Specifications include, but are not limited to: WI DHS is requesting applications for implementation of educational programs for high school-aged adolescents. The Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) is designed to provide comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents which includes both abstinence and information about contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. The program serves youth who are homeless, in foster care, live in rural areas or in geographic areas with high teen birth rates, or come from racial or ethnic minority groups. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth. Using a Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework, PREP provides comprehensive, medically accurate information and replicates effective, evidence-based and evidence-informed program models that have demonstrated effectiveness in delaying sexual activity, increasing condom or contraceptive use for sexually active youth, or reducing pregnancy among youth.
