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December 2022

DIBBLE NEWS

Impact of Love Notes on Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Now Available! Love Notes 4.0 and Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0

THE LATEST

Preventing Births to Teens Is Associated With Long-term Health and Socioeconomic Benefits
Does a Longer Sexual Resume Affect Marriage Rates?
First Impressions Are Everything When It Comes to Dating

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Moving In Together Doesn’t Match the Financial Benefits of Marriage, But Why?
WEBINAR: Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services: Highlights from the STREAMS Evaluation

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

The Adolescent Brain Infographic
The Language of Resilience

NEWS FOR YOU

Self-Awareness Can Improve Relationships. Here Are Tips to Build It.
Managing vs. Resolving Conflict in Relationships: The Blueprints for Success
Job Opening at New Mexico State University Extension

FUNDING STREAMS

DIBBLE NEWS

Preventing Births to Teens Is Associated With Long-term Health and Socioeconomic Benefits

Despite declines over the last three decades, nearly 172,000 teens had a child in 2019, and the historical and social contexts that have contributed to persistent disparities in teen birth outcomes cannot be ignored. This brief describes the result of a simulation on the effects of preventing births to teenagers on the teens’ long-term well-being. The simulation found positive effects on education, physical and mental health, earnings, poverty, and lifetime income when births to teens are prevented.

Impact of Love Notes on Teen Pregnancy Prevention

In a federally funded random control trial utilizing Reducing the Risk and Love Notes, researchers from the University of Louisville found that pregnancies were cut in half 12 months after instruction for youth randomly assigned to Love Notes! Love Notes is a unique program because it actually impacts pregnancy outcomes!

Now Available! Love Notes 4.0 and Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0

Featuring new and up-to-date content, Love Notes 4.0 and Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 continue to use a strengths-based approach to teach healthy relationship and life skills to young people.

New content includes:

Navigating relationships in the digital age,
Sex trafficking prevention, plus
Streamlined activities that provide greater interaction.
And more!

Ask us for a 30-day free review copy of Love Notes and/or Relationship Smarts PLUS.

THE LATEST

Does a Longer Sexual Resume Affect Marriage Rates?

A paper just published in Social Science Research, provides a more definitive answer to this question. And it’s fairly straightforward: premarital sex indeed reduces the chances of marriage, but only in the short term. In the long term, your full sexual history doesn’t matter.

First Impressions Are Everything When It Comes to Dating

No pressure, but researchers from the University of California-Davis find first impressions matter big time in the dating world. Their study reveals that first impressions of both compatibility and popularity are very influential in shaping the people we choose to pursue as potential romantic partners.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Moving In Together Doesn’t Match the Financial Benefits of Marriage, But Why?

Over the past two decades, Americans are moving in together at higher rates, according to data from Pew Research Center. The share of U.S. adults who are currently married steadily declined from close to 60% in the 1990s to under half in 2019, according to Pew. Over the same period, the share of adults age 18 to 44 living with a partner climbed to 59%. Married couples are four times as wealthy as unmarried couples who live together, but why?

WEBINAR: Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services: Highlights from the STREAMS Evaluation

Monday, December 5, 1:00-2:15pm ET

Delivering high quality, effective healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programming is rewarding and challenging work. The 2015 STREAMS evaluation had a specific emphasis on understudied populations and program approaches not covered in ACF’s prior HMRE evaluations, including programs serving youth and individual adults in addition to programs for adult couples. Join this virtual forum for an overview of the evaluation, share findings about programs’ implementation and impacts, and highlight resources that were developed to support current HMRE grantees’ program delivery and evaluation efforts.

TOOLS YOU CAN USE

The Adolescent Brain Infographic

This infographic from RTI International and its partners sheds light on how the adolescent brain thinks differently, and how it experiences novelty and risk taking. Understanding adolescence helps educators and facilitators connect with the youth experience and prepare impactful programs.

The Language of Resilience

Resilience is about bouncing back from challenges and recovering from setbacks. Ideally, the obstacles in our life prepare us to be stronger, finer human beings. Although we’d like to protect our children from what might hurt them, we don’t always have that option. The best we can do is prepare them to handle life even when it gets tough.

NEWS FOR YOU

Self-Awareness Can Improve Relationships. Here Are Tips to Build It.

Psychologists call self-awareness an aspect of emotional intelligence. It’s the capacity to reflect on oneself and “to accurately assess one’s strengths and weaknesses. The other half is being aware of how you affect other people” says a southern California clinical psychologist. Accurately assessing your strengths and weaknesses can guide you to treating yourself and others better.

Managing vs. Resolving Conflict in Relationships: The Blueprints for Success

Trying to solve unsolvable problems is counterproductive, and no couple will ever completely eliminate them. However, discussing them is constructive and provides a positive opportunity for understanding and growth. Let’s look at three “conflict blueprints” to help you and your partner constructively manage conflict around unsolvable problems.

Job Opening at New Mexico State University Extension

The NMSU Department of Extension Family and Consumer Sciences is hiring an Extension Behavioral Health Specialist. Posting Number: 2200218F.

Learn more…

FUNDING STREAMS

FORECASTED

Advancing Equity in Adolescent Health through Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention

Estimated Post Date: December 1, 2022

The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program is a national, evidence-based program that funds diverse organizations working to reach adolescents to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and promote positive youth development. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) anticipates FY2023 funds being available to support cooperative agreements for organizations to advance health equity for adolescents, their family, and communities through the replication and scaling of medically accurate and age appropriate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors. Anticipated funds will be used to serve communities and populations with the greatest needs and facing significant disparities to advance equity in adolescent health through the replication of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs and services.

Learn more…

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Tier 2 Rigorous Evaluation Cooperative Agreements

Estimated Post Date: December 15, 2022
The purpose of the TPP Tier 2 Rigorous Evaluation Cooperative Agreements is to fund rigorous impact and implementation evaluation of promising approaches for preventing teen pregnancy and related risk behaviors. Through the awards, OPA aims to address the changing needs of youth and communities by increasing the number of programs available that are proven to reduce teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and behavioral risk factors underlying teen pregnancy, and to disseminate those interventions that demonstrate effectiveness. OPA is especially interested in funding rigorous evaluations of promising interventions in populations and settings with great need and those that demonstrate significant health disparities, such as, but not limited to, interventions in juvenile justice or foster care/child welfare settings, with expectant and parenting youth, youth with disabilities, with homeless youth, or for caregivers.

Learn more…

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