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Guastaferro, Kate; Font, Sarah A.; Miyamoto, Sheridan; Zadzora, Kathleen M.; Walters, Katie E.; O'Hara, Kathryn; Kemner, Allison; Noll, Jennie G. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: As constant figures in children's lives, parents are key in protecting children from sexual abuse. One barrier to reaching parents is that the topic can be difficult to broach and is sensitive in nature. Such barriers can interfere with implementation and fidelity of evidence-based prevention strategies that are focused on reducing…
Descriptors: Barriers, Sexual Abuse, Self Efficacy, Prevention
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Heather D. Tevendale; Lucas Godoy Garraza; Megan A. M. Brooks; Emilia H. Koumans; L. Duane House; Hope M. Sommerfeldt; Anna Brittain; Trisha Mueller; Taleria R. Fuller; Lisa Romero; Amy Fasula; Lee Warner – Prevention Science, 2024
The impact of community-wide teen pregnancy prevention initiatives (CWIs) on local U.S. birth rates among adolescents aged 15 to 19 years was examined using synthetic control methodology within a quasi-experimental design. CWIs were implemented in 10 U.S. communities from 2010 to 2015. Each initiative implemented evidence-based teen pregnancy…
Descriptors: Prevention, Adolescents, Pregnancy, Community Health Services
SNAP, 2024
This Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Nutrition Education (SNAP-Ed) Plan Guidance" provides instructions for developing and submitting State nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program plans, commonly referred to as State SNAP-Ed Plans. It describes Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Welfare Services, Nutrition, Nutrition Instruction
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Donaldson, Linda Plitt; Streeter, Calvin L.; Larkin, Heather; Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Meyer-Adams, Nancy; Lupfer, Kristin; Elder, Jen; Grimshaw, Angela – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
University social work programs can play a critical role in helping communities to expand local capacity in efforts to end homelessness. The Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI) Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR) program is an evidence-based model that social work programs are advancing through…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education, Homeless People
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Honeycutt, Sally; Hermstad, April; Carvalho, Michelle L.; Arriola, Kimberly R. Jacob; Ballard, Denise; Escoffery, Cam; Kegler, Michelle C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Evidence from formal evaluation of real-world practice can address gaps in the public health knowledge base and provide information about feasible, relevant strategies for varied settings. Interest in evaluability assessment (EA) as an approach for generating practice-based evidence has grown. EA has been central to several structured assessment…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Prevention
Thompson, Elizabeth; Kaufman, Joan – Abell Foundation, 2019
Traditionally defined, Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, include experiences of child maltreatment and other family problems such as domestic violence and parental incarceration. These ACEs are common, frequently co-occur, and are associated with a whole host of negative social outcomes, health risk behaviors, psychiatric and substance use…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Educational Policy, Children