Project Length: 2022-2024

Wyoming Families First (WFF), in collaboration with Rite of Passage Meadowlark Academy, Youth Alternatives, Goodwill Wyoming Independent Living Services and the Community Prevention Division of Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, is pleased to be delivering a Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program geared towards vulnerable youth referred from local juvenile courts and social service agencies from all over Wyoming.

Through the Brighter Futures project, WFF’s objective is to empower teen participants to make informed healthy choices while developing needed skills that support their health and well-being and ensure their ability to achieve future success and goals.

Using a preventative education approach, we aim to teach adolescents the consequences of engaging in risky behaviors, sexual and otherwise. In addition to offering instruction, teens have the opportunity to build positive competencies through the utilization of a Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework and student-led community service projects designed to help participants:

• Develop healthy life skills
  
• Increase individual protective factors that reduce risks
  
• Make healthy decisions, engage in healthy relationships
  
• Set goals that lead to self-sufficiency and marriage before engaging in sexual activity

Take a look at the SRAE Curriculum below for more information!

*REAL Essentials Advance from the Center of Relationship Education is the highly acclaimed curriculum suited for middle and high school students. This curriculum is specifically designed to help young people navigate the mine fields of relationships, romantic attachments, choices, challenges, obstacles, and temptations they will face in adolescence.

Love Notes 3.0 Evidence-Based Program Model (EBP) from The Dibble institute is designed for youth in middle and high school. The curriculum helps teens make healthy relationship, dating, and sexual decisions for themselves by focusing on their futures. It is a lively, media-infused and activity-based comprehensive healthy relationship skills and sexual risk avoidance program for young teens.

Funding to support the Brighter Futures project is made available under the Title V Competitive Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program through the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

For more information on this project, please email info@wyofams.org.