Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life)

READY4Life grants will be targeted exclusively to projects designed to provide healthy marriage and relationship education skills, parenting (for young fathers and mothers as applicable), financial management, job and career advancement, and other activities, to youth that are high-school aged (grades 9-12) or in late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 14 to 24), including parenting and/or pregnant youth. 

Grant Opportunity Detail
Estimated Application Due Date: June 24, 2025

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Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive - Adults (HEART)

This funding will be targeted exclusively to projects designed for adult individuals or adult couples, defined as persons who are age 18 and older. Applicants will be asked to submit proposals including curriculum-based skills development and services designed to support family strengthening activities through one or more of seven activities specified under the authorizing legislation: marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES); pre-marital education; marriage enhancement; divorce reduction activities; marriage mentoring; public advertising campaigns; and activities to reduce the disincentives to marriage).

Grant Opportunity Detail
Estimated Application Due Date: June 24, 2025

UPCOMING GRANT WEBINAR

Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (SRAE)

The purpose of the GDSRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The services are targeted to participants that reside in areas with high rates of teen births and/or are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goals of GDSRAE are to empower participants to make healthy decisions, and provide tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, STIs, and youth engagement in other risky behaviors. 

Application Due:   06/24/2024

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Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (SRAE)

The purpose of the SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teach participants how to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. The services are targeted to participants that reside in areas with high rates of teen births and/or are at greatest risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goals of SRAE are to empower participants to make healthy decisions, and provide tools and resources to prevent pregnancy, STIs, and youth engagement in other risky behaviors. 

Application Due:   07/18/2023

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Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education

The purpose of the Title V Competitive SRAE Program is to fund projects to implement education exclusively on sexual risk avoidance that teaches youth participants to voluntarily refrain from non-marital sexual activity. Eligible applicants are expected to submit plans for the implementation of sexual risk avoidance education that normalizes the optimal health behavior of avoiding non-marital sexual activity.

Application Due: 07/18/2023

Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)

The purpose of this program is to support projects that educate youth between 10 and 19 years of age and pregnant and parenting youth under age 21 on abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). 

Application Due:   07/15/2021

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Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies (PREIS)

The purpose of the PREIS program is to build the evidence base for adolescent pregnancy prevention interventions that are effective with high risk and vulnerable youth populations and fill gaps with new promising program models. 

Application Due:   07/26/2021

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Tribal Personal Responsibility Education Program for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

The purpose of this program is to support projects that educate American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth between the ages of 10 and 19, and pregnant and parenting youth under age 21, on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). 

Application Due:   07/26/2021

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Tier 1

The goal of this opportunity is to have a significant impact on improving the optimal health of adolescents and reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through saturation of communities with the greatest needs and disparities using a systems thinking approach to replicate effective programs with fidelity.

Application Due: 04/27/2020

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