As an Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) program administrator, recruiting and retaining a committed and capable team is one of the most important things you can do to ensure the long-term success of your program. However, stress, burnout, and social isolation among staff, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, have brought about challenges for many administrators who rely on educators and…
This concise infographic spells out the numerous benefits that Positive Youth Development (PYD) can have for youth and helps you empower the youth you serve to build on their strengths to develop leadership skills and positive relationships within their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups, and families. Discover how you can create an environment that fosters the development of seven…
This evaluation report presents findings from a large-scale demonstration project and evaluation of Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy's POWER Through Choices (PTC) program. The PtC program is a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum designed to address the needs and risks specific to youth in out-of-home care, including youth living in foster care and juvenile justice facilities.…
Youth leadership development is a process that prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and experiences which help them gain skills and competencies. Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) projects are uniquely positioned to offer opportunities for youth leadership development through offerings such…
This evaluation report presents findings from a large-scale demonstration project and evaluation of OhioHealth's Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (T.O.P.P.) program. The T.O.P.P. program is an innovative, new clinic-based intervention that aims to reduce rapid repeat pregnancies among expectant and parenting adolescent females. The 18-month intervention employs a unique combination of telephone-…
On October 25, 2023, FYSB presented a Grant Management Training Webinar, in which Roni Brooks and Girma Araya, Grants Management Specialists from the Office of Grants Management (OGM), provided grantees with a comprehensive overview of the following:OGM Role, Responsibilities, and ServicesGrants Policies & RegulationsPayment Management System (PMS)Submission of Federal Financial Status…
Participant recruitment is a critical component of successful Personal Responsibility Education Programs (PREP) and requires planning and attention. Similarly, keeping youth engaged and connected during programming is important for program fidelity and ensuring youth receive the benefits of the program. During this webinar, attendees heard from grantees that are working in non-school settings…
On Monday, December 11th, 2023, presenters Taya McMillan and Brian Southwell from RTI shared information with Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grantees on the topic of gaining community support for sexual health programming. This webinar explored concepts, approaches, and recommendations to mitigate distrust, misinformation, and other challenges that surround sexual health programming.…
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.
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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.
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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.
Your staff is the heart of your program so attracting qualified applicants with knowledge and understanding of SRAE, streamlining the hiring process, and keeping your staff engaged are all key to a successful SRAE program. This webinar provides a view from the field with practical lessons learned and helpful strategies for successfully recruiting, hiring, engaging, and developing staff for…
This youth-focused infographic describes characteristics of relationships, ranging from healthy to unhealthy to abusive. It provides tips and strategies to support healthy relationships and resolve conflicts, as well as resources youth can reach out to for help.
The Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) published conceptual models that identify a range of factors that research shows may influence youth decision making, sexual behavior, and related outcomes.
This training (Part 1) provides facilitators with relevant information and activities to create an engaging learning environment and incorporates skills-based learning with an emphasis on providing a positive learning environment in the classroom. There is also a focus (Part 2) on increasing engagement during content delivery through skills and strategies to foster interactive communication for…
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 training [32 slides] was originally presented by Mary Anne Mosack & Connie Huber, Public Strategies, on January 28, 2020 at the FYSB SRAE T&TA Topical Training, "Facilitating Sexual Risk…
Data suggest that there may be common underlying risk factors for both early substance use initiation and risk of early, unplanned pregnancy. This tip sheet provides an overview of substance use among pregnant and parenting youth along with its impact and strategies for addressing substance use among pregnant and parenting youth.
This resource guide provides information and resources that the Children’s Bureau and Family and Youth Services Bureau promote to encourage the healthy development of children and youth in foster care. The goal of this resource guide is to illustrate how the collaboration between these two Administration for Children and Families agencies serves as a model to enhance services to this vulnerable…
Youth involved in the juvenile justice system are often those most in need of pregnancy prevention information and support. This tip sheet focuses specifically on understanding the juvenile justice system and experiences of youth in the system to highlight opportunities for PREP grantees to develop and sustain engaging interventions for these youth.
This resource guide provides grantees with information and guidance to develop protocols and procedures to effectively manage federal funding. Additionally, this guide addresses strategies for overcoming common challenges and strategies for effective and efficient partner and sub-awardee oversight.
Interested in increasing your capacity to deliver trauma-sensitive approaches? This presentation provides practical approaches for adolescent pregnancy prevention grantees, parents/caregivers, and communities. After reviewing this webinar, you will be able to describe a Human-Centered Integrated Model; provide strategies on how to support effective, positive youth development; define trauma-…
Want to help connect youth to the services and support they need? Youth can face tough situations, like eviction and traumatic events, with which they need support. Review this webinar to learn how you can develop a strong referral network, what steps you can take for making effective referrals, and how to apply effective referral network strategies to adolescent pregnancy prevention program…
A community saturation approach works to ensure comprehensive key message coverage across a community. This Sourcebook presents a targeted communication strategy to empower youth-serving program providers with recommended activities to equip youth with information that reinforces the benefits of sexual risk avoidance (SRA) and promotes healthy outcomes for youth. The toolkit is a companion…
This toolkit provides you with strategies to connect with parents and caregivers and provide them with information and resources to support a positive relationship with their adolescents. It will also help you reach out to parents and caregivers to gain their support and involvement in your programming.
The toolkit is an interactive pdf that includes planning tips, assessment questions, action…
This webinar provides the Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program grantees with information to support grant administration and program implementation, as well as information on the types of support and assistance available to grantees. Additionally, FYSB project officers reviewed the program requirements and were available to respond to questions posed during the…
Teen sexting can carry with it harmful and lasting consequences, and most teens are unaware of the legal implications of sending a sext without consent. This infographic highlights what sexting is, why it is risky, and how teens can protect themselves and others from the harmful effects of sexting.
This 90-minute webinar includes a panel discussion on assessing and enhancing curriculum with select A-F topics around the benefits of refraining from non-marital sexual activity. The A-F topics are all interrelated in empowering youth to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity and to experience the benefits of that choice.
Included are Tip Sheets, discussed in the webinar, that…
This webinar took place on December 16, 2020 and focuses on considerations for PREIS grantees as they work to package their curriculum. Presenters share frameworks for dissemination, strategies to support scaling innovative programs, and lessons learned from their own packaging and dissemination efforts. FYSB also offers guidance for finalizing, packaging, and disseminating findings.
This APS Resource Guide provides information based upon research conducted to formulate conceptual models for the six APSs and is intended to serve as a resource for PREP implementation. Each APS section in this guide may be considered stand-alone, although some topics and conceptual models have overlapping components. Each section includes the relevant conceptual model and definition, key topics…
This online training consists of two parts. Part 1 covers key definitions and concepts related to commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking, factors that can place young people at higher risk for sex trafficking, and implications for youth education and support service needs and health outcomes. Part 2 delves into the emerging trend of youth trafficking their peers; explores the impact…
This tip sheet provides quick facts about parent-child communication, strategies for incorporating parent-child communication topics into your APP program, specific examples, and resources for further reading. Original publication: May 2016.
This session defines personal agency and includes discussion on the importance of personal agency in the developing adolescent and how using the arts and other creative outlets can help enhance their sense of self-regulation and personal power.
In this session, groups share strategies for building assets that move youth toward positive health outcomes in the context of human flourishing research and the holistic approach used in SRAE.
This session shares updates on the We Think Twice campaign and new SRAE products that can be integrated into programming with youth and engagement with parents. We Think Twice is grounded in research and driven by teen voices. The campaign team has conducted formative research to better understand how teens currently use social media, how practitioners and grantees use social media in their…
This session reviews the legislative criteria that guides SRAE programming, including the rationale for the required components and topics to be covered and the importance of ensuring that program staff and facilitators contextualize curricula and messaging in SRAE’s Optimal Health Model.
This infographic is designed to be shared directly with youth in your programs. It explains, using youth-friendly language, how to safely meet and interact with peers and potential romantic partners through social media. It also includes resources and hotlines for youth to learn more about digital safety and how to obtain confidential support if they have experienced digital dating abuse.
Evidence-based interventions provide educators with a roadmap to convey vital information to students. If your organization has been using the same program for a number of years, you may find you need to switch things up. Innovative Teaching Methods is an umbrella term for teaching methods that can improve participation, student engagement, and retention of information and create more student-…