Engaging youth to make healthy decisions about their lives and futures is an important cornerstone of any adolescent pregnancy prevention program. This webinar helps grantees, community-based organizations, and any person or group that works with youth learn effective strategies to engage youth and empower them to make the best choices for their lives. 

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. The research questions addressed in the brief include:

1. Whom did PREP programs serve?
2. Where did PREP implement programming for youth?
3. How did youth respond to the PREP programs?

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. 

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for adolescents aged 15-24, and almost 20% of high school students have reported thinking about suicide. This webinar provides an overview of the risk factors that can contribute to suicide, particularly among Native American and vulnerable populations of youth, and what resources are available to help prevent suicide among vulnerable youth. 

Strength in Action: Supporting Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Youth is a podcast series by the FYSB APP Program. In the podcast, we talk with people who are implementing programs that prevent teen pregnancy and help teens prepare for adulthood.

In this episode, Elycia Cook, Executive Director of Friends First in Denver, Colorado, joins us for a discussion on the power of investing in our youth through peer-to-peer mentoring. We talk about how setting positive examples for youth helps them plan for a bright future.