The intent of the funds is to provide sexual risk avoidance educational programs in school or community-based settings that address the issues of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among youth. Programs supported with these funds shall be medically accurate, culturally relevant, implemented with fidelity and shall employ evidence-based strategies that have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the onset of teenage sexual activity and sexually transmitted infections. Only evidence-based Sexual Risk Avoidance curricula listed in the TPP Policy and Procedures Manual (Exhibit 1) are approved for use under this Grant. In addition to the approved curricula, applicants are required to integrate at least three (3) Transitional Topics for Youth Success (Exhibit 2). Programming shall be implemented with a Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach. 7.2 Programs funded under this Grant shall provide services that are consistent with the Federal Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education A-F components (Exhibit 3). Education on sexual risk avoidance shall ensure that the primary message to youth for each topic described in the A-F components is one that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity. 7.3 The provision of Transitional Topics for Youth Success (TTYS) to provide more education on certain life skills in order to help Arizona youth become successful adults. The programs must deliver at least three (3) Transitional Topics for Youth Success. Applicant can elect to deliver all Transitional Topics for Youth Success: 7.3.1 Healthy Relationships: Relationships are interactions between people that are ongoing, voluntary, and mutually acknowledged. Healthy relationships are those relationships that are based on trust, honesty, and respect. Helping youth distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationship patterns early on can have implications for young people's lifelong physical and emotional health and well-being and can also provide important skills to help form healthy marriages and safe and stable families. 7.3.2 Healthy Life Skills: Defined as abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Specific skills and everyday demands may vary throughout the course of adolescence and across different socio-cultural groups. Life skills include, but are not limited to, communication, decisionmaking, coping, self-management, goal-setting, and avoidance of unhealthy behaviors. 7.3.3 Financial Literacy: Efforts to improve financial literacy, and generally includes programs that seek to improve knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to personal finance. While experts do not agree on a uniform definition of the term financial literacy, in general, the term implies a level of basic knowledge or competence about financial concepts such as the ability to balance a checkbook, manage a credit card, prepare a budget, take out a loan, and buy insurance. 7.3.4 Educational and Career Success: focus on developing such skills as employment preparation, job seeking, independent living, financial self-sufficiency, and work-place productivity. These programs generally seek to improve academic performance, increase school attendance, increase school engagement and/or increase school completion. 7.3.5 Adolescent Development: extends beyond the physiological changes that occur in adolescence to also encompass cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual change and growth. Adolescent development, the transition to adulthood, can occur between ages eight to twentyfour (8 – 24). 7.3.5.1 TTYS lessons must be delivered either before starting any curriculum delivery or after all curriculum delivery has been given. 7.3.5.2 Some program models may already incorporate/integrate some of the Transitional Topics for Youth Success (TTYS). Only Transitional Topics for Youth Success that are not covered within an approved evidence-based curriculum, but selected to be delivered by the Grantee, needs to have separate lessons developed and/or provided and approved by ADHS.
