About Us: A Healthy Relationships Program

Funder

Administration for Children and Families, Family & Youth Services Bureau

PI(s)

Karin Coyle and Pamela Anderson

Description

ETR was awarded a Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies Program grant from the Family & Youth Services Bureau to refine and evaluate a relationships-based program called About Us. About Us is an innovative intervention that draws on developmental neuroscience principles to support young people in exploring and developing healthy romantic relationships and using condoms and highly effective contraceptives if having sex. ETR has partnered with the California School-Based Health Alliance to implement About Us in school-based health centers located in rural or suburban counties in California.. The evaluation is being conducted by Dr. Eric Walsh-Buhi and his team from the Department of Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University - Bloomington. This study fills several significant gaps in the field with its unique content focus, brain-based pedagogical strategies, and delivery in school-based health centers. If effective, About Us would be among the first targeted evidence-based healthy relationships sexual health interventions available for adolescents in school-based health centers.

Please direct all inquiries to Pamela Anderson.