Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar: Frontiers in Adolescent Reproductive Health

Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention & Colorado Association for School-Based Health Care

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Pre-conference Institutes
Two all-day trainings:

Assessing Diverse Youth Populations Mary Martha Wilson, Healthy Teen Network and Steven Bean, ETR Associates

The overall goal of this one-day training is to strengthen the capacity of participants to assess the youth populations they serve, including cultural values and norms, in order to select and improve effective pregnancy and HIV prevention programs.

   Learning Objectives:
     1. Describe the benefits of a needs and resources assessment;
     2. Explain how to establish a needs and resources assessment work group;
     3. Develop a data collection plan including how to:
          a. Identify assessment questions
          b. Access existing data
          c. Find new data
          d. Assess community resources
     4. Analyze the data collected;
     5. Identify important sexual risk-taking behaviors and determinants that influence those
          behaviors among youth populations;
     6. Select priority population
     7. Complete the first three columns of your BDI Logic Model (health goal, behaviors and
          determinants)
     8. Identify where to locate information about science-based programs that you want to
          explore for your priority population

Effectively Promoting and Responding to Challenges to Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Barbara Huberman, RN, MEd and Tom Klaus, MS, Advocates for Youth

This training will prepare providers to effectively promote and respond to critics of proven effective teen pregnancy prevention programs. Specifically, participants will learn how to read, understand, and interpret research articles about teen pregnancy prevention programs. This deepened understanding will empower participants to effectively articulate to partners and stakeholders some programs are effective and others are not. Further it will equip participants to effectively defend the implementation of science-based programs over those that are not proven effective. Even more, this training will involve participants in a live learning simulation focusing on how to manage controversy.

    Learning Objectives:
     1. Learn 12 questions that need to be answered about any program evaluation to
        determine the quality of a program and its likely impact
     2. Get experience in evaluating actual program evaluations in a small group learning
         activity
     3. Learn how to access additional resources for assessing the quality and effectiveness of
         teen pregnancy prevention programs specifically and prevention programs generally
     4. Learn three critical strategies for managing controversy that can arise over
          implementing proven effective teen pregnancy prevention programs

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