**U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ANNOUNCEMENTS**

**Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention**

**July 28th, 2014 Meeting**

**New Health Data Statistics Report on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) populations**

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released a new health data statistics report on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) populations. The report provides national estimates for indicators of health-related behaviors, health status, health care service utilization, and health care access by sexual orientation through the use of data from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). This marks the first time nationally representative data on sexual orientation is available through the NHIS.   http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf

**Special Issue from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics focused on Young Adults**

This year, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (the Forum) published *America's Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014*, a one-time report on young adults in the United States, ages 18–24. The Forum is a collection of 22 Federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families.  Findings in the report highlight data trends and snapshots of the education, health and well-being of this population as they transition to adulthood.  The report includes data from nationally representative, federally sponsored surveys, summarized under five key themes: education, economic circumstances, family formation, civic, social, and personal behavior, and health and safety.  The full report and the accompanying press release can be found at http://childstats.gov/.  The report is also featured on the Office of Adolescent Health’s web page at http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/index.html

**New Online Courses for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programming**

Two online courses were released for reproductive health educators and other youth service workers by the Administration for Children and Families’ Family and Youth Services Bureau on *Creating a Safe Space for LGBTQ Teens* and *Adolescent Development*.  

· The safe space related training is designed to help those who deliver teen pregnancy prevention programming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning, or LGBTQ, youth. 

· The Adolescent Development course enables program managers and youth workers to integrate concepts of healthy adolescent development into their teen pregnancy prevention and sexuality education programs. Participants will learn about adolescent brain development and how to use that knowledge when planning programs for teens.  

The e-learning modules are available at:  http://ncfy.acf.hhs.gov/online-training.

**First Report from the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Multi-Component Evaluation on States’ Implementation of Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs**

The Administration for Children and Families’ Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program released a report that documents states’ program decisions, drawing from data collected through telephone interviews with state grantee officials in 44 states and the District of Columbia. The report is the first product of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Multi-Component Evaluation, led by Mathematica Policy Research. To learn more about the Family and Youth Services Bureau’s (FYSB) national program, please see FYSB’s recent study of the State PREP, available as a full report (PDF, 1.5MB) and 3-page brief (PDF, 756KB).

Please find additional Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention resources at http://teenpregnancy.acf.hhs.gov/