Expanding Evidence-Based Sexual Health Programs in the U.S.: New Findings on a Parent-Teen Program for Rural Families

In the US, there is no national policy or government issued set of guidelines governing sex education. Rather, since 1991, the US federal government has created funding streams for competing approaches to sex education. Abstinence-only-until-marriage education received funding beginning in 1981 as p...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent health 2021-09, Vol.69 (3), p.359-360
Main Author: Kantor, Leslie M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstinence
Children & youth
Educational programs
Evidence-based interventions
Evidence-based medicine
Families & family life
Funding
Health education
Marriage
National guidelines
Prevention programs
Rural areas
Rural youth
Sex education
Sexual health
Sexuality
Teen pregnancy prevention programs
Teenage pregnancy
Welfare reform
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Summary:In the US, there is no national policy or government issued set of guidelines governing sex education. Rather, since 1991, the US federal government has created funding streams for competing approaches to sex education. Abstinence-only-until-marriage education received funding beginning in 1981 as part of the Adolescent Family Life Act and abstinence-only-until-marriage funding was expanded significantly in 1996 as part of national welfare reform. Further increases in funding took place in the early 2000s as part of the Community-Based Abstinence Education program. In 2009, Congress shifted the funding priorities to evidence-based approaches and created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP Program). The TPP Program funded a number of program replications with rigorous evaluation as well as development and research on new programs. The Linking Families and Teens (LiFT) program is one program developed and evaluated as a result of the TPP Program.
ISSN:1054-139X
1879-1972
DOI:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.019