3,705
Participants
Start Date
October 1, 2025
Primary Completion Date
August 31, 2029
Study Completion Date
November 30, 2029
Biweekly monitoring and feedback (BMF)
School coordinators will monitor teachers' implementation progress biweekly and provide feedback to teachers.
Site-based assistance and mentorship (SAM)
High-performing teachers will serve as team leaders and guide non-responding teachers on preparation and planning. The team leader will promote group activities and enhance interaction among teachers in these meetings.
Enhanced site-based assistance and mentorship (Enhanced SAM)
A FOYC coach (with FOYC implementation and training experience) will provide tailored in-person support, facilitate goal-setting, opportunities to interact with consultants, supportive text messaging, continuing education, networking strategies, and monthly check-ins.
FOYC+CImPACT
"Focus on Youth in the Caribbean (FOYC) is an evidence-based, eight-session life skills curriculum designed to reduce risk-taking behaviors related to HIV/STI transmission and teen pregnancy. Woven throughout FOYC is a decision-making model that provides guidance and practice in problem solving with a focus on how to obtain factual information on sexual health.~CImPACT is a single-session intervention including a 24-min educational video filmed in The Bahamas. The video focuses on effective parent-adolescent communication and listening strategies related to difficult topics including safe-sex followed by two role-plays for the parent and youth, a discussion, and a condom demonstration."
HIV/AIDS Office, FOY program, Nassau
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Ministry of Health, Bahamas
UNKNOWN
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
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