Street Smart Evaluation Field Guide

Street Smart is an intensive HIV/AIDS and STD prevention program for youth whose behaviors place them at risk of becoming infected. Life circumstances define risk for some youth; being runaway or homeless, gay, or a sex offender increases the potential for risky behavior. The Street Smart program is designed for runaway and homeless youth, yet it can be easily adapted for youth in other settings. The Street Smart program targets youth, ages 11 to 18. This is 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 Evaluation Field Guide was developed to provide community-based organizations implementing Street Smart with knowledge and tools to systematically conduct monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities that will inform, guide, and assess their Street Smart activities and increase their effectiveness. The evaluation field guide recommends staff responsibilities, indicates how an agency should track intervention activities and collect and manage data, states how data could be analyzed, and suggests plans for the dissemination of the data to Street Smart stakeholders.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019