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| pg. 485 opportunities to build connections with caring adults that enhance critical knowledge and skills about STD prevention, sexual risk avoidance, values clarification, communication, and healthy relationships and behaviors in the context of their lives. Program sites are dispersed throughout the state with focus on areas with higher than statewide teen birth and/or STD/STI rates, or where disparities in teen birth rates and/or STD/STI rates are documented. Personal Responsibility Education Grant Program (PREP) The overarching goal statement for Nebraska’s PREP is for Nebraska youth to be empowered to live safe, healthy, and successful lives through relationships with caring and supportive adults guiding them to development healthy behaviors, healthy relationships and life skills. PREP programming applies a Positive Youth Development framework in educational settings to build knowledge and skills around goal setting, values, communication skills, sexual health, birth control, STD/STI’s, and healthy relationships and behaviors in the context of their lives. Program sites are dispersed throughout the state with focus on areas with higher than statewide teen birth and/or STD/STI rates, or where disparities in teen birth rates and/or STD/STI rates are documented. F. 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 TO INCLUDE MEN (SECTION 402(A)(1)(A)(VI) OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT) State Rape Education Program Nebraska Revised Statutes 28–317 to 321, Crimes and Punishments, does not distinguish between genders. The State Rape Education Program serves all genders equally without distinction. The educational services provided are the same for both genders statewide. The program receives grant from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) which must be spent on rape prevention. The Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center, the Nebraska State Patrol, and the Omaha Police Department are the three entities responsible for providing training to Nebraska’s law enforcement officials on the problem of statutory rape. In addition, DHHS contracts with the Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition to provide training and technical assistance to local rape crisis centers as well as local police departments upon request regarding statutory rape. The Lindsay Ann Burke Act (Nebraska Revised State Statue 79-2,141) requires each school district to provide dating violence training to staff deemed appropriate by a school district's administration. The dating violence training shall include, but not be limited to, basic awareness of dating violence, warning signs of dating violence, and the school district's dating violence policy. The Nebraska Department of Education provides resources to schools to be utilized in their training including information on statutory rape. G. IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AS NECESSARY TO PREVENT ACCESS TO ASSISTANCE PROVIDED UNDER THE STATE PROGRAM FUNDED UNDER THIS PART THROUGH ANY ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSACTION IN AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE OR POINT-OF-SALE DEVICE LOCATED IN A PLACE DESCRIBED IN SECTION 408(A)(12), INCLUDING A PLAN TO ENSURE THAT RECIPIENTS OF THE ASSISTANCE HAVE ADEQUATE ACCESS TO THEIR CASH ASSISTANCE (SECTION 402(A)(1)(A)(VII) OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT)