supervisors can support staff’s efforts to manage the classroom and deliver high-quality programming. Publication date: February 2021.
This tip sheet covers facts on financial literacy among teens, tips for integrating financial literacy content into your APP program, and a variety of resources you can use to meet your program’s financial literacy instruction needs, including evidence-based curricula, online training and other materials for facilitators, needs assessment tools and evaluation tools, lesson plans, materials to…
This online training will help you learn about the mandatory reporting laws and how to develop proper protocols to keep youth safe. It includes a resource guide containing tips for planning and implementing mandatory reporting protocols, information about federal and state child abuse reporting laws, and strategies for addressing racial disparities in reporting child abuse and neglect.…
Logic models are usually created during program planning and are often forgotten once implementation begins. This tip sheet offers several considerations for how PREP programs can use logic models as a living document to support planning, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Reviewing your logic model is especially important when making changes or adaptations in response to…
Young men are critical to efforts aimed at reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Yet prevention education activities and health care services often fail to target them, let alone include them. This tip sheet provides tips and considerations for overcoming barriers to engaging young men.
If you’re looking for a holistic way to optimize your Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program, the Health Promotion Model (HPM) could be a great fit for you and your community. Through its focus on the whole person and what helps people make choices that promote their own well-being, the HPM shows the importance of learning and building skills that normalize choosing positive health…