FY2026 Personal Responsibility Education Program Innovative Strategies (PREIS)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau, Division of Positive Youth Development
Program overview
Eligible organizations seeking to implement and rigorously evaluate innovative adolescent pregnancy prevention interventions for high-risk, vulnerable youth; not a student-facing program.
Eligibility
Must have active SAM.gov registration and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), active Grants.gov registration, and Login.gov registration. Proposed intervention must show compelling positive preliminary evidence and must not have been evaluated through an RCT or QED. Must propose rigorous impact evaluation with treatment and control groups, use an independent third-party evaluator, allocate at least 20 percent of funding per year to that evaluator, educate adolescents on abstinence and contraception to prevent pregnancy and STIs including HIV/AIDS, carry out at least three of six Adulthood Preparation Subjects, participate in APP evaluation support and technical assistance, and share evaluation findings. · Not applicable; eligibility is unrestricted except individuals (including sole proprietorships), federal entities, and foreign entities are not eligible to apply.
Key details
- Organization
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Family and Youth Services Bureau, Division of Positive Youth Development
- Type
- Federal grant / cooperative agreement
- Application deadline
- August 18, 2026, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time
- Cost
- No cost-sharing requirement
- Time commitment
- Five-year project period
- Application status
- Open
How to apply
Apply on the program's own site. Details here were read from that page and can change — confirm them there before applying.