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            -  Evidence and Innovation 
            -  Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review 
            -  Programs 
            -           Power Through Choices      

# Power Through Choices

- Program Information
- Program Overview
- Program Description
- Program Component Table
- Program Implementation

- Research Evidence
- Reviewed Studies
- Study Characteristics
- Study Findings

The program was developed for use with youth in various out-of-home care settings, such as family foster homes, kinship foster care, residential group homes, transitional living centers, and juvenile justice facilities. The program was evaluated with youth living in residential group homes across Oklahoma, California, and Maryland.

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                        - Make healthy, positive choices related to sexual behavior.
                        - Build condom and contraceptive knowledge and skills.
                        - Develop and practice effective communication skills.
                        - Learn how to access available resources.

                        - Introduction to PTC:  Introduce curriculum, assess participants’ knowledge regarding pregnancy prevention and sex education, and demonstrate role playing.
                        - Making Choices Clear:  Help participants to build assertiveness and communication skills related to sexual activity.
                        - Adolescent Reproductive Health Basics:  Increase knowledge of male and female reproductive anatomy, the process of fertilization and conception, and the menstrual cycle.
                        - Increasing Contraceptive Knowledge:  Increase knowledge about contraceptive methods.
                        - Understanding STIs and HIV and How to Reduce Your Risk:  Increase knowledge and understanding of STI/HIV transmission and prevention.
                        - Practice Makes Perfect:  Discuss the level of risk associated with various sexual behaviors, use role playing to demonstrate the importance of dual methods, and learn condom use skills.
                        - Using Resources to Support Your Choices:  Discuss ways to improve communication about contraception with foster parents, guardians, and group home staff members; learn how to access local sexual and reproductive health resources.
                        - Making Choices that Fit Your Lifestyle:  Develop a plan for avoiding unwanted pregnancies and STIs, set short- and long-term goals, and identify choices needed to attain goals.
                        - Creating the Future You Want:  Identify planning involved in practicing positive sexual behaviors, outline individual choices involved in sexual decision making, and discuss abstinence as a viable choice.
                        - Plan + Prepare + Practice = POWER:  Reinforce themes and messages of the curriculum.

                        - When working with young people who may have been victims of sexual abuse or rape, as well as youth who struggle to define appropriate boundaries, it is important for the safety of the youth and of your staff that no adult be left alone with a youth at any time.
                        - Utilizing a team of two facilitators allows the team to better reflect the potential diversity of the youth being served. 

### Evidence by Outcome Domain and Study

#### Notes

*Some study entries may include more than one citation because each citation examines a different follow-up period from the same study sample, or because each citation examines a different set of outcome measures on the same study sample. A blank cell indicates the study did not examine any outcome measures within the particular outcome domain or the findings for the outcome measures within that domain did not meet the review evidence standards.*

*Information on evidence of effectiveness is available only for studies that received a high or moderate rating. Read the description of the review process for more information on how these programs are identified.*