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Program Overview
Empowering Youth Today (EYT) is a strength based, positive youth development program that
incorporates sexual risk avoidance education. It aims to provide Michigan youth, ages 10-15, the
tools needed to plan their future through high school/ college and complete goals without an
unplanned/unintended pregnancy. EYT emphasizes the delay of sexual initiation by developing
adolescent’s decision-making skills and promoting protective, healthy relationships. The five
components of EYT that all funded agencies must include are youth programming, parent engagement,
community awareness, advisory council and community service learning.
Purpose
The purpose of the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Empowering Youth Today Program
is to fund projects to implement SRAE that teaches participants to delay the onset of sexual activity.
EYT also teaches the benefits associated with self-regulation, success sequencing for poverty prevention,
healthy relationships, goal setting, resisting sexual coercion, dating violence, and other risky behaviors
such as underage drinking or illicit drug use without normalizing teen sexual activity.
Funding
The Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program is funded generally under the authority of
section 1110 of the Social Security Act, 42 U S C §1310 and specifically by the appropriation for
General Departmental Management for the Office of the Secretary under Division H, Title II of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 Pub L No 114 113.
EYT funding is made possible through The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Family
Youth Services Bureau, and The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Evaluation
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with the Michigan Public Health Institute’s Center for Healthy Communities (MPHI CHC) to lead the evaluation of the EYT project. Funded agencies are required to collect the following information
Program Contact
Robyn Corey
State Sexual Risk Avoidance Coordinator
Coreyr1@michigan.gov
517.242-8914