A multi-session,
skills-building program to help youth practice
safer sexual behaviors and reduce substance use. Sessions address
improving youths' social skills, assertiveness and coping through
exercises on problem solving, identifying triggers, and reducing
harmful behaviors. Agency staff also provide individual counseling and
trips to community health providers.
The Street Smart program targets youth, ages 11 to 18. The original research was conducted with runaway youth and homeless youth, however the intervention is not limited to that sub-population.
Appropriate Participants for the Street Smart Training of Facilitators (TOF) Training
The
Street Smart training is an intensive training developed and designed
specifically for staff of agencies who are implementing or ready to
implement the Street Smart intervention. These agencies will receive
priority for acceptance into the trainings. As space allows, others may
be accepted as participants in the training. A limited number of
observers are accepted into the training and may include: health
department managers who are monitoring agency grantees and CDC Project
Officers.
Webinar
Cicatelli Associates, Inc. presented a Street Smart Webinar on September 10, 2009.
The webinar was designed to prepare agency staff and stakeholders on
how to implement the Street Smart intervention, including associated
costs and potential challenges.
To view the Powerpoint presentation from the webinar, please click here.
Research and Development
Rotheram-Borus,
M., Van Rossem, R., Gwadz, M., Koopman, C., Lee, M. (1997). Reductions
in HIV risk among runaway youths. Los Angeles, University of
California, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Social and Community
Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA.
Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Song, J.,
Gwadz, M., Lee, M., Van Rossem, R., Koopman, C. (1993). Reductions in
HIV Risk Among Runaway Youth. Prevention Science, 4(3), 173-187.
Program Review Panel Information
The
CDC requires all CDC-funded agencies using the Street Smart
intervention to identify, or establish, and utilize a Program Review
Panel and complete Form 0.1113 to document this activity. The
intervention researchers and developers are not involved in this
activity. This is a CDC requirement for their grantees, and all
questions in this regard should be directed to your agency's CDC
Project Officer or to the health department funding your agency's
implementation of the intervention.
The Program Review Panel guidelines, instructions for completion of Form 0.113, and the form itself are available under the Related Links section of this website.
CDC Policy on Youth Peer Outreach Workers
CDC funded (directly or indirectly) agencies using youth (either paid or volunteer) in program outreach activities need to use caution and judgment in the venues/situations where youth workers are placed. Agencies should give careful
consideration to the "age appropriateness" of the activity or venue.
Additionally, agencies should comply with all relevant laws and
regulations regarding entrance into adult establishments/environments.
Laws and curfews should be clearly outlined in required safety
protocols developed and implemented by agencies directly and indirectly
funded by CDC.
If you have specific questions, please contact your CDC project officer.