New Findings on Programs Designed to Help Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy

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Mathematica Policy Research issued three new briefs to document lessons learned from implementing the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), which educates youth on abstinence and contraception. These briefs are part of a multi-component evaluation on PREP that Mathematica is conducting for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. One brief focuses on a teen pregnancy prevention program in rural Kentucky, another details a boys-only teen pregnancy prevention program in Iowa, and the third brief examines how California, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina developed infrastructure to support PREP programming. Each brief includes findings on how PREP implementation differed at each site.
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2025-01-01T00:00:00
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https://www.mathematica-mpr.com/news/new-findings-on-programs-designed-to-help-…
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2017-05-25
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Research Shows Importance of “Success Sequence"

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Young adults are more likely to avoid poverty if they follow a “success sequence” in this order: earning at least a high school diploma, working full-time, and getting married before having children. This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families describes a recent report from the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies about millennials following this success sequence. The researchers found that 95% of millennials who married first before having children were not poor, but 72% of millennials who had children before marrying were poor. Millennials were also more likely to make it into the middle or higher end of the income distribution by age 28-34 if they married before having children. The blog post also describes ACF programs that can prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancy and promote healthy marriages.
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2017-06-22T20:00:00
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2017/06/research-shows-importance-of-success-seque…
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2017-06-23
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Stability-instability of low-income Hispanics?: Findings from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) reviews three papers exploring the stability or instability of Hispanic families, including household composition, family structure changes, and income instability.

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2016-05-31T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-01

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) 2017 Annual Meeting: Cultivating Connections: The Importance of Relationships in Adolescent and Young Adult Health

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Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM)
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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http://www.adolescenthealth.org/Meetings/2017-Annual-Meeting.aspx
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National
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Family Strengthening
Healthy Relationships and Marriage
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Health/Behavioral Health Referrals and Supports
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Webinar Materials: Healthy Romantic Relationships and Teen Pregnancy Prevention

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This webinar from the Office of Adolescent Health explained that the broad goal of Relationship Education (RE) programs for adolescents is to impart a combination of knowledge, values, and skills believed necessary to establish healthy romantic relationships. Relationships are important for healthy development of youth, and romantic relationships during adolescence can set the stage for relationship behavior throughout life in regards to school, employment, peer, and pregnancy prevention. The teaching of heathy relationships and Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) in RE programs can foster social skills by bringing together peer groups, teaching communication and conflict skills, and teaching teens to set boundaries.
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2014-02-19T07:00:00
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http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/snippets/508%20documents/healthyrelationshipswebinar…
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2014-02-19

Prevalence and experiences: Intimate partner violence prevalence and experiences among healthy relationship program target populations

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This paper summarizes research on the prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among the target populations for adult healthy relationship programs. The purpose is to provide practitioners with information on their program populations to support their efforts in addressing program participants’ experiences with IPV.

This is the first in a series of papers from the Responding to Intimate Violence in Relationship Programs (RIViR) project, which aims to understand how to best identify and address IPV in the context of healthy relationship programming. (author abstract)

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2016-05-09T20:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/prevalence-experiences-intimate-partner-vi…
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2016-05-10

Serving young fathers in home visiting programs: Highlights from a research study

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This brief summarizes findings from a qualitative research study that explored the strategies five home visiting programs use to engage fathers and the fathers’ experiences with the programs. Interviews with program staff and clients revealed that young fathers’ motivations to participate are similar to those of older and experienced fathers, and that they benefit similarly from the program. However, young fathers present unique challenges, including relationship instability, family resistance, logistics, and developmental immaturity. The lessons programs shared may help other programs that serve low-income families in their efforts to engage young fathers. (author abstract)

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2014-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/serving-young-fathers-home-visiting-highli…
http://www.urban.org/research/publication/serving-young-fathers-home-visiting-p…
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2015-01-01

A snapshot of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education programs for youth

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This fact sheet provides descriptive characteristics of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education programs serving youth, characteristics of those served, and the most commonly used curricula, program goals, and expected outcomes. (author abstract)

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2014-12-31T19:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/a-snapshot-of-healthy-marriage-and-relatio…
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2015-01-01

Family strengthening research: FY 2015

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This report describes the major research investments of our Division of Family Strengthening through Fiscal Year 2015. This division has primary responsibility for research and evaluation projects related to strengthening relationships within families, supporting fatherhood, nurturing children through their families, reducing teen pregnancy, supporting youth in their transition to adulthood, and preventing family violence.

This report presents the research organized into six different sections, showing the breadth of our family strengthening research. These sections include:

  • Supporting Fatherhood
  • Strengthening Relationships
  • Nurturing Children Through Families
  • Supporting Positive Youth Development And Reducing Teen Pregnancy
  • Preventing Family Violence
  • Other and Cross-Cutting Research (author abstract)
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2016-03-07T19:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/family-strengthening-research-fy-2015
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2016-03-08

Evaluation of the Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and their Partners

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As part of the Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and their Partners (MFS-IP), twelve grantees received funding from the Office of Family Assistance to implement activities to support and sustain marriages and families of fathers during and after incarceration. Grantees also provided reentry, parenting, education, and employment services. The evaluation includes publications such as research briefs, reviews of promising practices, and implementation data.
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2015-11-01T19:00:00
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https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/evaluation-marriage-and-family-strengthening-…
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2015-11-02