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Findings Available
Interim Implementation Findings
Findings
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04/01/02:
Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report
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Interim Implementation Findings:- Section 510 abstinence funds are changing the local landscape of approaches to teenage pregnancy prevention and youth risk avoidance. All states applied for funding at some point and are using the monies in innovative ways to promote abstinence as the healthiest choice for youth.
- Most abstinence education programs offer more than a single message of abstinence. Examples of the curricula and program components from sites show the often diverse, creative and complex nature of the initiatives.
- Most participants report favorable feelings about their program experience. Participants respond especially to staff who show strong and unambiguous commitment to the abstinence message.
- Abstinence education programs face real challenges addressing peer pressure and the communication gulf between parents and children.
- Local schools are valuable program partners, but establishing these partnerships is sometimes difficult.
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06/17/05:
Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: First-Year Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education
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Interim Impact Findings:
- Each of the four programs show evidence of having increased the level of health, family life, and sex education services youth received during their first year of program participation relative to that received by the control group.
- There is evidence that the programs affected in intended ways youth's views on abstinence and teen sex and their perceptions of potential negative consequences of teen and nonmarital sex.
- There is limited evidence of program impacts on both dating and expectations to abstain.
- Program and control group youth reported similarly on the remaining measures examined including their views on marriage, self-concept, refusal skills, communication with parents, perceptions of peer pressure to have sex, and the extent to which their friends hold supportive views of abstinence.
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