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.
This brief describes a program model for implementing sexual risk avoidance programming for youth that is research-based (Inanc et al. 2020) and also informed by the legislation authorizing SRAE grants.
This brief presents two complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health.
This brief presents two initial, complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health.
This report describes the implementation and impact study findings from an evaluation of the relative effectiveness of two approaches to providing job search assistance to cash assistance recipients in Sacramento County, California.
This brief highlights a sexual risk avoidance education program examined as part of a case study for the Youth Empowerment Information, Data Collection, and Exploration on Avoidance of Sex (IDEAS) project, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This report describes in detail how researchers, policymakers, and program administrators can recognize opportunities for experiments and carry them out.
This report introduces human services program operators to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and provides guidance on how to conduct them.
POWER Through Choices 2010 is a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum designed to address the unique risks of youth in foster care and other out-of-home care settings.
This executive summary provides a brief overview of the implementation study findings from the evaluation of Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (T.O.P.P.) in Columbus, Ohio.
Although teen births rates in the United States have been on the decline in recent years, they are still the highest in the industrialized world.
This article in a special supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health draws on data from the ongoing federal Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches to discuss the early implementation experiences of two new and innovative programs in California and Ohio intended to delay rapid repeat...
This report presents 30-month impact and benefit-cost analysis findings for the Building Nebraska Families program, an intensive home visitation and life skills education program for hard-to-employ TANF clients in rural Nebraska.