National Projects

The projects listed below are of a national scope or are projects that involve more than one regional program office. National projects may also be listed under the sponsoring or lead program office with reference made to the other collaborating regional offices.

There are no National Projects at this time.

Region VI Projects

CRG of Austin, Texas provides dynamic program development, program management, skills-based training, technical assistance, and evaluation planning, to community-based service organizations, institutions, and health and wellness advocates. These organizations located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas are committed to delivering public health information, counseling, education and clinical services to specialized populations including women & children, young males, ethnic & racial minorities, and populations at high risk as a result of age or income including adolescents & young adults.

Family Foundations – Inmate Parenting Education

Generous funding from the Frees and Simmons Foundations, both in Houston, Texas, will ensure that female inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) will have an opportunity to explore and improve their parenting skills. Most female inmates are mothers. The chances of the child of an inmate parent going to prison as an adult are excellent. Teaching female inmates parenting skills is one way to break this cycle that is costly in both dollars and human capital. TDCJ’s existing peer education program provides a built-in, systematic and sustainable venue for increasing parenting skills among hundreds of female inmates.

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Region IX Projects

CRG of Oakland, California, currently sponsors projects related to children’s health and well-being. We manage projects to promote safe routes to school in California and to assist school communities on a national level in promoting healthy exercise through walking and bicycling to and from school safely.

Fertility Awareness Method Project

Funded by the Office of Population Affairs, the purpose of the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) Project is to expand the body of knowledge regarding the reasons why family planning clients choose FAM, specifically the Standard Days Method using CycleBeads, and what the predictors of success are among these clients. In conjunction with Georgetown University's Institute of Reproductive Health, CHT-RG will conduct research at two California clinics to identify and evaluate innovative strategies that could lead to increased or improved utilization of this method, and to increase knowledge and support for individuals and couples wishing to use it.

Region X Projects

CRG of Seattle, Washington has expertise in developing youth-lead prevention curriculum with a focus on alcohol, tobacco and other drug use issues. CRG also provides enhanced coaching and training resources to projects which offer middle to high school aged youth opportunities to build leadership and organizing skills.

Promoting Science-based Approaches

The primary goal of this project is to increase the number of science-based approaches (SBA) for preventing teen pregnancy and STD/HIV being implemented in Washington State. CRG works intensively with local agencies, including schools, health departments, youth-serving CBOs, and health clinics, providing technical assistance and training to build their capacity for implementing SBA. Our secondary goal for this SBA project is to increase statewide support for and knowledge about SBA among policy and decision makers. Toward that end, we collaborate with the Washington State coalition, the Healthy Youth Alliance (HYA) www.healthyyouthalliance.org

Working to Institutionalize Sexuality Education (WISE)

This initiative (WISE) aims to advance sustainable implementation of school-based sexuality education in seven states, and to surface nationally relevant lessons about how to institutionalize effective sex ed programs at the state and local levels. With 2007 passage and 2008 implementation of Washington State's Healthy Youth Act, there are opportunities to advance comprehensive sexual health education (CSE) statewide. The goal of the WISE project is to increase the number of Washington State youth who have access to and receive quality comprehensive sexual health education. CRG—as a member of the Health Youth Alliance (HYA)—will support schools in their compliance with the Healthy Youth Act, a state law that outlines the components of effective sexual health education. WISE will integrate community mobilization, training, technical assistance, and evaluation to increase school and district capacity to adopt, implement, evaluate and sustain sexual health programs. The agencies collaborating on this project include:

• Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
• Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Northern Idaho (PPGWNI)
• Mount Baker Planned Parenthood (MBPP)
• NARAL Pro-choice Washington
• Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW)
• Public Health-Seattle and King County (PHSKC)

CRG/HYA aims to increase access to and implementation of comprehensive sexuality education using the following strategies:

• Strategy 1: Respond to the need to educate communities and shift public perception about comprehensive sexuality education through community organizing, education, and training where CSE might make a difference.
• Strategy 2: Collaborate with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to provide training and technical assistance to increase each school/district’s capacity to select, adapt, implement, evaluate, and sustain CSE.

Funding for this two year project is provided through a collaboration between the Grove, David and Lucile Packard, and Ford foundations.