Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation

2018 - 2023

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Project overview

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation, or SRAENE, is a five-year project designed to address congressionally mandated Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) research and evaluation objectives. It comprises three distinct projects.

The first project, the National Descriptive Study (NDS), includes a nationwide description of how recipients and sub-recipients implement SRAE programs and the outcomes for youth who participated in the programs. The NDS is intended to help ACF tell the story of SRAE and point the way to promising program implementation approaches.

The second project, the Program Components Impacts Study (CIS), comprises 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 attempts to build the evidence-base on the effectiveness of program components.

The third project, Data and Evaluation Support, builds SRAE recipients’ and sub-recipients’ data capacity and supports local evaluations. Data capacity building includes a wide range of activities that strengthen these entities’ capacity to use data and research to improve programming and, ultimately, outcomes for youth. Local evaluation support comprises evaluation-focused technical assistance for SRAE recipients and sub-recipients that are conducting evaluations.

ACF’s Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) and Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) jointly oversee this project. Mathematica is 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.

Related Resources

The Sexual Risk Avoidance National Evaluation: Co-Regulation from the Perspective of Youth

The purpose of this tip sheet is to provide tips for SRAE and similar programs that seek to design and implement peer-based strategies. We developed these tips as part of Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation (SRAENE)—a national evaluation of SRAE programs that included a formative study in understanding how SRAE might use peers. We identified the tips in this sheet based on a technical working group meeting —which included SRAE grantees and other experts— and a targeted review of the literature.

Discover highlights from the SRAENE Technical Working group meeting concerning the potential of peers in sexual risk avoidance programs. 

 

This fact sheet summarizes Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant recipients’ experiences related to their work environments, communication, technology use, staffing, implementation, and data collection as they navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Explore lessons learned from a pilot designed to build the grant recipients’ capacity to engage in CQI and obtain Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant recipients' feedback on tools designed to support service providers’ continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts.

The series reports grantees’ plans for their Sexual Risk Avoidance Education programs.

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Grant Program: Understanding Implementation Experiences.

The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education National Evaluation team developed a video series that provides information on a range of data-related topics aimed at helping grantees collect high-quality data on their programs.

Discover instruments of youth engagement and facilitator quality that SRAE grant recipients can use to augment their data collection activities.

Discover three toolkits to aid Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) grant recipients in implementation evaluations, covering planning, data collection, and analysis for practitioners, evaluators, and researchers.