Words Matter: A Guide to Inclusive Language for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthOctober 2024Language shapes our world, and the words we choose can build bridges or barriers. That’s why, across fields and industries, experts agree: Words matter. Words carry...
A story from the Young Parents StoriesBella (she/they) is a 22-year-old trans mother who gives their all to their family. Their story to find a safe, stable housing for their partner and two children depicts how the broken housing system forces young families...
A storytelling project aimed at portraying the realities of young parents while navigating the foster care system.Why It Matters Stories are transformative and have the power to bring about change. Stories provide a practical and sustainable structure for sharing...
National Observances, Awareness Campaigns, and Holidays CalendarJanuary 2024National health observances and awareness campaigns are great opportunities to efficiently use and adapt existing content in support of the goal of promoting adolescent sexual health and...
#SexEdForAll Month Tool KitApril 2024Sex Ed For All Month is coordinated by the Sex Education Collaborative—representing 26 national, regional, and state-based organizations with extensive experience training educators to deliver school-based sex education—in...
Why Sex Ed For All?October 2021Have you heard that May is Sex Ed For All Month? Yes, no, maybe? Or yes, but you don’t quite get it? It’s okay…that’s actually what this session is all about. Since 2019, May has been recognized as Sex Ed For All Month. This initiative...
ReSHAPINGAdoption Competency in a Post-Roe v. Wade Reality Journal of Social Work Education, July 2022 Elisa E. Madden, Monica Faulkner, Donna M. Aguiniga Suggested Citation Madden, E., Faulkner, M. & Aguiniga, D.M. (2022) Adoption Competency in a Post–Roe v. Wade...
Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth & Learning Walks2014The Native Youth Project (NYP) was a national learning collaborative facilitated by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), Healthy Teen Network, and the...
Challenging and Expanding Your Understanding and Practice of Inclusivity & How You Can Put Knowledge into Action2021During the first session of #HealthyTeen21, Dr. Tanya Bass, Stuart Getty, and Vanessa Geffrard will encourage you to widen the lens you use to...
True You Maryland Brand BookOctober 2021True You Maryland is an affirming, positive brand about finding, expressing, and celebrating your true self in the rural Maryland landscape. True You Maryland is a brand built by youth in rural Maryland for youth in rural...
Youth Advisory Board Recruitment KitOctober 2021Want to spread the word about your Youth Advisory Board? We've prepared this recruitment kit to make it easy to share. We're done our best to make this kit useful for all our True You Maryland partners, but you may need...
Pulse, an App in Action: Preliminary Usage Results from a Randomized Control Trial2019Pulse is currently being tested via a two-armed randomized controlled trial with 1,500 young women. In 2019, we joined our project partners, Child Trends, at the #HealthyTeen19...
Are Title IX and Maryland Law Protecting Expectant and Parenting Young People?December 2020Almost 50 years later after Title IX was enacted, young people who are expectant and parenting are still experiencing outright sex-based discrimination and are stigmatized so...
What's Law Got to Do with It? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020Although you don’t need to be a legal expert to teach sex education, it helps to be up to date on federal and state laws that relate to topics that often come up, like sexting, statutory rape, access to...
HPV: By the Numbers (for parents)2019HPV...maybe you’ve heard about the kinds of cancers it causes, the 30,000+ people it affects every year, or that it’s sexually transmitted (through all types of sex), but you still aren’t sure about vaccinating your child, and you...
Selling Sexual Health: Comparing Two Pilot Recruitment Internet Ad Campaigns for Latinx Individuals2019Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter offer the opportunity to reach large numbers of youth. However, program managers' success in...
Thriving at the Intersection: Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Sexual Health Education to Achieve Positive Outcomes for YouthAmerican Journal of Sexuality Education, Volume 13, 2018, Issue 3 Genevieve Martínez-García, Lisette Torres, Carolyn Camacho, Hope...
Building Support for Sex Ed in Schools: Communications & Messaging Strategies2018What does (and doesn’t) motivate people to listen to your messages about the value of sex education? In this mini-course, practice building effective messages by working through...
Know Your Audience2017This tip sheet gives ways to find common ground with stakeholders and elected officials. The goal is to have better communication and educate others on your cause. It's important to know your audience, so you can... Identify common ground with...
Navigating the Politics of Public Health: Finding Common Ground in Support of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthPresentation Available Online & In-PersonThis four-part webinar series is a companion piece to the issue brief, Finding Common Ground: An...
Finding Common Ground: An Overview on Key Conservative Principles to Support Shared Goals for Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health2017With a focus on shared goals, we can work together to improve outcomes for all young people. This issue brief is a tool for our...
Likes, Tweets, & Hashtags: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Study Recruitment2017Social media and internet advertising continue to prove promising frontiers for the recruitment and engagement of participants for programs, studies, and campaigns. While...
Celebrating Young Parents: How New Mexico and California Established a Day of Recognition2017Over the past several years, two states—New Mexico and California—have been working to affirm the value of young families and celebrate the ways they contribute to our...
Youth 360° In Action: Presentation2017How and where we live, learn, and play matters. We cannot expect to significantly impact health outcomes and address health disparities without considering these critical factors, or social determinants of health, that shape our...
Show Me the Money: Overview of the Guide to Developing a Winning Grant Proposal2015Healthy Teen Network has a record of success in securing grants and cooperative agreements, especially in the topical area of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and the service...
Show Me the Money: Guide to Developing a Winning Grant ProposalGuide & Webinar, 2015Are you gearing up to write a proposal? Get a headstart with Show Me the Money, a guide to walk you through how to put together a winning proposal. We designed this resource...
The Art of Verbal Storytelling 2015 This tip sheet illustrates how a good story flows naturally with a well-developed plot that takes the listener through an image-filled journey that leaves the listener with something to think about or remember; a call to action, an...
Youth 360°: How & Where Youth Live, Learn, & Play Matters2014We have to consider the critical factors, or social determinants of health, that shape us. Youth 360° is about the intersection of the social determinants of health and social-ecological theory: each...
ReSHAPINGHealth Insurance Coverage and Use of Family Planning Services among Current and Former Foster Youth: Implications of the Health Care Reform Law Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2013 Amy Dworsky, Kym Ahrens, Mark Courtney Suggested Citation Dworsky,...
An American Frame: Teen Pregnancy and Parenting 2010 We teamed up with the FrameWorks Institute to take a look at how the media, as well as advocates, talk about (aka, framing or messaging) young people who are pregnant or parenting. RelatedDiscover the magic of the...
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