Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

Information about programs funded by PREP.

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About PREP

Funded PREP programs are utilizing a variety of evidence-based and evidence-informed sexual health education curricula, including the Teen Outreach Program®, Making Proud Choices!, Focus On Youth, The 3R’s Curriculum: Rights, Respect, Responsibility and Get Real. Curricula include comprehensive sexual health education, communication and negotiation skill development, values exploration, puberty, and more.

All PREP programs integrate 3 additional adulthood preparation subjects:

  1. Healthy Relationships
  2. Adolescent Development
  3. Financial Literacy

These are included as lessons bookended before or after the curriculum, or through use of guest speakers from local banks, partnerships with other local community organizations, and youth community service projects.

The health outcome goals of the program are:

  • Decrease the teen birth rate among target populations in priority communities through increased access to evidence-based education.
  • Decrease STI incidence among target populations in priority communities through increased access to medically-accurate, and age-appropriate programming.

The Personal Responsibility Education Program is federally funded through the Family and Youth Services Bureau of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

PREP Communities

Communities eligible for PREP funding are chosen through data analysis of teen birth rates. Currently, the following community-based organizations, school districts, and collaboratives receive PREP dollars to serve the following:

Community Served by
Andover

Collaborative for Regional Education Services and Training (CREST) Collaborative

Chelsea LifeScene, formerly Family and Children’s Services of Greater Lynn
Chicopee Gándara Center
Fall River

Citizens for Citizens

Haverhill Haverhill Public Schools
Holyoke Gándara Center
Lawrence
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley
  • Community Day Charter Public School
Lowell Lowell Community Health Center
Lynn

LifeScene, formerly Family and Children’s Services of Greater Lynn

Pittsfield Pittsfield Public Schools
Revere LifeScene, formerly Family and Children’s Services of Greater Lynn
Salem Salem Academy Charter School
Springfield 
  • Gándara Center
  • Veritas Preparatory Charter School   
Stockbridge Berkshire Hills School District

Youth served by PREP

The PREP program funds community-based organizations to serve middle and high school aged youth, and through a partnership with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, school districts are funded to serve middle and high school youth. Eligible communities are those ranked among the highest teen birth rates in Massachusetts. To reduce inequities in teen reproductive health outcomes, the program prioritizes serving youth who identify as Hispanic, Black, LGBTQ, in or aging out of foster care, having physical or intellectual disabilities, and expectant or parenting youth.

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