Sec. 50206. Impact evaluation and reporting
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Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a contract with a nonprofit organization with experience in conducting impact evaluations to conduct a multi-year evaluation on the impact of the grants under sections 50203, 50204, and 50205, and to report to Congress and the Secretary on the findings of such evaluation. The evaluation conducted under this subsection shall— be conducted in a manner consistent with relevant, nationally recognized professional and technical evaluation standards; use sound statistical methods and techniques relating to the behavioral sciences, including quasi-experimental designs, inferential statistics, and other methodologies and techniques that allow for conclusions to be reached; be carried out by an independent organization that has not received a grant under section 50203, 50204, or 50205; and be designed to provide information on— output measures, such as the number of individuals served under the grant and the number of hours of instruction; outcome measures, including measures relating to— the knowledge that individuals participating in the grant program have gained with respect to— growth and development; relationship dynamics; ways to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; and sexual health; the age and developmentally appropriate skills that individuals participating in the grant program have gained regarding— negotiation and communication; decision making and goal-setting; interpersonal skills and healthy relationships; and condom use; and the behaviors of adolescents participating in the grant program, including data about— age of first intercourse; condom and contraceptive use at first intercourse; recent condom and contraceptive use; substance use; dating abuse and lifetime history of sexual assault, dating violence, bullying, harassment, stalking; and academic performance; and other measures necessary to evaluate the impact of the grant program.
Not later than 6 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the organization conducting the evaluation under this subsection shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and the Secretary an evaluation report. Such report shall be made publicly available, including on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for a period of 5 years, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the activities to provide adolescents and young people with comprehensive sex education and pre-service and in-service teacher training funded under this subtitle.
The Secretary’s report to Congress shall include— a statement of how grants awarded by the Secretary meet the purposes described in section 50202(a); and information about— the number of eligible entities and institutions of higher education that are receiving grant funds under sections 50203, 50204, and 50205; the specific activities supported by grant funds awarded under sections 50203, 50204, and 50205; the number of adolescents served by grant programs funded under section 50203; the number of young people served by grant programs funded under section 50204; the number of faculty, school administrators, teachers, and staff trained under section 50205; and the status of the evaluation required under subsection (a).