This review examined whether there is evidence that brief interventions with condom demonstration lessons have impacts on behavioral and nonbehavioral outcomes for youth and young adults.
The purpose of this tip sheet is to provide tips for SRAE and similar programs that seek to design and implement peer-based strategies.
This brief summarizes a technical work group meeting examining the use of peers in SRAE programs.
This fact sheet summarizes grant recipients’ experiences related to their work environments, communication, technology use, staffing, implementation, and data collection as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This study examined theoretically selected predictors of repeat teen pregnancy at the individual, relationship, family, and community or environmental levels. In addition, it examined whether these factors can accurately predict whether teen mothers will have a repeat pregnancy.
This snapshot is based on an online survey of SRAE grantees conducted in summer 2020 by Mathematica.
This brief describes how the Title V State, Title V Competitive, and General Departmental SRAE grantees planned and prepared for their SRAE programs using data Mathematica collected through an online survey in summer 2020 of grantees funded at that time.
This brief describes the implementation plans of the two grant programs more often awarded to direct service providers—the Title V Competitive SRAE program and the General Departmental program.
This brief describes the Title V State SRAE grantee program implementation plans and reports data collected through an online survey of 2018 and 2019 Title V SRAE state grantees that Mathematica conducted in summer 2020.
To help reduce teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and their negative consequences, Congress authorized the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). This report describes PREP programs in operation from 2013 to 2017 using grantee-submitted data on performance measures.
This study sought to determine the impact of Healthy Families Healthy Futures (HFHF) enhanced with Steps to Success (STS).
This article introduces the Maternal and Child Health Journal supplement “Supporting Expectant and Parenting Teens: The Pregnancy Assistance Fund,” which draws together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to provide insights into serving expectant and parenting teens through the PAF program.
This systematic review examines the research about programs that aim to support aspects of teen parents’ self-sufficiency by promoting their educational outcomes and healthy birth spacing.
This study explores the program elements and practices that, when used together, improved academic outcomes for New Heights participants and define a possible roadmap for service providers interested in replicating the program’s success.
This article uses an evaluation of New Heights, a school-based program for pregnant and parenting teens in the District of Columbia Public Schools, to illustrate how maternal and child health programs can obtain rigorous evaluations at reasonable cost using extant administrative data.
With funding from the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Division of California redesigned its existing Adolescent Family Life Program (AFLP) for expectant and parenting young women into a more intensive and structured intervention, AFLP with positive youth development....
This study describes current and past Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) grantee approaches for supporting expecting and parenting teen mothers.
This brief highlights a sexual risk avoidance education program examined as part of a case study for the Youth Empowerment Information, Data Collection, and Exploration on Avoidance of Sex (IDEAS) project, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This brief summarizes findings from a random assignment impact study of an adapted version of the Reducing the Risk teen pregnancy prevention curriculum in rural Kentucky.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were adjudicated youth.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were homeless or runaway youth.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that reported at least half of the youth they served were in foster care.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) that primarily served highly vulnerable populations.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors.
This brief summarizes key characteristics of youth participants in programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which aims to reduce teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and associated risk behaviors.
This final report presents two-year impacts of the adapted eight-hour version of Reducing the Risk, a teen pregnancy prevention curriculum, details program costs, and documents the study methods.
This brief summarizes the implementation of New Heights, a program that serves expectant and parenting teens, in Washington D.C. public schools (DCPS). The program is being evaluated as part of the Positive Adolescent Futures study, funded by the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH).
This brief summarizes the impacts of New Heights, a program that serves expectant and parenting teens, in Washington D.C. public schools (DCPS). The program is being evaluated as part of the Positive Adolescent Futures study, funded by the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH).
This report examines short-term impacts from an adapted version of the Reducing the Risk in Kentucky high schools. It is part of a multi-component evaluation of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), led by Mathematica for the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. DHHS.
This issue brief documents the implementation infrastructure that four states—California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina—developed to support implementation of their Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)-funded evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.
This report shares the findings from an impact and implementation study of New Heights, a DC Public Schools program that provides a multi-faceted approach for supporting parenting students’ educational attainment.
This report documents the implementation infrastructure developed in four states—California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
The lessons learned from these challenges laid the groundwork for a second a round of evaluation TA with a second cohort of TPP grantees that began in summer 2015.
The primary goal of the evaluation technical assistance (TA) was to help the grantees and their evaluators produce rigorous evidence of program effectiveness that would meet the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) evidence review standards.
This article highlights the results of the Office of Adolescent Health’s (OAH) substantial investment in rigorous evaluations of teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs.
This report describes early grant implementation among the 17 states and Indian tribes awarded 2013 Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) grants.
As part of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) multicomponent evaluation, Mathematica Policy Research is conducting a random assignment impact study of four PREP-funded programs. Key outcomes of interest include sexual initiation and rates of unprotected sex and pregnancy.
This report describes plans for an impact study of four programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
Congress created the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), an initiative to fund evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, in 2010 to help reduce teen pregnancies and their negative consequences. The evaluation will expand the knowledge base on teen pregnancy prevention programs...
Congress created the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program, in 2010 to help reduce teen pregnancies and their negative consequences.
Systematic reviews are a useful tool for decision makers because they identify relevant studies about the effectiveness of a policy or program of interest, assess the quality of the evidence from the relevant studies, and summarize the valid findings.
This update features answers to frequently asked questions about the role an implementation evaluation plays in supplementing impact evaluation findings in final study reports.
This update features answers to frequently asked questions about starting an effectiveness evaluation, such as gathering consent and collecting baseline data.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under a contract with Mathematica Policy Research, initiated the Pregnancy Prevention Research Evidence Review (PPRER) to identify rigorously evaluated and effective teenage pregnancy prevention program models.
Educators and policymakers have long debated which textbooks and their associated instructional approaches have the greatest impact on student learning in key subjects.
This report presents findings from the Girls Shape the Future study, which was designed to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the Girls Incorporated® Will Power/Won’t Power® curriculum developed to reduce sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections among teenage girls.
High rates of risky sexual behaviors among U.S. adolescents have been a long-standing concern of social policy and research.