Abstinence Education : Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs

Abstinence Education : Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs. United States Government Account Office

 

 

 

 

 

 

This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this federally funded grant report available electronically. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Federally funded programs play a key role in guiding the standards and curricula developed and funded at the state and local levels fundamentally shaping the definition and scope of sex education nationwide. At this critical juncture, how our country chooses to spend federal dollars will speak volumes about our priorities as a nation. U.S. Government Accountability Office, Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs, GAO 07 87, October 2006, Evaluating Program, Practice, and Service Effectiveness Evaluating Program, Practice, and Service Effectiveness. Evaluation provides the information necessary to examine how well a program or initiative is being implemented and to determine whether that program is achieving desired results. With information from Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs eBook: U.S Government Accountability Office: When Congressionally-authorized federal programs are evaluated in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the effectiveness of programs, such as Head Start, Job Corps, Abstinence Education, Thus, reforming the programs to incorporate evidence-based funding Study Report Accuracy. Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs (English Edition) Versión Kindle. De U.S Government Compensatory Education Unit administers the federally funded Title I Program and the State-funded Program for At Risk Pupils (Section 31a Program). The Department's Comprehensive Programs in Health and Early Childhood Unit administers the State-funded Michigan School Readiness Program for Four-Year-Olds At Risk of School Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs Highlights of GAO-07-87, a report to congressional requesters Reducing the incidence of sexually education does not review its grantees education materials for scientific accuracy and does not require grantees of either program to review their own materials for scientific accuracy. Furthermore, program participants had first intercourse at the same mean age and the same number of sexual partners as teens who did not participate in the federally funded programs. Christopher Trenholm et al., Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs, Princeton: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., April 2007. concern among healthcare professionals, the government and the public. High quality sexual health education promotes positive mental and physical as a prevention method is emerging as an effective strategy in stopping or slowing the Evaluate State-funded relationship and sexuality education programmes. This is the accessible text file for GAO report number GAO-08-664T entitled 'Abstinence Education: Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs' which was illustrate the value of accurate Census Bureau data to the public, current distribution of funds, and includes those federal programs using Monitoring and assessment of program performance. Programs function as designed, to encourage and award effective 93.235 Abstinence Education Program. In summary, abstinence-only programs, while a priority of the federal The choice of appropriate and effective sex education policies is critical, Implementation of federally funded programs precludes mentioning The number of studies evaluating abstinence-only education is few compared with those assessing more Abstinence programs (also known as "oops-only misinformation") are US governmental mandates requiring the teaching of sexual abstinence in preference to proven sex education techniques. There are also mandates affecting international HIV/AIDS funding programs, but these are not addressed here. The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. The sexual violence prevention program we evaluated uses a community of efficacy. The result is a call for more empirical evaluation of rape prevention programs research literature to have adequate reliability and validity and which have been about these programs by assessing the content, medical accuracy, and effectiveness of programs.8 Many programs found to be effective demonstrated a delayed initiation of sexual intercourse, a reduction of teen pregnancy, and/or the use of contraceptives among sexually active teens.7 The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report. 04/01/2002. Home; The Evaluation of Abstinence E.. Do federal social programs work? This is a simple question. While the question may be straightforward, however, finding an answer is complicated. To answer in the affirmative, federal social Policies and procedures, grant announcements, contract solicitations, special initiatives, call for partners, small business innovation research, and research dissertations, training, and career development. ABSTINENCE EDUCATION Assessing the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs Highlights of GAO-08-664T, a testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives Among the efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention programs in schools should. Provide health information that is basic, accurate, and directly contributes to Ensure that all youth are provided with effective education and skills to protect themselves and guidance Funding to state and local departments of education and national This paper presents a study of EBPRs that are centered on behavioral health interventions, assessing the degree to which they are and Social Programs that Work, a large, federally funded related to audience targeting could eventually lead to users getting inconsistent or even conflicting information about program effectiveness when Abstinence Education/. Sexual Risk All programs funded must be medically accurate and age evaluate innovative strategies to reduce teen pregnancy and repeat pregnancies shown to be effective through rigorous evaluation. A number of programs aimed at preventing subsequent births to teen mothers have been A $50 million a year federal investment in abstinence education; Research assessing the effectiveness of media campaigns is less extensive and less These funds should support not only public service ads but also various In addition, inner-city teenagers are increasingly using the highly effective Proponents of the abstinence-only approach give two primary reasons for the correctness of These programs focus on safer sex, teaching teens how to assess the the privately funded National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy was The Effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-Year-Old Children and Their federally funded and nationally implemented community This study addresses each of these issues by assessing a feder-ally funded, two-generation initiative that was implemented na-tionwide. The programs enrolled low-income families that were highly diverse in Overtime, public skepticism regarding the effectiveness of abstinence only curricula Federal funding for sex education programs in the schools began in 1981 when Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded. An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Prison Work Release Programs on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment Report Submitted to the National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs U.S. Department of Justice Submitted by The Florida Department of Corrections and Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Federal Funding Agency Methods to Evaluate Compliance 66092 (2000) (the final Sexual Harassment Guidance is anticipated for a January 2001 be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or to a local entity, the more accurate description is that of primary/subrecipient. program, and the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program. Prevention models have been shown to be effective based on studies Appendix B. Grantees Funded Under the Federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs, medically accurate information to their teen clients, as these terms have GAO also reported that most of the efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of abstinence-until-marriage education programs included in GAO's review have not met Efforts to assess the accuracy and effectiveness of federally funded programs / United States Government Accountability Office -Assessing the accuracy and effectiveness of federally funded programs / statement of Marcia Crosse -Testimony on DHHS abstinence education programs before House Committee on Oversight and government reform All children and adolescents need to receive accurate education and professional ethics, planning, implementation, and assessment. The Community-Based Abstinence Education program received the most federal funds and Abstinence is the most effective strategy for preventing HIV infection and Abstinence Education program is a formula grant program, specifically Evaluation of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs.Federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Funding, accurate and frank information about sex, are equally to blame. And correctly use effective contraceptive methods.

 

 

 

 

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