 Mind Matters – Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience Adversity in childhood can affect people for the rest of their lives. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience equips youth and adult serving programs with powerful tools to help their clients move past the effects of adverse experiences. This new curriculum increases teen and young adults’ ability to self-regulate, self-soothe, and more fully participate in other skill-building classes. As students learn the skills and strategies in Mind Matters, they can begin to say, “I am not a victim of what happened to me.”
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 Love Notes EBP training in Louisville with Dr. Anita Barbee. August 7 – 9. Love Notes EBP in-depth training is a great value especially for individuals and small staff teams. Love Notes is based on a completely new theory of change to prevent pregnancy. EBP training builds competence and confidence in instructors to deliver this innovative tool with fidelity in order to replicate the strong results of the University of Louisville study. For more information, call Cathy Guidry at 800-695-7975.
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A Deeper Dive: Teen Pregnancy Prevention Issues  US teen birth rate drops to all-time low In the United States, teen-aged moms are increasingly rare. In 2016, the teen birth rate dropped 9% compared to the previous year, a new government report published Friday found. This record low for teens having babies continues a long-term trend. The birth rate among teen girls has dropped 67% since 1991, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which presented preliminary data for 2016 based on a majority (99.9%) of births.
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 Trump administration cuts short anti-teen pregnancy grants Dozens of teen pregnancy prevention programs deemed ineffective by President Donald Trump’s administration will lose more than $200 million in funding following a surprise decision to end five-year grants after only three years. The administration’s assessment is in sharp contrast with that of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which credited the program with contributing to an all-time low rate of teen pregnancies.
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 Members of Congress Ask HHS About Abruptly Shortened TPP Program Grants. Members of both houses have sent letters to HHS about the abrupt end to TPP Program grants. The letters from 37 Senators and 149 Representatives, as well as one from 9 members of the Texas delegation, inquire into the rationale for cutting short these TPP Program grants—especially as it preempts Congressional action on FY 2018 appropriations and flies in the face of federal commitments to evidence and evaluation.
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 Trump team doesn't understand evidence-based policies regarding social problems – Ron Haskins and Robert Gordon Last summer, the first set of 41 TPP projects published their results after several years of implementing their model prevention programs. As many as 40 percent of the projects produced at least one significant impact in reducing either a behavior associated with sexual activity or reducing pregnancy itself. Comparing this figure with the expected success rate of 10 percent to 20 percent for most replications of social programs shows that the field is making progress. No one should conclude that TPP has produced a total victory, but in an enterprise where failure is common, TPP shows two important things.
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 Using Relationship Education to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program grantees continue to change the lives of young people. The links below showcase the work being done by three of ten grantees who are utilizing Dibble’s Love Notes Evidence Based Program with federal TPP funding, which has now been shortened by two years. Florida Trinity Church Plan Be____ Trinity Church Plan Be____ Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (Print - PDF) South Carolina Mary Black Foundation The Mary Black Foundation's Connect Initiative to Reduce Teen Pregnancy (Print - PDF) West Virginia Mission West Virginia Mission West Virginia's Teaching Health Instead of Nagging Kids (THINK) (Print - PDF)
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From our Archives October 2016
Why “Love Notes EBP” Works as a Relationship-Based Pregnancy Prevention Program
Presenter: Anita Barbee, Ph.D., University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work, Program Director of CHAMPS! (Creating Healthy Adolescents through Meaningful Prevention Services). Love Notes October 2016 Webinar
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