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THE LATEST

HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Evidence Review Call for Studies
What’s the Plan? Cohabitation, Engagement, and Divorce
How Does Parental Monitoring Impact Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences?
How Parents Can Actually Help Teens Navigate Social Media?

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Foster Care’s Missing Policies for Sexual and Reproductive Health
Rapid Cycle Learning with HMRE Programs for Youth
Your Brain in Love: How Romantic Attraction Alters the Brain

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

How Parents Can Help Their Kids to Navigate Romance
Co-Regulation: What it is and Why it Matters
Support Your Teen’s Emotional Development

WEBINAR – June 14, 2023

Teen Parenthood Matters:

Let’s Talk About Prevention

FUNDING STREAMS

THE LATEST

HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Evidence Review Call for Studies

Deadline: June 12, 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks studies to include in a systematic review of the evidence base on programs that impact teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV, and associated sexual risk behaviors.

What’s the Plan? Cohabitation, Engagement, and Divorce

Using a new national sample of Americans who married for the first time in the years 2010 to 2019, researchers from the University of Denver examined the stability of these marriages as of 2022 based on whether or not, and when, people had lived together prior to marriage. Consistent with prior research, couples who cohabited before marriage were more likely to see their marriages end than those who did not cohabit before marriage.

How Does Parental Monitoring Impact Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences

A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs) in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Supplements examined associations between parental monitoring and the behaviors and experiences of adolescents. Parental monitoring involves setting boundaries and openly exchanging knowledge/information on the child’s whereabouts, activities, and companions. It is a vital component of the relationship between children and parents and can potentially reduce risk behaviors.

How Parents Can Actually Help Teens Navigate Social Media

The American Psychological Association issued its first-ever guidance on social media use in adolescence last week, a roundup of 10 recommendations for educators, policymakers, tech companies and parents aimed at helping teens engage with the technology in a safe and positive way. But as all parents know, the burden primarily falls on them to monitor and educate their children and to stay on top of technology that is quickly changing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Foster Care’s Missing Policies for Sexual and Reproductive Health

An Imprint review of every state’s publicly available child welfare policy manuals revealed that in many parts of the country there is only scant guidance for caregivers and caseworkers on these vital issues. In dozens of states, there is little or no mention of healthy relationships and sexuality education, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections or the rights of foster youth to access contraception and abortion. In some states, policies have not been updated in decades. In others, rules for foster youth appear to clash with broader reproductive health care rights available to all minors.

Rapid Cycle Learning with HMRE Programs for Youth

This report describes the rapid cycle learning process and findings for the five youth-serving HMRE grantees that participated in SIMR. It shares how each grantee addressed implementation challenges and improved services through participation in SIMR and insights that can help other HMRE grantees strengthen their own service delivery. Another brief of five infographics provides practical tips for implementing motivation-driven case management as part of HMRE services.

Your Brain in Love: How Romantic Attraction Alters the Brain

Romantic crushes can rewire our brains in strange and compelling ways, because love is not just physical – it is also a set of chemical reactions in the brain. Our brains are intricately involved in developing crushes and attraction towards others.

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

How Parents Can Help Their Kids to Navigate Romance

ThisParents can shape their children’s romantic choices with the conversations they have with them when they’re young.

Co-Regulation: What it is and Why it Matters

The Office Planning, Research, & Evaluation recently released a new video providing information on self-regulation, how it develops, and why it is important, as well as why co-regulation matters during adolescence.

Seven Tips for Better Relationship Conversations

Many parents want to know whether their teens’ emotional development is normal. Some worry if it’s too fast or not fast enough. Other parents worry about possible drug use, increased stress, anxiety, or depression. All teenagers (and adults!!) can have a range of emotions and can sometimes be moody. We must understand that teens have a rapidly changing range of emotions. Most of these highs and lows are normal and a result of the way their brains are developing. But as parents, we need to learn to recognize what’s normal and when emotional concerns should be addressed.

WEBINAR

June 14, 2023

Teen Parenthood Matters:
Let's Talk About Prevention
Researchers from Child Trends using the Social Genome Model (SGM) explored how preventing births to teenagers would alter the lives of youth over time. The results show education, economic, and health benefits associated with preventing births to teens – findings that lead to an important question. How is childbearing among teenagers best prevented?

Join Dr. Kristin Moore and Alison McClay as they share decades of experience with varied approaches and highlight how wisdom about preventing teen births has accumulated over time. Information is important, services are important, but motivation is important as well. The presentation will also describe how intervention approaches have evolved over time and outline considerations for future research and programs, including an overview of El Camino, a research-based sexual health promotion program developed by Child Trends.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

Discuss the implications of teenage childbearing;
Describe varied approaches used to discourage sexual activity and pregnancy among adolescents; and
Navigate the positive youth development approach to provide youth with goals that lead them to avoid teen parenthood.

Presenters: Kristin Anderson Moore, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, and Alison McClay, MPH, Senior Research Analyst, of Child Trends.

Who should attend: Federal pregnancy prevention grantees, youth program managers, health and FCS teachers, Extension specialists, community-based organizations, policy makers.

When: Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 4:00pm Eastern/1:00pm Pacific

Duration: 60 minutes

Cost: Free!

FUNDING STREAMS

FY 2023 Runaway and Homeless Youth-Prevention Demonstration Program (RHY-PDP)

Due Date: July 31, 2023

The Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Demonstration Program (RHY-PDP) program supports the design and delivery of community-based demonstration initiatives to prevent youth and young adults from experiencing homelessness. Through development and coordination of partnerships with youth and young adult services providers, community organizations and private and public agencies the RHY-PDP will: 1) Identify young people at risk of experiencing homelessness; 2) Design and develop a comprehensive community prevention plan to prevent youth homeless; 3) Implement the robust, holistic services plan to respond to the diverse needs of youth who may be at risk of homelessness and their families.

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Strategic Prevention Framework – Partnerships for Success for Communities, Local Governments, Universities, Colleges, and Tribes/Tribal Organizations

Due Date: June 5, 2023

The purpose of this program is to help reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems by supporting the development and delivery of community-based substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion services. The program is intended to expand and strengthen the capacity of local community prevention providers to implement evidence-based prevention programs.

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California 2023 Title II Grant Program – Tribal

Deadline: June 9, 2023

Funds from the Title II Grant program have been set aside for federally recognized tribal governments that serve tribal youth, which will be awarded through this Request for Proposal (RFP) process. This grant will target the reduction of the overrepresentation of Tribal youth in contact with the juvenile justice system.

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(Ed. Note: Other Title II grantees have used Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience with this funding.)

Runaway and Homeless Youth - Basic Center Program

Deadline: June 9, 2023

The BCP provides temporary shelter and counseling services to youth who have left home without permission of their parents or guardians, have been forced to leave home, or are experiencing homelessness or housing instability who might otherwise end up in the law enforcement, child welfare, mental health, or juvenile justice systems. BCPs work to establish or strengthen community-based programs that meet the immediate needs of youth who have runaway from home due to family conflict or other crisis or who are experiencing homelessness, and their families. BCP grant recipients provide youth under 18 years of age with emergency shelter, food, clothing, counseling, and referrals for health care.

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Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action

Due Date: June 12, 2023

The three primary goals of this NOFO are to 1) enhance a state-level surveillance infrastructure that ensures the capacity to collect, analyze, and use ACE and PCE data to inform ACE prevention strategies and approaches; 2) support the implementation of data-driven, comprehensive, evidence-based ACE primary prevention strategies and approaches, particularly with a focus on health equity; and 3) conduct data to action activities on an ongoing basis to inform changes or adaptations to existing strategies or selection and implementation of additional strategies.

To support these goals, recipients are expected to leverage multi-sector partnerships and resources to improve ACE and PCE surveillance infrastructures and the coordination and implementation of ACE prevention strategies across the state and, for some recipients, communities within the state. As a result, there will be increased state capacity to develop and sustain a surveillance system that collects, uses, and disseminates data on ACEs and PCEs, including data used to identify health inequities; and increased implementation and reach of ACE prevention strategies that help to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments where children live, learn and play.

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Children and Youth Resilience Challenge

Deadline: July 7, 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched the Children and Youth Resilience Challenge. This initiative invites proposals for community-led solutions to promote the resilience and mental health of children and youth affected by COVID-19 and other disasters. Proposals that advance equity for historically underserved communities are encouraged. Community-based and youth-led organizations, youth-serving entities, and individuals are eligible to apply.

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Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program

Deadline: July 18, 2023

The purpose of the SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The services are targeted to participants that reside in areas with high rates of teen births and/or are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Successful applicants are expected to submit program plans that agree to

1) use medically accurate information referenced to peer-reviewed publications by education, scientific, governmental or health organizations;

2) implement sexual risk avoidance curricula and/or strategies with an evidence-based approach to integrate research findings with practical implementation that aligns with the needs and desired outcomes for the intended audience; and

3) teach the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention, healthy relationships, goal setting, resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other youth risk behaviors such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.

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Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education

Deadline: July 18, 2023

The goal of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program is to provide messages to youth that normalize the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity and other risky behaviors that increase the risk for teen sex. The following objectives of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program are to:

Implement curricula that includes medically accurate information, based on adolescent learning and developmental theories for the age group receiving the education.
Implement SRAE curricula and strategies that are culturally appropriate, recognizing the experiences of youth from diverse communities, backgrounds, and experiences.
Teach risk avoidance skills through methods that do not normalize teen sexual activity.
Target services to youth ages 10 to 19.

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FORECASTED

Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC)

Estimated Post Date: May 31, 2023

The Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) builds upon the program that was initiated in 1995 as one of the key activities under CDC's plan to address emerging infectious disease threats. The purpose of this NOFO is to protect the public health and safety of the American people by enhancing the capacity of public health agencies to effectively detect, respond, prevent and control known an emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases. This is accomplished by providing financial and technical resources to (1) strengthen epidemiologic capacity; (2) enhance laboratory capacity; (3) improve information systems; and (4) enhance collaboration among epidemiology, laboratory, and information systems components of public health departments.

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Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (R01)

Estimated Post Date: May 31, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance understanding of approaches to prevent community violence and eliminate racial and ethnic inequities in risk for community violence. This initiative is intended to support effectiveness research to evaluate innovative programs, practices, or policies to address risk for violence and inequities in risk for violence among groups experiencing a high burden of community violence. Innovative approaches are those that have not been rigorously evaluated for effectiveness in reducing community violence. Consistent with CDC's commitment to achieving health equity, investigation of inequities in exposure to and uptake of the selected approaches, and/or stratified analyses examining the differential impacts of the approach across populations disproportionately impacted by violence is a priority. Funds are available to conduct studies focused on preventing all forms of community violence involving youth or young adults (ages 10-34 years), including assaults, homicides, violence between groups, and threats/use of weapons.The primary objectives we wish to achieve with this initiative are:Objective One: Effectiveness research to evaluate innovative approaches with the potential for immediate or near immediate benefits (i.e., within 6 months) for reducing community violence and racial/ethnic inequities in risk for community violence.Objective Two: Effectiveness research to evaluate innovative place-based prevention approaches for reducing community violence and racial/ethnic inequities in risk for community violence.Objective Three: Effectiveness research to evaluate approaches that improve the social or structural conditions that contribute to community violence and racial/ethnic inequities in risk for community violence.Applicants are asked to clearly indicate in the application's Abstract which objective, or combination of objectives, the research proposal intends to address.

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Rape Prevention Education: PeRPEtual (Promoting Equity in RPE Through Understanding, Action, and Leadership)

Estimated Post Date: June 21, 2023

The first step in submitting an application online is registering your organization at www.grants.gov, the official HHS E-grant Web site. Registration information is located at the "Applicant Registration" option at www.grants.gov.All applicant organizations must register at www.grants.gov. The one-time registration process usually takes not more than five days to complete. Applicants should start the registration process as early as possible.

(Ed. Note: Relationship Smarts PLUS is currently being used for Rape Prevention Education in California!)

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Subject: Call for Studies/Brains in Love/Rapid Cycle Learning