UTH

Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

Project

Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care Research/iCHAMPSS 2.0.

Project Overview

UTHealth leads the research arm of the Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care. This work includes developing sexual health education for youth in foster care and adults that work with them, updating iCHAMPSS, and reviewing sex-ed programs for TEKS alignment.

https://sph.uth.edu/research/centers/chppr/ichampss/ 

After the measure is developed, it will be further tested in health clinics for validity and reliability and then in schools delivering a nutrition program to The Houston Collaborative for Youth in Care (CLYC), led by Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, is funded by Houston Endowment. Comprised of seven partnering organizations with expertise in the child welfare system and adolescent sexual reproductive health, CLYC focuses on teen pregnancy prevention among youth with child welfare system experience and adolescents statewide. The collaborative has three arms: research and outreach, advocacy, and workforce development. UTHealth adolescent health researchers lead the Research and Outreach Workgroup.

Overall, CLYC’s goals are to:

  1. Understand the complex issue of teen pregnancy among Houston youth in care
  2. Identify best practices to prevent unintended pregnancy and provide support to young parents
  3. Develop strategies to strengthen existing programs for youth and caregivers with lived experience
  4. Provide workforce development opportunities for current and former youth in care
  5. Develop a long-term advocacy strategy to improve related statewide policies and systems.

In 2019, as part of the Research and Outreach Workgroup, UTHealth was charged with doing a needs and assets assessment using Intervention Mapping (a planning framework to construct programs based on evidence and theory). The assessment included targeted literature reviews for sexual reproductive health education among youth in care, and qualitative interviews with young adults formerly in care and adults who work with them. It also involved a review of sexual health programs that could be used with the target population if found to be evidence-based, medically accurate, and trauma-informed.

Currently, UTHealth is developing a digital resource tool kit for pregnant and parenting youth in care, updating Choosing and Maintaining Effective Programs for Sex Education in Schools (iCHAMPSS), and reviewing existing evidence-based programs for new Texas Sexual Health TEKS alignment. 

Partners

CLYC-Partners-Victoria Kwentua

Project Staff

Project personnel are listed below. Click on a name to view the individual profile.

Thumbnail image for CHPPR updates state-wide sexual health education program model

CHPPR updates state-wide sexual health education program model

Researchers at the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) at UTHealth School of Public Health have updated and enhanced their innovative theory- and Web-based decision support system, iCHAMPSS (Choosing and Maintaining Effective Programs for Sex Education in Schools).

Thumbnail image for Updates to iCHAMPSS Decision-Support System Aim to Help Educators Meet Revised Requirements for Sexual Health Education in Texas Schools

Updates to iCHAMPSS Decision-Support System Aim to Help Educators Meet Revised Requirements for Sexual Health Education in Texas Schools

iCHAMPSS, a CHPPR-developed web-based implementation strategy and toolkit, has been updated to provide guidance for implementing sexual health education curricula in line with recent updates by the Texas State Board of Education and Texas legislature.

LOADING...
LOADING...