Subdivision 1. Establishment. To the extent funds are available for the purposes of this subdivision, the commissioner of health, in consultation with a representative from Minnesota planning, the commissioner of human services, and the commissioner of education, shall develop and implement the Minnesota education now and babies later (MN ENABL) program, targeted to adolescents ages 12 to 14, with the goal of reducing the incidence of adolescent pregnancy in the state and promoting abstinence until marriage. The program must provide a multifaceted, primary prevention, community health promotion approach to educating and supporting adolescents in the decision to postpone sexual involvement modeled after the ENABL program in California. The commissioner of health shall consult with the chief of the health education section of the California Department of Health Services for general guidance in developing and implementing the program.
Subd. 2. Definition. "Community-based local contractor" or "contractor" includes community health boards under section 145A.02, nonprofit organizations, or school districts. The community-based local contractors may provide the education component of MN ENABL in a variety of settings including, but not limited to, schools, religious establishments, local community centers, and youth camps.
Subd. 3. Duties of commissioner of health. The commissioner shall:
(1) manage the grant process, including awarding and monitoring grants to community-based local contractors, and may contract with community-based local contractors that can demonstrate at least a 25 percent local match and agree to participate in the four MN ENABL program components under subdivision 4;
(2) provide technical assistance to the community-based local contractors as necessary under subdivision 4;
(3) develop and implement the evaluation component, and provide centralized coordination at the state level of the evaluation process; and
(4) explore and pursue the federal funding possibilities and specifically request funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to supplement the development and implementation of the program.
Subd. 4. Program components. (a) The program must include the following four major components:
(b) A community organization component in which the community-based local contractors shall include:
(1) use of a postponing sexual involvement education curriculum targeted to boys and girls ages 12 to 14 in schools and community settings;
(2) planning and implementing community organization strategies to convey and reinforce the MN ENABL message of postponing sexual involvement, including activities promoting awareness and involvement of parents and other primary caregivers/significant adults, schools, and community; and
(3) development of local media linkages.
(c) A statewide, comprehensive media and public relations campaign to promote changes in sexual attitudes and behaviors, and reinforce the message of postponing adolescent sexual involvement and promoting abstinence from sexual activity until marriage. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the commissioner from targeting populations that historically have had a high incidence of adolescent pregnancy with culturally appropriate messages on abstinence from sexual activity.
The commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, shall develop and implement the media and public relations campaign. In developing the campaign, the commissioner of health shall coordinate and consult with representatives from ethnic and local communities to maximize effectiveness of the social marketing approach to health promotion among the culturally diverse population of the state. The commissioner may continue to use any campaign materials or media messages developed or produced prior to July 1, 1999.
The local community-based contractors shall collaborate and coordinate efforts with other community organizations and interested persons to provide school and community-wide promotional activities that support and reinforce the message of the MN ENABL curriculum.
(d) An evaluation component which evaluates the process and the impact of the program.
The "process evaluation" must provide information to the state on the breadth and scope of the program. The evaluation must identify program areas that might need modification and identify local MN ENABL contractor strategies and procedures which are particularly effective. Contractors must keep complete records on the demographics of clients served, number of direct education sessions delivered and other appropriate statistics, and must document exactly how the program was implemented. The commissioner may select contractor sites for more in-depth case studies.
The "impact evaluation" must provide information to the state on the impact of the different components of the MN ENABL program and an assessment of the impact of the program on adolescents' related sexual knowledge, attitudes, and risk-taking behavior.
The commissioner shall compare the MN ENABL evaluation information and data with similar evaluation data from other states pursuing a similar adolescent pregnancy prevention program modeled after ENABL and use the information to improve MN ENABL and build on aspects of the program that have demonstrated a delay in adolescent sexual involvement.
(e) A training component requiring the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, to provide comprehensive uniform training to the local MN ENABL community-based local contractors and the direct education program staff.
The local community-based contractors may use adolescent leaders slightly older than the adolescents in the program to impart the message to postpone sexual involvement provided:
(1) the contractor follows a protocol for adult mentors/leaders and older adolescent leaders established by the commissioner of health;
(2) the older adolescent leader is accompanied by an adult leader; and
(3) the contractor uses the curriculum as directed and required by the commissioner of the Department of Health to implement this part of the program. The commissioner of health shall provide technical assistance to community-based local contractors.
1995 c 257 art 4 s 1; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 16 s 13; 1999 c 245 art 2 s 32,33; 2003 c 130 s 12; 2008 c 363 art 17 s 4; 2014 c 291 art 7 s 28
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions
Section 145.075 — Injunctive Relief Brought By Commissioner.
Section 145.131 — Findings And Purpose.
Section 145.135 — Uniform Determination Of Death Act.
Section 145.161 — Dissection; When Permitted.
Section 145.1621 — Disposition Of Aborted Or Miscarried Fetuses.
Section 145.1622 — Policy For Notification Of Disposition Options.
Section 145.267 — Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Grants.
Section 145.30 — Superintendent Of Hospitals To Transfer Records.
Section 145.31 — Copies To Be Used As Evidence.
Section 145.32 — Old Records May Be Destroyed.
Section 145.33 — Construction.
Section 145.36 — Exposing Person With Contagious Disease.
Section 145.365 — Trafficking In Skunks.
Section 145.37 — Manufacture Of Certain Products Which May Be Injurious.
Section 145.41 — Blood Donations, Age Of Donor.
Section 145.411 — Regulation Of Abortions; Definitions.
Section 145.412 — Criminal Acts.
Section 145.413 — Recording And Reporting Health Data.
Section 145.4131 — Recording And Reporting Abortion Data.
Section 145.4132 — Recording And Reporting Abortion Complication Data.
Section 145.4133 — Reporting Out-of-state Abortions.
Section 145.4134 — Commissioner's Public Report.
Section 145.4135 — Enforcement; Penalties.
Section 145.4136 — Severability.
Section 145.414 — Abortion Not Mandatory.
Section 145.415 — Live Fetus After Abortion, Treatment.
Section 145.416 — Licensing And Regulation Of Facilities.
Section 145.42 — Abortions; Nonliability For Refusal To Perform.
Section 145.421 — Human Conceptus, Living; Definitions.
Section 145.422 — Experimentation, Research Or Sale.
Section 145.423 — Abortion; Live Births.
Section 145.4235 — Positive Abortion Alternatives.
Section 145.424 — Prohibition Of Tort Actions.
Section 145.4241 — Definitions.
Section 145.4242 — Informed Consent.
Section 145.4243 — Printed Information.
Section 145.4244 — Internet Website.
Section 145.4245 — Procedure In Case Of Medical Emergency.
Section 145.4246 — Reporting Requirements.
Section 145.4248 — Severability.
Section 145.4249 — Supreme Court Jurisdiction.
Section 145.425 — Pay Toilets In Public Places; Prohibitions; Penalty.
Section 145.471 — Prenatal Trisomy Diagnosis Awareness Act.
Section 145.4711 — Definitions.
Section 145.4712 — Emergency Care To Sexual Assault Victims.
Section 145.4713 — Complaints.
Section 145.4715 — Reporting Prevalence Of Sexual Violence.
Section 145.4716 — Safe Harbor For Sexually Exploited Youth.
Section 145.4717 — Regional Navigator Grants.
Section 145.4718 — Program Evaluation.
Section 145.56 — Suicide Prevention.
Section 145.62 — Providing Information To Review Organization; Immunity.
Section 145.63 — Review Organization; Advisory Capacity; Immunity.
Section 145.64 — Confidentiality Of Records Of Review Organization.
Section 145.65 — Guidelines Not Admissible In Evidence.
Section 145.66 — Penalty For Violation.
Section 145.67 — Protection Of Patient.
Section 145.671 — Pediatric Vaccine Administration.
Section 145.672 — Healthy Children Through Immunization.
Section 145.682 — Certification Of Expert Review; Affidavit.
Section 145.698 — Confinement Of Drug Dependent Person.
Section 145.711 — Definitions.
Section 145.712 — Requirements For Contact Lenses Prescriptions.
Section 145.713 — Optometrist And Physician Practices.
Section 145.7131 — Exception To Eyeglass Prescription Expiration.
Section 145.714 — Enforcement.
Section 145.851 — Definitions.
Section 145.852 — Identifying Devices For Persons Having Certain Conditions.
Section 145.853 — Duty Of Law Enforcement Officer.
Section 145.854 — Duty Of Medical Practitioners.
Section 145.855 — Duty Of Others.
Section 145.856 — Falsifying Identification Or Misrepresenting Condition; Penalty.
Section 145.857 — Other Duties.
Section 145.867 — Persons Requiring Special Diets.
Section 145.87 — Home Visiting For Pregnant Women And Families With Young Children.
Section 145.8811 — Maternal And Child Health Advisory Task Force.
Section 145.882 — Maternal And Child Health Block Grant Distribution.
Section 145.8821 — Accountability.
Section 145.883 — Definitions.
Section 145.892 — Definitions.
Section 145.893 — Nutritional Supplement Program.
Section 145.894 — State Commissioner Of Health; Duties, Responsibilities.
Section 145.895 — Department Of Human Services.
Section 145.896 — Program Not A Substitute Or Replacement.
Section 145.897 — Food Benefits.
Section 145.898 — Sudden Infant Death.
Section 145.899 — Wic Food Benefits For Organics.
Section 145.901 — Maternal Death Studies.
Section 145.902 — Give Life A Chance; Safe Place For Newborns Duties; Immunity.
Section 145.905 — Location For Breastfeeding.
Section 145.906 — Postpartum Depression Education And Information.
Section 145.907 — Maternal Depression; Definition.
Section 145.924 — Aids Prevention Grants.
Section 145.925 — Family Planning Grants.
Section 145.9255 — Minnesota Education Now And Babies Later; Health.
Section 145.9261 — Abstinence Education Grant Program.
Section 145.9265 — Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Effects; Drug-exposed Infant.
Section 145.9266 — Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Campaign And Education.
Section 145.9268 — Community Clinic Grants.
Section 145.9269 — Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Section 145.928 — Eliminating Health Disparities.
Section 145.929 — Health Care Grants For The Uninsured.
Section 145.93 — Minnesota Poison Information Centers; Establishment.
Section 145.94 — Exposure To Hazardous Substance.
Section 145.945 — Certain Sales Of Cleaning Products Prohibited.
Section 145.951 — Implementation Plan; Statewide Program For Families.
Section 145.952 — Definitions.
Section 145.953 — Program Structure.
Section 145.954 — Standards For Program.
Section 145.955 — Duties Of Local Organization.
Section 145.956 — Training And Recruitment Of Volunteers.
Section 145.957 — Eligibility.
Section 145.958 — Youth Violence Prevention.