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The Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) Program announced the recipients of Basic Center Program (BCP) grant funding for FY2019. BCP funding helps community-based organizations meet runaway and homeless youths' immediate needs with temporary shelter, counseling, crisis intervention, and aftercare services.

FYSB's Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program awarded Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program (General Departmental-Funded) grants for FY2019. The purpose of the SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity.

The FYSB Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (APP) Program announced the recipients of Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant funding for FY2019. Title V Competitive SRAE funding supports projects that provide educational services for youth that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity.

This brief was developed as part of a portfolio of youth-focused projects on sexual risk avoidance and cessation sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The brief presents two initial, complementary conceptual models—one for sexual risk avoidance and a second for sexual risk cessation—that aim to guide efforts to prevent youth risk behaviors and promote optimal health. The models identify a range of factors that research shows may influence youth decision making, sexual behavior, and related outcomes. These influencing factors occur at the environmental, interpersonal, or individual level, and many can be modified through intervention. To this end, the models may be used to guide and support efforts to develop and refine programs, tailor educational messages to youth, and empower parents and other adults to help youth avoid or cease sexual and non-sexual risk behaviors. In particular, the sexual risk cessation conceptual model is supporting the development of a sexual risk cessation program model and related supplemental curriculum module, intended to help sexually-experienced youth avoid sexual activity in the future.

The FY 2020 Coronavirus Supplemental Funding provides one-time funding to support ACF recipients/grantees funded under the CARES Act in preventing, preparing for, and responding to COVID-19. This information sheet provides guidance on reporting required of grantees as recipients of this funding.  

Several of FYSB's APP grantees have submitted questions related to flexibilities in programming, data collection, and the use of federal awarded funds in light of the COVID-19 situation. To address APP grantees' specific programmatic questions and concerns, FYSB has provided responses to several frequently asked questions.  

This webinar, recorded August 20, 2020, features a live panel discussion on how to use data to measure social capital and build connections for vulnerable youth.