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.
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.