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…