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)
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328908