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PREP Performance Indicators: Youth Participants’ Characteristics and Outcomes

Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Evaluation, OPRE Report #2018-22
Published: Apr 30, 2018
Publisher: Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Human Services Family Support Youth Development

Associated Project

Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

Time frame: 2011–2020

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families

Clients

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Authors

Lara Hulsey

Susan Zief

Lauren Murphy

Key Findings

Key Findings:

  • Most youth served by PREP reported being White, Black or African American, or Hispanic.
  • The majority of youth served were 13 to 16 years old. PREP programs operated primarily through schools during school hours.
  • Youth reported positive outcomes from participating in programs including being more prepared for adulthood, less likely to have intercourse, and more likely to use condoms and birth control if they had sex.
  • Youth perceived programs to be high quality.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of youth participants in programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors. PREP is administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Funding is awarded to states and territories through formula grants (State PREP), and through a competitive process to tribes and tribal entities (Tribal PREP) and to direct service providers in states and territories that did not take State PREP funding (Competitive PREP).

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