SYV yakima county sexual risk avoidance program (YC-srae)

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded $1,006,515 to Citizens For Safe Yakima Valley Communities on September 30, 2025, under the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program (CFDA 93.787) to implement the SYV Yakima County Sexual Risk Avoidance Program (YC-SRAE).

YC-SRAE delivers a multimodal sexual risk avoidance education program grounded in Love Notes 4.1 SRA Edition, a federally approved, evidence-based curriculum targeting youth ages 10–19 in Yakima County, Washington. The program focuses on populations experiencing poverty, housing instability, exposure to substance use and overdose, school disengagement, trauma, family violence, trafficking, and geographic or linguistic isolation, predominantly in the Lower Valley and rural or tribal communities. The curriculum is supplemented by positive youth development activities designed to build decision-making and self-regulation skills, reinforce abstinence-based standards, and improve healthy relationship skills. The program addresses gaps in trauma-informed, abstinence-based education identified in the 2025 Yakima County STI Services Report.

Performance extends through September 29, 2027, with all work conducted in Washington. The award is structured as a Project Grant, with non-competing continuation funding available for subsequent budget periods subject to satisfactory progress and compliance with award terms.