Resources

The BDI Logic Model (Behavior – Determinant – Intervention) was created by Dr. Douglas Kirby. It is a simplified logic model format useful for designing, strengthening and evaluating programs that reduce adolescent sexual risk-taking, pregnancy, HIV and other STDs. For a copy of the worksheet, click here.

Getting To Outcomes – OK! (GTO-OK!) is a simple, 10-step guide for planning, providing, evaluating, improving and sustaining teen pregnancy prevention programs. Updated in 2016, this manual provides an overview of each step, along with resource links and downloadable worksheets.

Oklahoma has approved the Medical Accuracy definition that was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health (October 2009).

The Youth Asset Study was a CDC-funded study by the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy. It explored the relationship between adolescent risk behaviors and protective factors (youth assets). For a summary of the initial 9 Key Assets for a Healthy Teen research, click here. For a summary of the second longitudinal study, click here.

Evidence-Based Programs (EBPs), curricula, and program planning tools are provided by the HHS Office of Adolescent Health and HHS/ Administration for Children and Families. Programs funded by their agencies must be on the EBP list. Numerous programs with strong research outcomes are waiting to be added to the EBP list.

There are numerous Promising Programs and Strategies beyond the federal EBP list. Many show signs of effectiveness, but haven’t had the opportunity or resources for rigorous evaluation. For characteristics of Promising Programs, click here.

PTC: EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS WITH SYSTEM-INVOLVED YOUTH

Power Through Choices (PTC) is an innovative sexual health and life skills education curriculum designed with and for teens living in foster care and juvenile justice settings to reduce risks related to pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among the vulnerable, high-risk population of system-involved youth. A rigorous, 3-state research study of the revised 2nd edition, funded by the HHS Administration on Children and Families and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, clearly documented evidence of effectiveness. Numerous research articles have been published describing PTC outcome findings, including the one below:

Sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of youth living in group homes, Health Behavior and Policy Review.

The special Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Supplement of the American Journal of Public Health (March 2018) featured two articles from the PTC research project. For information about PTC evaluation and research findings, click here.

At the end of the research project, PTC was transferred to the Healthy Teen Network to be part of its Center for Evidence & Innovation. For the PTC story, click here.

For information about upcoming PTC trainings, contact: capacitybuilding@healthyteennetwork.org

COMMUNITIES IN ACTION

Thrive: Sexual Health Collective for Youth is a public-private collaboration to reduce the teen birth rate in Central Oklahoma. Thrive coordinates the implementation of the community-wide teen pregnancy prevention plan, As a Matter of Fact: Central Oklahoma’s Plan to Reduce Teen Pregnancy 2015-2020.  For a copy of the plan, click here.

Oklahoma City-County Health Department has two federally funded teen pregnancy prevention projects: Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Evidence-Based Program (EBP) Replication.

Teen emPower is a nonprofit organization that provides teen pregnancy prevention programs in school and community settings. It emphasizes peer education and the important role teens play as prevention messengers.

Variety Care’s Teen Clinic is a source for teen-friendly health information and services. Variety Care’s health educator teams provide evidence-based prevention programs in school and community settings.

Tulsa Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy provides leadership, resource materials and support to reduce teen pregnancy and increase youth opportunities for success through community partnership development, evidence-based educational programs, teen-friendly health services, training, youth engagement, communication, advocacy and professional development for program providers.

Take Control Initiative empowers young women with the choice of when to have children through education, outreach and clinical services for long acting reversible contraception (LARC). Clinical services are provided free for women of reproductive age who meet qualifying criteria.

Prevention and health programs at Youth Services of Tulsa help youth avoid high-risk behaviors, prevent pregnancy, avoid STIs and achieve positive life goals. Their PregNOT program is provided in housing authority sites, to Youth Services participants and as part of the Juvenile Bureau District Court programs.

Tulsa EBP Replication Project – Youth Services of Tulsa and the Tulsa Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy provide evidence-based programs in Tulsa’s school, community and clinical settings through a federal EBP Replication grant.

The Tulsa Health Department’s PREP (Personal Responsibility Education Program) helps young people make responsible decisions, educating them about the dangers and risks associated with sexual activity and ways to protect their health.

STATE ADVOCACY & POLICY RESOURCES

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