Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies

Deadline: 26-Jul-21

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) will be accepting applications from local organizations and entities, including faith-based organizations, to pilot, implement, and test innovative adolescent pregnancy prevention strategies for the Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies (PREIS) program.

This program targets services to high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally underrepresented youth populations. This includes, but is not limited to, youth in foster care, runaway and homeless youth, youth with HIV/AIDS, victims of human trafficking, pregnant and parenting youth who are under 21 years of age and their partners, rural youth, and youth residing in high teen birth rate areas.

Projects are required to:

educate adolescents on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, and
implement at least three of the following six adulthood preparation subjects (APS):
- healthy relationships,
- adolescent development,
- financial literacy,
- parent-child communication,
- educational and career success, and
- healthy life skills.

Funding Information

Estimated Total Funding: $9,600,000
Expected Number of Awards: 12
Award Ceiling: $900,000 Per Budget Period
Award Floor: $600,000 Per Budget Period
Average Projected Award Amount: $750,000 Per Budget Period
Length of Project Period: 60-month project period with five 12- month budget periods

PREIS Program Design

Under the PREIS program, the following requirements must be addressed:

Innovative strategies
Abstinence and contraception
Adulthood Preparation Subjects (APS)
Medically accurate information
Age appropriate information
Culturally appropriate information
Trauma-informed care
Referrals to healthcare and other services

Activities

All required activities for each phase are as follows:

Phase I (12 to 18 months)
- Refine and/or revise intervention and training materials to ensure they are medically accurate, age appropriate, culturally appropriate, and trauma informed
- Fill all staff vacancies and train staff to deliver the intervention
- Finalize Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)s, contracts, and agreements with partners, subrecipients, and implementation sites
- Develop and conduct cognitive testing with youth from the target population on the data collection instruments
- Include FYSB performance measures participant surveys in the final data collection instrument
- Obtain IRB approval for the pilot study
- Develop and receive approval for evaluation abstract, implementation plan, impact evaluation plan
- Obtain consent and assent forms from parents and participants for the pilot study
- Conduct a pilot test of the full intervention and implementation processes
- Incorporate changes to the intervention and implementation processes based on the pilot study
Phase II (Years 2-4)
- Obtain IRB approval for the rigorous evaluation study
- Obtain consent and assent forms from parents and participants for the rigorous evaluation study
- Implement the intervention and activities for the control/comparison group (if applicable)
- Conduct fidelity monitoring and supervision activities
- Employ participant engagement and retention strategies to maximize attendance
- Conduct retention, tracking, and follow-up activities
- Collect and submit federal performance measures data to FYSB
- Collect impact evaluation data
- Complete CONSORT diagrams and baseline equivalence tables, as required
- Develop and finalize a sustainability approach
Phase III (Year 5)
- Continue implementation of the intervention with youth outside of the study (as applicable)
- Complete a lessons learned template
- Develop and finalize the analysis plan that supports the analysis of primary and secondary research questions
- Analyze all outcome data
- Submit and finalize an impact evaluation report to ACF
- Manualize and package all intervention materials
- Implement sustainability activities
- Submit at least one manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal to contribute to research
- Disseminate study findings

Eligibility Criteria

Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
County governments
Special district governments
City or township governments
State governments
Private institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For profit organizations other than small businesses
Small businesses
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Independent school districts
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)