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.
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.
Learn about Indigenous methodologies and how to incorporate these approaches into your evaluations with Indigenous communities and other populations.