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The Title V Competitive SRAE Program aims to support projects focusing on sexual risk avoidance education, emphasizing the importance of abstaining from non-marital sexual activity. The program guides the youth towards optimal health behaviors to improve their future health, psychological well-being, and economic success. Applicants must use medically accurate information, adopt an evidence-based approach, and teach about self-regulation, successful poverty prevention sequences, building healthy relationships, goal setting, and resistance to sexual coercion and youth risk behaviors. The legislation mandates a clear focus on avoiding non-marital sexual activity as a primary message to the youth.