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…
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…
The Optimizing Survey Results: Strengthening Survey Results webinar focused on practical ways to share survey results with key stakeholders such as parents, local business leaders, local service providers, schools, and policymakers to build program support. It also assisted SRAE facilitators to see the importance of clearly communicating key curricular concepts, so student progress toward optimal…
One of the most impactful decisions made by a Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program director is who will deliver the program curriculum to program participants. This How to Interview Candidates for the SRAE Facilitator Role tip sheet provides strategies to assist you in selecting the best candidate for your SRAE facilitator, determining the most critical qualities and prior experience of…
On this episode of the Youth Voices video series, youth share their experiences and thoughts about creating engaging and inclusive environments and accommodating diverse learning styles in APP programming. Facilitators of APP programming can use this video to gain insights on how to create a classroom environment that makes youth feel safe to participate fully in class discussions. It includes…
Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) 101 provides definitions and foundational history behind our nation’s efforts to recognize the physical and emotional risks associated with non-marital sexual activity. Module 1 introduces the foundations of SRAE, including the history and theories underlying the policy and practice of sexual risk avoidance (formerly called abstinence education). Module 2…
This Topical Training examines new research to help Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) programs create more effective pathways to empower youth to overcome individual and societal barriers to healthy decision-making. Dr. Philip Hong shares how learning about the psychosocial development of youth relative to culture, environment, trauma, and their lived experiences can help them understand…
Your efforts as an SRAE grantee can influence individual, family, and community health and well-being through the distribution and visibility of participant survey results from your SRAE program.
This tip sheet explores the importance of communicating with stakeholders the specific survey results and overall outcome of your local Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program and provides…
It is incredibly important for youth to know how to protect themselves from contracting sexually transmitted infections.
This infographic is a resource you can share directly with the youth you serve. It uses youth-friendly language and graphics to teach youth what STIs are, what puts them at risk for getting an STI, how to protect themselves, how to get tested for STIs, and what to do if…
Adolescent development extends beyond the physiological changes that occur in adolescence. It also encompasses cognitive, emotional, social, sexual, identity formation, and spiritual change and growth. Providing youth with the right developmental skills and competencies can help them overcome the challenges they encounter during the adolescent period. This webinar provides an overview of broad…
FYSB’s new video in the Youth Voices series, PREP Matters: Teens Speak Out on the Value of the Personal Responsibility Education Program, underscores the critical importance of PREP programming for youth. In this video, youth share their thoughts about the importance of early and regular educational experiences designed to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. They discuss the…
Visit the NTPP Month Digital Toolkit for information, graphics, and social media content you—and the teens you serve—can use to help spread the word about teen pregnancy prevention.
NTPP Month Digital Toolkit
This brief summarizes key characteristics of youth participants in programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors. The research questions addressed in the brief include:
Whom did PREP programs serve?
Where did PREP implement programming for youth?
How did youth…
This tip sheet describes types of parent involvement and provides concrete examples for how adolescent pregnancy prevention (APP) program providers can engage parents.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors. The research questions addressed in the brief include:
How many youth participated in the PREP program?
How many providers and facilitators delivered PREP programming to…
In episode one, "Building and Strengthening Partnerships,"" Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Debbie Herget and Edna Wallace with RTI International's Education and Workforce Development (EWD) Division to discuss strengthening partnerships with schools. Partnering with schools is a practical approach to reaching a large number of youth with quality programming. In fact, schools are the most…
In episode two, “Navigating the New Norm,” Elevate Youth Programming sat down with Kelly Gainor from ETR to discuss engaging students, implementing adaptations with fidelity, and maximizing time with participants in a virtual setting. Although pandemic restrictions are lifting, many organizations find themselves continuing to navigate fully remote or hybrid learning environments. Some have even…
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.
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.