Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and Tribal Personal Responsibility Education Program (Tribal PREP) grants have been forecasted.
PREP grants support projects that focus on reducing teen pregnancy, HIV, and STI rates among youth aged 10 – 19 (and pregnant/parenting youth under 21) by educating them on both abstinence and contraception. Funding guidelines mandate that, at a minimum, 3 of 6 Adult Preparation Subjects (APS) be covered.
Love Notes 4.1 and Relationships Smarts Plus 5.1 are innovative, effective, and engaging evidence-based programs that align with current federal guidance!
Our programs:
- Covers five of the six APS modules
- Supports brand new and updated content important to today’s youth.
- Includes supplemental content that allows facilitators to be culturally adaptive.
For more details on Love Notes 4.1 or Relationships Smarts Plus 5.1, please explore the information included in this toolkit!If you need further information, please reach out to Jonelle Zachary, Outreach Coordinator.
Key Outcomes:
Key Outcomes:
Link to grant forecast: Grant Forecast: Tribal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)!
Tribal PREP grants support projects that educate American Indian/Alaska Native youth ages 10-19, and expectant and parenting youth under age 21, on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy while also promoting the successful transition of youth to adulthood through education on key adulthood preparation topics within the cultural context that is most appropriate for those youth.
Consulting with elders and your community on curriculum decisions and your implementation plans are a high priority. Please consider reviewing cases studies on how other tribal communities have successfully used and adapted Dibble programs to fit their culture.
Check out our Case Studies below!
Goal: Violence Prevention
Funding: Office of Violence against Women
Setting: School, Camp
Curriculum: Love Notes
Goal: Increase knowledge of healthy relationships
Funding: Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (OFA)
Setting: Reservation high school and YFS center
Curriculum: Relationship Smarts Plus
If you’d like to learn more about this funding, please fill out the form below!
Love Notes was designed with two trauma-informed goals in mind:
- To directly empower youth: Help teens and young adults who have experienced childhood adversity to make meaning of their pasts by looking at the patterns they experienced to better understand how these earlier events have influenced their lives and choices. Most importantly, to support youth in defining what they want in their relationships, their present or future family, and for their life goals. Yet defining isn’t enough. It is essential to equip young people with the knowledge and skills to build self-efficacy and confidence to move towards their goals.
- To prevent of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the children these youth have or may have in the future: An important hook throughout the curriculum is how Intimate Partner Violence, unstable and turbulent relationships, and unplanned pregnancies affect children. These concepts are conveyed through upbeat and empowering activities. Vulnerable youth immediately understand the connection between family structure and outcomes for children and they long to protect to their current or eventual children. We build upon that protective, empathetic instinct. We tap their aspirations and give them a huge trove of knowledge and skills to help them move towards their aspirations.
Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience will address the trauma needs of the youth you serve.
- Mind Matters’ teaches young people proven ways to deal with stressful life experiences using innovative methods based on current research and neuroscience.
- Students experiencing ongoing stress or prior trauma often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school and work, life and relationships. As youth learn the skills and strategies in Mind Matters, they can begin to take charge of themselves and their responses to what life throws at them. Teens learn to address their physical, relational, and mental health needs.
- Mind Matters may be taught by non-clinicians in group or individual settings with teens (12 and up) to build skills that help them cope with life’s stressors. The program can be successfully implemented in health classes, home visiting settings, career and technical ed programs, parenting classes, residential group homes, corrections, staff development seminars, and more.
The Dibble Institute has developed trauma-informed teaching tips for program managers and educators. Download the tips here.
Love Notes is being successfully implemented successfully with Competitive PREP and Pregnancy Prevention Funding.
Check out our real life Case Studies here.
Populations
- Youth living in under-resourced regions and areas with high rates of teen births and STIs
- Youth who are underrepresented
- Youth in, or aging out, of foster care or adjudication systems
- Youth who are victims of trafficking
- Risk-immersed youth
- Expecting and parenting teens (both fathers and mothers)
- Youth in correctional settings
- Tribal youth
- Runaway and homeless youth
- Community college students
- Foster youth (both within the system and aging out)
- Youth who have been abuse
Settings
- System engaged youth
- Group homes (Foster)
- Residential settings (Mental health)
- Detention centers
- Challenge academies
- Schools
- Alternative schools
- Faith-based settings
- Community agencies
Love Notes Evidence Based Program Model is the ONLY program on the federal OAH list with five positive outcomes and no negative outcomes.
Love Notes fidelity tools for great results!
The following fidelity aids and checklists are included when you purchase the Love Notes 4.1 Manual:
- Annotated slide deck to focus the instructor on key content.
- Fidelity monitoring tools for facilitators, observers, and evaluators.
- Love Notes knowledge test.
The Dibble Institute offers high-quality, ongoing training and professional development for all your project staff and facilitators to ensure successful implementation and evaluation of our curricula. We are also available to provide follow-up technical assistance to facilitators, as needed. To assure the success of your PREP implementation, we recommend the following training protocol
1) For clients new to Love Notes or Relationship Smarts PLUS
Five day 3.5-hour per day online training or 3 full day in-person training for all instructional and project staff. Group discounts are available.
Please call Carlie Kaeppler at 800-695-7975 ext. 703 or Carlie@Dibbbleinstitute.org to obtain a training quote.
2) Clients who have attended a Dibble-certified training in a previous edition of Love Notes 3.0 or Relationship Smarts PLUS 4.0
One day virtual or in-person training to review new, updated, and/ore content unique to Love Notes 4.1 CSE and Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.1 CSE.
Please call Dr. Rachel Savasuk-Luxton at 800-695-7975 ext. 705 or email Rachel@Dibbleinstitute.org to obtain a training quote.
3) Clients who have attended a Dibble-certified training in Love Notes 4.0 or 4.1 OR Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 or 5.1
Please call Dr. Rachel Savasuk-Luxton at 800-695-7975 ext. 705 or email Rachel@Dibbleinstitute.org to begin a needs assessment process and development of your personalized training plan.
**Please note: If you have trainees with varied experience attending a training, your training plan will be based on those individuals who have the least experience with Love Notes/Relationship Smarts PLUS.
4) Clients with TOT-Certified Love Notes Trainers on staff
If someone on your staff is currently a Dibble Certified Trainer, please contact Dr. Rachel Savasuk-Luxton, Director of Research and Training, at Rachel@Dibbleinstitute.org to learn the requirements for continuing their certification for this new funding.
The Dibble Institute includes two hours of complimentary technical assistance (TA) with every training. Additional TA at $95 an hour may be scheduled based on your needs.
We can help you craft a clear and realistic recruitment, retention, training, and TA plan to build capacity on topics pertinent to implementation of your PREP project and priorities listed in this NOFO for facilitator throughout the grant.
Based on your needs, TA topics could include:
- Developing a post-training plan for successful facilitation
- Handling sensitive topics
- Trauma informed training techniques
- Improving facilitation skills
- Creating effective recruitment and retention plans
- Successful implementation models in schools and community organizations
- Identifying participant referral resources
Teaching Supply List for Love Notes EBP
These items are necessary when teaching the curriculum. Many of the supplies can be reused. Craft items may be found at JoAnne’s, Michael’s, or other craft store.
Assumptions: 15 participants divided into 3 groups of 5. Scale the supplies accordingly with larger or smaller groups.
We ask applicants to complete this Materials, Technical Assistance, and Training Budget because we want to make sure that you have everything you need in your budget to assure success.
Please return to Aaron Larson, grant coordinator, (Aaron @ DibbleInstitute.org). He will contact you to complete your MOU with The Dibble Institute.
The Dibble Institute is pleased to sign an MOU with you as part of your application.
To help us understand your plans, please send an email Aaron @ DibbleInstitute.org with the following information:
- Numbers of students you plan to serve each year of the grant.
- Your signed Training and Materials Budget
