B. ALLOCATION PROPOSAL
GENERAL FUND ALLOCATIONS ARE TENTATIVE. THE AMOUNTS ALLOCATED MAY BE REDUCED BY EXECUTIVE RESTRICTIONS AND/OR INTERNAL REDUCTIONS.
TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION TRNG-DHS FY05, 13011
1. Purpose
To provide teen pregnancy prevention training and implement the Making a Difference (MAD) and Reducing the Risk (RTR) curriculums to support Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) teen pregnancy prevention program.
2. Rationale for Allocation
The Department of Human Services (DHS), Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Education (DOE) all recognize the need to collaborate on quality and comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention trainings. Prevention education is the key to reducing the number of teen pregnancies in the schools and communities.
3. Guidelines for Implementation
A Memorandum of Agreement exists between the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education to implement the MAD and RTR curriculums with the following requirements:
1. DOE shall provide oversight for the upper elementary, middle and high school teachers' involvement in the teen pregnancy prevention training and implementation. This oversight shall include all planning and coordination for training and implementation of the MAD and RTR to support TANF teen pregnancy prevention training programs.
2. DOE shall collaborate with the DHS, Benefit Employment and Support Services Division (BESSD), DOH, Maternal and Child Health Branch (MCHB), University of Hawaii, Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), UHM, College of Education; and the Hawaii Teen Pregnancy Interagency Workgroup in the school of services performance.
The scope of services shall include:
a. Providing information to recruit and enroll seventy (70) upper elementary school and/or middle school teachers, and thirty-five (35) high school teachers in teen pregnancy prevention trainings.
b. Obtaining written commitment from seventy (70) upper elementary and/or middle school teachers, and thirty-five (35) high school teachers to provide two (2) annual classroom trainings, attend two (2) follow-up training sessions, and participate in outcome evaluation for both teacher and student trainings. Elementary school teachers will be required to provide one (1) classroom training.
c. Providing for two (2), two-day MAD Curriculum Training for seventy (70) upper elementary and/or middle school teachers. One (1) training shall be held in Oahu County and one (1) training shall be held in Hawaii County.
d. Providing a two-day RTR Curriculum Training for thirty-five (35) high school teachers in Oahu County.
e. Providing one (1) one-day RTR Curriculum Training for twenty (20) PEP Coordinators and one hundred (100) PEP high school students to incorporate RTR lessons into PEP presentations.
f. Providing for four (4) additional training days for all upper elementary and/or middle school teachers trained in the MAD Curriculum. Two (2) trainings shall be held in Oahu County and two (2) trainings shall be held in Hawaii County. Follow-up trainings will provide participants' opportunities to discuss and address implementation challenges, implementation of the MAD lesson plans in coordination with the sexual health standards, meet with the JABSOM project evaluator and address other training needs as required.
g. Providing for two (2) additional training days for all high school teachers trained in the RTR Curriculum in Oahu County. Follow-up trainings will provide participants' opportunities to discuss and address implementation challenges, implementation of the RTR lesson plans in coordination with the sexual health standards, meet with the JABSOM project evaluator and address other training needs as required.
h. Providing training to approximately five thousand and four hundred (5,400) upper elementary and/or middle school and high school students in either MAD or RTR Curriculum Trainings by trained upper elementary and/or middle and high school teachers.
i. Working in collaboration with the UHM, Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, and JABSOM project evaluator, to evaluate upper elementary and/or middle school teachers trained in MAD, and high and Peer Education Program Coordinators and students trained in RTR Curriculum. The evaluations shall include all participants of these curriculums.
j. Meeting quarterly with the Hawaii Teen Pregnancy Interagency Workgroup to share teen pregnancy training outcomes and evaluate ongoing TANF teen pregnancy prevention training state programs.
k. Submitting to DHS, BESSD, via DOH, MCHB, written quarterly reports and a final report within thirty (30) calendar days of the end of these time periods and required fiscal expenditure reports in the format required by DHS. Program reports shall include demographic data of the target population served (i.e., unduplicated and total count by age groups, gender and ethnicity) and outcomes on the progress and challenges of completing the scope of services of this Agreement.
4. Allocation of Resources
$126,208 will be allocated to the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Services (OCISS), Instructional Services Branch (ISB) (041000), Health and Physical Education Programs. Funds will be used for the following items:
Consultant/Trainers $24,000
Training Materials $22,050
Travel $12,200
Other Personal Services (Substitutes) $58,400
Others (Meals, facilities, supplies) $9,558
OBS, Accounting Section (899000):
Indirect Cost (2.1%) $2,707
Total $128,915
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