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• The AFLP is a strengths-based case management program with integrated life planning for expectant and parenting youth under 19 years of age. The program supports youth in building resilience strengths and skills to thrive. The goals are to improve pregnancy planning and spacing and increase educational and vocational attainment, access to and utilization of needed services, and social and emotional support. • The Family PACT Program, administered by the California Department of Health Care Services’ Office of Family Planning, is a statewide comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services program aimed to reduce unintended pregnancy through expanded access to family planning and reproductive health services for low-income Californians, including adolescents. Some of the services covered under Family PACT include all Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods and client-centered reproductive health education and contraceptive counseling. • California has a stated goal of reducing the incidence of pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among individuals aged 17 or younger. CDPH has undertaken this challenge through continuing efforts in adolescent sexual health education, and primary and secondary pregnancy prevention programs in the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division. • These prevention programs require linkages or referrals to Family PACT enrolled providers. This helps ensure that young people receiving prevention programming are aware of and can access health services, including information and counseling.

vi. Outline how the state intends to conduct a program designed to reach state and local law enforcement officials, the education system, and relevant counseling services, that provides education and training on the problem of statutory rape so that teenage pregnancy prevention programs may be expanded in scope to include men.

The CDPH currently funds 23 local rape crisis centers to implement population- based sexual violence prevention programs through the federally funded Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program, which is designed to change social norms that perpetuate sexual violence. The RPE Program targets individuals of all ages, races, and circumstances. Most of the RPE program contractors are working in schools and communities to offer educational activities that are aimed at promoting healthy relationships and consent.

Many of the California local RPE Program contractors work with law enforcement, community-based organizations, and educational institutions to conduct outreach and prevention education within their communities. Local rape crisis centers address the spectrum of sexual violence, including statutory rape, during their prevention education activities targeting adolescents.