Overview
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Focus on Youth (FOY) with ImPACT
Investigators: Bonita Stanton, MD, PhD, Jennifer Galbraith, PhD, Cherri Gardner, MA, Pam Drake, PhD, James Walker, Scott Martin, Teree Jerome, Suzanne Schrag, Sarah Stevens, Charlene Foster, & the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Publication Date: October 31, 2018
About This Product
Focus on Youth with Informed Parents and Children Together (ImPACT) is an HIV, STD and pregnancy prevention intervention for African-American youth ages 12–15. The intervention was updated from Focus on Kids, a community-university linked research and intervention program. The goal of Focus on Youth with ImPACT is to reduce the risk of HIV infection among youth. The researchers, led by principle investigator Bonita Stanton, M.D., worked with community members from recreation centers, housing developments, schools and government agencies in settings throughout the U.S. to reach this goal.
The evaluation of the combined Focus on Kids and ImPACT interventions met the necessary criteria for the interventions identified as interventions with best evidence of efficacy by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) Project. Focus on Kids alone was identified as an intervention with promising evidence.
This Focus on Youth with ImPACT edition provides updated information and more tools to facilitate implementation and increase the relevance of the program for African-American youth between ages 12 and 15 who are at risk for HIV infection.
ImPACT is a 90-minute HIV prevention program for parents of African-American adolescents used in combination with Focus on Youth. ImPACT is delivered to parents/guardians and youth, one family at a time, by a health educator. It consists of basic HIV information, a culturally appropriate video documentary that stresses parental monitoring and communication, a discussion with the health educator, two guided roleplays, a parent/guardian resource guide, and a condom demonstration. It was guided by parental monitoring theory and theory of parenting (passive, authoritarian and authoritative).
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Planning & Pre-Implementation
- Materials
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Implementation
- FOY Session 1: We're All in This Together
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- FOY Session 2: Risks and Values
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- FOY Session 3: Educate Yourself: Obtaining Information
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- FOY Session 4: Educate Yourself: Examining Consequences
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- FOY Session 5: Build Skills: Communication
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- FOY Session 6: Sexual Health and Showing You Care Without Having Sex
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- FOY Session 7: Attitudes and Skills for Sexual Health
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- FOY Session 8: Review and Community Project
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Evaluation
Product Details
- 8-session intervention for youth ages 12-15
- 90-minute complementary program for parents
- Discussion, games, role play, and exercises