Evaluation of WAIT Training

Description:

Partners from USF and A Woman’s Place (AWP) will use their combined resources to evaluate WAIT (Why Am I Tempted) Training, a component of IMPACT, a federal and state funded community-based program that reaches over 6,000 youth annually. The WAIT curriculum delivers key health and youth development messages through abstinence only education classes. The evaluation will 1) examine the efficacy of WAIT Training to reduce the number of adolescents who engage in premarital sexual activity; 2) describe characteristics, social capital and assets that influence how teens receive and use WAIT Training messages and 3) assist AWP in strengthening the curriculum and evaluation design in order to seek additional and competitive funding for longitudinal follow-up and evaluation of the program. The evaluation will involve 3,000 teens in Hillsborough County. A pre-post study design will be used and a small subset of volunteer teens will participate in a follow-up survey six months after training.

Contact Person: Darlene L. Shearer

Funding for Academic Year: 2006-07

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	Evaluation of WAIT Training Description: Partners from USF and A Woman’s Place (AWP) will use their combined resources to evaluate WAIT (Why Am I Tempted) Training, a component of IMPACT, a federal and state funded community-based program that reaches over 6,000 youth annually. The WAIT curriculum delivers key health and youth development messages through abstinence only education classes. The evaluation will 1) examine the efficacy of WAIT Training to reduce the number of adolescents who engage in premarital sexual activity; 2) describe characteristics, social capital and assets that influence how teens receive and use WAIT Training messages and 3) assist AWP in strengthening the curriculum and evaluation design in order to seek additional and competitive funding for longitudinal follow-up and evaluation of the program. The evaluation will involve 3,000 teens in Hillsborough County. A pre-post study design will be used and a small subset of volunteer teens will participate in a follow-up survey six months after training. Contact Person: Darlene L. Shearer Funding for Academic Year: 2006-07


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