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.
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.
Making a Difference: Addressing Teen Pregnancy in our Communities
At the core of our capability is an understanding of Teen Pregnancy Prevention in communities and the challenges that community based organizations (CBOs) and reproductive health providers face in addressing this issue. We bring over 30 years of training and technical assistance (T&TA) experience in enhancing the ability of Title X Family Planning programs and other reproductive health providers to deliver high quality family planning clinical and educational services in over states. CHT Resource Group (CRG) staff has expertise in assisting programs to tailor evidence-based interventions to their communities and populations. CRG’s approach to developing training is based on several adult learning and experiential methodologies including popular education, action learning, accelerated learning and radical education.
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, a state law that outlines the components of effective sexual health education, there are opportunities to advance comprehensive sexual health education (CSE) statewide. CRG—as a member of the Health Youth Alliance (HYA)—will support schools in their compliance with the Healthy Youth Act.
DHHS Regions
Since much of our work relates to the Federal Government's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), references made to "Regions" correspond to the 10 DHHS geographical regions covering the entire U.S. In various places, we have listed the respective States covered by each DHHS region in which we operate.
