Sexual risk avoidance education (SRAE) is a primary prevention approach that promotes the development of life skills related to healthy relationships, decision making, goal setting, and self-regulation, as well as the benefits of avoiding non-marital sexual activity and other risky behaviors. Mathematica developed a SRAE program model and related brief that provides a framework for designing and implementing SRAE programming for youth that is research-based and informed by the legislation authorizing SRAE grants.
Developed as a companion resource to the SRAE program model brief, this tip sheet provides a high-level overview of SRAE and the SRAE program model, in addition to practical examples of how SRAE grant recipients can use the program model to enhance their efforts to improve youth outcomes. Both the program model and tip sheet were developed as part of a portfolio of youth-focused projects on sexual risk avoidance funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and supported by ACF’s Family and Youth Services Bureau and Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.
