Assistance program
Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (Discretionary Grants)
$76.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 93.787
- What it does
- The purpose of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement education exclusively on sexual risk avoidance that teaches youth participants to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. Title V Competitive SRAE is a prevention education program targeted to youth ages 10 to 19. Eligible applicants are expected to submit plans for the implementation of sexual risk avoidance education that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity. The program is designed to teach youth the holistic and individual, societal benefits associated with personal responsibility; self-regulation; goal setting; healthy decision-making; a focus on future goals; and how other youth risk behaviors, such as drug and alcohol usage, increase the risk for teen sex. Services must be medically accurate and address Topics A-F as described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity.
- Who benefits
- The beneficiaries include youth ages 10-19 years. Title V Competitive SRAE Program may target services to vulnerable youth populations to include, but not limited to, the following: youth living in under-resourced regions and areas with high rates of teen births and STIs; culturally underrepresented youth populations, especially Hispanic, African American, or Native American teenagers; youth in or aging out of foster care or adjudication systems; youth who are victims of trafficking; youth who have runaway or left home without permission; youth experiencing homelessness; youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual, and/or two spirit (LGBTQIA2S+), and other vulnerable or underserved youth populations. The needs of LGBTQIA2S+ youth are taken into consideration in recipient’s program design.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants for FY2024 awards are limited to local organizations and entities or consortia with the capacity to develop and implement Title V Competitive SRAE projects in states and territories that did not accept Title V State SRAE funding. Applicants located in and/or proposing to manage a project from an ineligible state cannot propose a project that serves an eligible state. Funds are not available for FY2024 new awards in Delaware, Kansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as a portion of FY2024 allocations will be used to fund the second year of the two-year project of competitive grants awarded in FY2023. Eligible applicants for FY2024 new awards are organizations and entities, including faith-based organizations or consortia, in the following states and territories: Alaska, California, Connecticut, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and New Mexico.
- Authorized by
- The Title V SRAE Program is authorized and funded by section 510 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 710), as amended by Section 50502 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law No. 115-123) and extended by Division CC, Title III, Section 303 of the Consolidated Appropria…
- Program site
- http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb ↗
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