The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Adolescent Health Program will be announcing five separate funding opportunities this spring/summer for the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (SRAE), and Rape Prevention and Education (RPE).
PREP:
The first opportunity provides funds to partners to implement the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). The PREP grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, funds agencies to educate young people with the goal of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. PREP prepares teens for adulthood by offering programs with proven positive outcomes in counties with high teen birth rates. Up to five grants will be awarded for a three-year grant period. The anticipated project start date is October 1, 2021.
The second opportunity from PREP will be for a training and technical assistance partner. This partner will provide support to sub-awardees and other state partners of PREP who are implementing evidence-based programs in local communities with high-quality training. The anticipated project start date is October 1, 2021.
The third opportunity from PREP will be for a fidelity monitor partner. This partner will provide support to sub-awardees to ensure full fidelity and best practices are replicated per the instruction of a variety of evidence-based and evidence-informed curricula. The anticipated project start date is October 1, 2021.
The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (SRAE) has a funding opportunity available for a fidelity monitor partner. This partner will provide support to sub-awardees to ensure full fidelity and best practices are replicated per the instruction of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP), an evidence-based social-emotional learning curriculum. SRAE is also funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The anticipated project start date is October 1, 2021.
RPE:
The Rape Prevention and Education Grant (RPE) has a funding opportunity available for a training partner. The Sexual Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) is funded by the Rape Prevention and Education grant. This grant funds primary prevention strategies to prevent sexual violence. These funds support community-level strategies that align with approaches in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) STOP SV Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence. The training partner will provide support to local programs on community-level strategies to prevent sexual violence. The anticipated project start date is February 1, 2022.