| Overview of Title V Grant Project . . . . |
| * AEN provides Training Opportunities for: 5 annual Statewide Professional Seminars; Parenting Workshops in each city; Peer Mentoring Seminars in each city; and an annual Statewide Training the Trainer Seminar for Parenting and Peer Mentoring. |
| * Teen Rallies with nationally known Guest speakers |
| * Student/Adult Mentoring |
| * Regional Libraries, as well as a Website Lending Library |
| * Promotional and Abstinence Education Media |
| * Teacher In-services |
| * Integrity Awards to students in "lead" schools in each city |
Some interesting and important comments from the Grant Evaluators:
| From Grant year 1998-99. . . |
| "Parents and community seem to be excited about the underlying philosophy of Abstinence education and are willing to support AEN and their work with teens, educators, and other professionals." |
| From Grant year 1999-2000. . . . |
| "Findings of the second year replicated the results of the first year. Furthermore, they showed a larger movement toward abstinence because of a multi-faceted program. Intervention programs such as speaker Lakita Garth, does indeed make a statistically significant difference toward increasing the commitment to teen premarital sexual abstinence." |
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On Specific Initiatives: |
| *Speakers: "We did learn that speakers 'specific to the topic of abstinence' impacted the students attitudes and behaviors with a greater degree of effectiveness over those who were 'motivational' in topic. There was a lack of statistical or significant impact in the Harvey Alston presentations." |
| *Professional Seminars and Training the Trainer: "All participants evaluated all aspects of the seminars at a point of 'good to excellent'. Content presented received a mean score of 4.90 (out of 5) for relevancy according to social workers, nurses, teachers, and other professionals." |
| *Peer Mentoring: "These results are impressive. The Peer Counseling Program was successful in meeting its objectives to participants. This finding is further supported by the fact that the overwhelming majority (99%) of the participants were 'now ready to use the content of the seminar with friends as well as their own lives.' " |
| *Parenting Workshop: "Parents could say with a high degree they were better prepared to assist their children in ways to say 'no' to sexual pressures; better prepared to educate their children; and realized the failures and limitations of using birth control." |
| *Adult/Student Mentoring Program: "Mentors' responses were unanimous in that the program had a significant impact on the student's lives (in positive changes in behavior and attitude). The only negative comments reported were: allowing more students to participate, and have a year round program." |
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Request: To redistribute funding to accommodate Abstinence groups to balance with the funding Family Planning and AIDS Prevention groups receive. |