Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Education

ADPH works to promote healthy adolescent choices by:

• Providing resources and presentations to parents, community groups and educators to promote positive youth development (the basic things that adolescents need to make positive health decisions).
• Collaborating with community action groups to analyze data trends regarding adolescent risk behaviors.
• Providing resources through grants to reduce the adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates.
• Providing information about successful adolescent health initiatives.
• Reaching youth, parents, and community leaders through outreach events to provide information on parent-child communication, risk behaviors, and community resources.
• Administering the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Grant in Alabama.
• Administering the State Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) in Alabama.

Alabama Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (ASRAE)

• Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Grant Program.
• Effective, evidence-based, and evidence-informed education programs to at-risk youth aged 10-19 to promote abstinence from non-marital sexual activity.
• The selected materials will help youth explore the changes that occur during adolescence; promote resistance to all youth risk behaviors, including sexual risk taking; develop interpersonal relationship skills that also encourage family resilience and parent-child communication; understand the foundational components of healthy relationships; and promote the development of protective factors by empowering adolescents to respond to developmental challenges in practical and effective ways.
• The focal group is youth aged 12-19 in under-resourced regions, areas with a high rate of teen births and sexually transmitted infections, youth aging out of foster care or adjudication systems, and other vulnerable youth populations.
• Programming will be provided as requested in community-based settings to include health departments, faith-based organizations, and state agencies.
• Parental notification of programming to be implemented and parental permission as required.
• Program materials are compliant with federal, state, and grant requirements.
• Programming is currently provided through a combination of trained Public Health Educators and Public Health Social Workers based in the Central Office and in two or more public health districts.

Alabama Personal Responsibility Education Program (APREP)

• State Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
• Programming will be provided as requested in community-based settings to include health departments, faith-based organizations, and state agencies.
• Parental notification of programming to be implemented and parental permission as required.
• Program materials are compliant with federal, state, and grant requirements.
• Programming is currently provided through a combination of trained Public Health Educators and Public Health Social Workers based in the Central Office and in two or more public health districts.

ASRAE and APREP Target Counties

Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Cullman, Dale, Dallas, DeKalb, Escambia, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Geneva, Greene, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lamar, Lawrence, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Marion, Marshall, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Randolph, Russell, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Washington, Wilcox, and Winston

Counties were selected based on the following criteria:

• Teen birth rate higher than the state.
• Over 50 percent of births being to unmarried mothers.
• Household percent of population 25 or older without a high school diploma.
• Percent of pregnancies receiving inadequate prenatal care.

Additionally, programming may be provided to youth who are in foster care, including group homes or summer camps; youth in juvenile detention programs; and homeless and runaway youth in any county in Alabama.

ASRAE and APREP are not currently accepting applications for sub-recipients. If you would like to be notified when an application becomes available, please use our Contact Us page.

Other Funding Opportunities

• Family and Youth Services grants
• Office of Population Affairs Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants

This website is supported by Grant Numbers 2601ALSRAE, 2501ALSRAE, 2601ALPREP, 2501ALPREP, and 2401ALPREP from the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.