The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) is one of the largest federally funded programs designed to address adolescent pregnancy. PREP grantees have flexibility in designing and implementing programs, provided they adhere to certain requirements specified in the legislation, including educating youth on at least three of six adulthood preparation subjects (APSs): adolescent development, healthy life skills, educational and career success, parent-child communication, financial literacy, and healthy relationships. Incorporating the APSs into PREP programming is important for pregnant and parenting youth, who might need supports in areas beyond, but related to, preventing repeat pregnancies. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation brief explores how APS programming might be tailored to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting youth participating in PREP.

Sexual risk avoidance education (SRAE) is a primary prevention approach that promotes the development of life skills related to healthy relationships, decision making, goal setting, and self-regulation, as well as the benefits of avoiding non-marital sexual activity and other risky behaviors. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation tip sheet highlights several practical examples of how the model can be used by practitioners, such as: 

• Referring to the program inputs to ensure that key topics, resources, and systems are in place for successful SRAE programming;
• Using the implementation outputs as measures to monitor program fidelity and continuously improve programs over time; and
• Reviewing expected outcomes to ensure programming targets the factors that research shows are associated with the avoidance of sexual activity among youth.

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant program—a federally funded adolescent pregnancy prevention initiative administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau—teaches youth how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The primary audience for this Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report includes those who support SRAE program efforts nationwide, including federal staff, state staff, and provider organizations.

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant program—a federally funded adolescent pregnancy prevention initiative administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau—teaches youth how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation toolkit provides information on instruments that SRAE grant recipients can use to measure youth engagement in SRAE programs and what facilitators do in the classroom that promotes this engagement. Measuring youth engagement and facilitator quality may inform program improvement efforts.

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant program—a federally funded adolescent pregnancy prevention initiative administered by the Family and Youth Services Bureau—teaches youth how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation brief highlights the experiences of youth that attended SRAE programs.

The Administration for Children and Families funded a rigorous evaluation of an adapted, eight-hour version of Reducing the Risk, teen pregnancy prevention curriculum in rural Kentucky, in 13 high schools. The program was delivered by trained staff from two local health departments in Kentucky with federal grant funding from one of the largest federally funded programs designed to address adolescent pregnancy, Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation brief provides a final summary of key implementation and impact findings from the evaluation of the adapted version of Reducing the Risk in Kentucky.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) sent a letter to state administrators of the TANF program, reminding them it is prohibited to provide benefits to illegal aliens. This ACF press release highlights the letter, Identifying and Ending Welfare for Illegal Aliens, to inform readers that the Trump Administration is working to identify and cease taxpayer subsidies to illegal aliens in contravention of law.

Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) restricts the eligibility of non-U.S. nationals (aliens) for many federal benefit programs. It applies to federal health care, housing, welfare, unemployment, and retirement benefits, as well as many other types of federal benefits. This Congress report explains the PWRORA restrictions on alien eligibility and lists which federal benefit programs are subjected to said restrictions, including TANF.

SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides point in time legal status and naturalized/acquired U.S. citizenship information to federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal agencies. Approximately 1,200 agencies nationwide use SAVE to support their benefit eligibility and licensing determinations. This includes agencies such as those that provide health care benefits, social security benefits, education grants and assistance, state driver’s licenses and ID cards, and occupational and professional licenses.

SAVE is an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that provides point in time legal status and naturalized/acquired U.S. citizenship information to federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal agencies. Approximately 1,200 agencies nationwide use SAVE to support their benefit eligibility and licensing determinations. This includes agencies such as those that provide health care benefits, social security benefits, education grants and assistance, state driver’s licenses and ID cards, and occupational and professional licenses.

This USCIS webpage offers resources to prospective agencies, including the eligibility requirements to register for SAVE, the registration process, and webinar and tutorial opportunities.