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…
Dissemination involves making information about your project available to and usable by others (CDC, 2018). This tip sheet is designed to help Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees disseminate the results of their evaluation activities. It guides grantees through various decisions that need to be made, including what information to disseminate, the audience and format for this…
This tip sheet provides a description of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), their implications for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention programs, and useful resources for educators and organizational leaders to address ACEs and associated health conditions.
Remaining faithful to the program model is critical to Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) programs. This tip sheet can ensure your program is as effective as possible by helping you maintain fidelity to proven strategies.
This tip sheet focuses on domestic minor sex and labor trafficking in the United States and the implications for adolescent sexual, physical, and mental health. It also includes multiple resources and information about human trafficking for providers who work with or on behalf of youth.
This resource guide is designed to support building collaboration beyond the adolescent sexual and reproductive health field, by using the social-ecological model. This framework encourages educators to shift the focus from individual behavior to a broader understanding of the many factors that influence health outcomes, taking both an individual- and a population-level approach. Using the social…
This engaging lesson, designed to supplement your school’s or organization’s youth programming, will help youth learn the difference between peer influence and peer pressure, test their knowledge about peer norms and correct misperceptions.
Youth will work together to identify strategies for recognizing and resisting future peer influence and pressure, including strategies to remind themselves…
The toolkit is a how-to guide that provides youth-serving program providers with practical information, guidance, and recommendations on how to implement a community saturation approach aimed at promoting behavior change through a coordinated messaging approach. The toolkit is a companion resource to the Community Saturation Sourcebook.
There is not a specific Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) curriculum that covers all Adulthood Preparation Subject (APS) topics. Yet, the integration of APS into existing curricula is essential for teaching life skills that prevent or reduce unintended teen pregnancy. This webinar focused on the three most popular APS topics - Adolescent Development, Healthy Relationships, and…
Experts and practitioners provided training on the most recent research on cyberbullying as well as related prevention. Grantees also learned about how they might address cyberbullying within their Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) programming.
During this webinar grantees learned the various purposes of sharing data and how that informs what is shared, identified relevant outcomes and indicators, discovered strategies for how to best share data with stakeholders, and reviewed products developed by other grantees.
Education on APS topics are much more than "add-ons" to PREP programming, but instead, lay the foundation for teaching adolescents important life skills that help prevent or reduce the risk of unintended teen pregnancy. This Ted Talk presented grantees with specific strategies they can implement to better incorporate the financial literacy APS into their program. It includes narratives that…
During this webinar, expert facilitators underscored the importance of having a victim-centered and empowering approach, identifying key components of a human trafficking protocol, and providing helpful tips on how to implement a protocol in a variety of settings and with diverse populations.
Partnering with schools is a practical approach to reaching a large number of youth with quality programming. This tip sheet includes key considerations for approaching and engaging schools in APP work.
Dissemination is increasingly recognized as an important component of the research process, particularly for sharing results with a broad audience. This tip sheet is meant to complement the Disseminating Evaluation Results tip sheet that provides key planning activities Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grantees can use to share results. The overall goal of the tip sheet is to…
This tip sheet provides clear strategies on how to develop effective and efficient sustainable programs, common challenges to sustaining programs, and suggestions to overcome challenges.
This hands-on lesson, designed to supplement your school’s or organization’s youth programming, will help you guide youth in discovering what they love to do and what gives them a sense of purpose. Youth will identify opportunities and resources to become involved in healthy and meaningful activities such as sports, clubs, music, art, internships, or volunteer opportunities.
By…
Choosing your words and actions carefully can make a world of difference in relationships. This infographic asks youth to picture a challenging moment with a friend, significant other, family member, teacher, or coach and think about how they will be their best self.
Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and is important for communicating the story your data tells about your programming efforts. This infographic is designed to assist grantees in deciding on the type of visualization to use as well as good data visualization practices. It also includes a link to 10 free data visualization tools for beginners. Original publication…
This SRAE webinar provides tips and strategies on how to improve your program’s recruitment and delivery of services to youth involved in foster care and the juvenile justice system. The webinar [34 slides] was originally presented on July 23, 2020, by Lynette Tannis, Ed.D. and Bill Hancock, M.S.
How do you reach underserved youth? What can you do to overcome the challenges in reaching youth with incarcerated parents or those whose parents are migrant workers? This webinar provides ideas, tips, and strategies to identify and recruit these groups of underserved youth within your communities. This webinar [39 slides] was originally presented on August 13, 2020, and was moderated by Connie…
Would you like some tips to engage parents in the SRAE message? This tip sheet offers information to assist parents as they engage with their youth to promote optimal health.
Dr. John Van Epp, Founder and President, Love Thinks, provides research on healthy relationship formation, predictors of successful marriage outcomes, and non-marital sexual practice and related outcomes in personal and relational health.
This webinar [58 slides] was originally presented on July 9, 2020 by Dr. John Van Epp, Founder and President, Love Thinks; and Connie Huber, Project…
Are you looking for a visual that communicates the Success Sequence? This infographic and accompanying guide offer tips to meet youth where they are and share a pathway toward optimal health and self-sufficiency.
You can also print the infographic to display.
Our keynote speaker, Horacio Sanchez, guides participants through a presentation detailing what current neuroscience research says about the human brain’s ability to build and strengthen protective factors in youth. Sanchez also discusses how you can incorporate this resiliency research within Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and other youth service programs. This webinar [88 slides] was…
This tip sheet covers why sustainability matters and concrete strategies for increasing your project's sustainability. Publication date: February 2021.
In this TED-style talk, expert facilitators underscore the roles young fathers can play in the lives of their children. The facilitators also discuss how you can build supports for and knock down barriers to positive father-child engagement within your Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). This webinar [16 slides] was originally presented by Child Trends on April 30, 2020.
PREP grantees can use this tip sheet to help develop a social media strategy that supports their pregnancy prevention efforts. The tip sheet includes recent statistics on how youth use social media, a framework for implementing a social media campaign, an overview of key social media platforms, as well as additional resources and references on social media engagement.
Parents and other caregivers of adolescents play a key role in supporting young people and helping them navigate adolescence as they transition toward adulthood. This is particularly important during times of stress and change, such as the current public health pandemic that has upended the regular routines of adolescents and families. This tip sheet provides you with strategies you can use to…
Social media networks are some of the most powerful communications channels available to Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) programs. This tip sheet describes the steps for establishing a strong social media presence and provides guidance on how to strategically deploy social media to enhance relationships with stakeholders and partners.
The new We Think Twice website has resources to help youth form healthy relationships, set goals, and feel confident in their decision not to have sex, use drugs, drink, smoke, or engage in other risky behaviors.