ReSHAPING
ReSHAPING
Being an adolescent is complicated enough. What if you are in foster care? Sexually active? Pregnant? A parent? The ReSHAPING network of scholars is finding out more and improving these experiences.
Empowering Young People with the Contraceptive Knowledge They Need: A Virtual Coffee Chat
March 13, 2025 3:00 PM ET
Prevention Science Program, Senior Research Associate Institute of Behavioral Science | University of Colorado Boulder
Young people involved with the child welfare system are resilient, but they need the right tools and support to thrive. We can all contribute to equipping them with the resources they need to make informed choices about their health and futures.
Want to talk more about this? Join us for a free virtual coffee chat on March 13, 2025, at 3 PM ET. Katie Massey Combs, PhD, will share key findings and facilitate an informal discussion on knowledge of and access to contraceptive information and services among young people involved in the child welfare system. Register now to talk about implications for youth-supporting professionals.
Combs and fellow researchers, Sarah J. Racz and Heather Taussig, set out to better understand the contraceptive information and services that young people involved in the child welfare system receive. Through interviews with 245 young people involved in the welfare system before and after their transition to high school, this new study explores whether and when this population receives contraceptive education and knows how to access services.
This research reported was supported by National Institutes for Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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ReSHAPING (Research on Sexual Health and Adolescent Parenting in Out-of-Home Environments Group) is an international network of scholars in social work, public health, public policy, and psychology dedicated to collaborative research on understanding needs and improving outcomes related to sexual health and parenting for youth who are homeless, trafficked, or in out-of-home environments, whether in child welfare, juvenile justice, or other systems.
Through this website and social media, we disseminate our individual and joint work. We also provide information about trainings, other research and reports for those interested in this topic. Our hope is to provide a repository that is useful to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Our Members
Elizabeth Aparicio
University of Maryland, College Park
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
University of Oklahoma, Tulsa
College of Charleston
Social Work, University of Toronto
Children’s Data Network, University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago
University of Colorado Boulder
Florida State University
College of Social Work
Montclair State University
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy
Concordia University – Chicago