2018 - 2023
Project overview
The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation, or SRAENE, was a five-year project designed to address congressionally mandated Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) research and evaluation objectives. It comprised three distinct projects.
The first project, the National Descriptive Study (NDS), included a nationwide description of how recipients and sub-recipients implement SRAE programs and the outcomes for youth who participated in the programs. The NDS helped ACF tell the story of SRAE and pointed the way to promising program implementation approaches.
The second project, the Program Components Impacts Study (CIS), comprised the implementation of innovative methods to assess the effectiveness of select SRAE program components. All program models are composed of components; components are essential, irreducible parts of programs. The CIS explored program components related to facilitation.
The third project, Data and Evaluation Support, built SRAE grant recipients’ data capacity and supported local evaluations. Data capacity building included a wide range of activities that strengthened these entities’ capacity to use data and research to improve programming and, ultimately, outcomes for youth. Local evaluation support comprised evaluation-focused technical assistance for SRAE grant recipients that conducted local evaluations.
Following the end of SRAENE in 2023, the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation 2.0, or SRAENE 2.0, began to build upon the activities conducted in SRAENE while adding to what is known about SRAE programs by conducting new evaluation activities.
ACF’s Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) and Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) jointly oversaw this project. Mathematica was the contractor.
Point(s) of contact: Calonie Gray (OPRE) and Tia Brown (OPRE)
Information collections related to this project have been reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under OMB #0970-0530. Related materials are available on the SRAENE information collection page on RegInfo.gov.
The most currently approved documents are accessible by clicking on the ICR Ref. No. with the most recent conclusion date. To access the information collections (e.g. interviews, surveys, protocols), click on View Information Collection (IC) List. Click on View Supporting Statement and Other Documents to access other supplementary documents.