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Numbers to Narratives

Numbers to Narratives Using data to uplift stories, uncover needs, and build community readiness for healing-centered sex ed Get started Thrivology News About Us Ask Us Stay Inspired Making the case When it comes to advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive … Read More

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Knowledge of and access to contraceptive information and services among teenagers with child welfare involvement: A descriptive study across the transition to high school

ReSHAPING Knowledge of and access to contraceptive information and services among teenagers with child welfare involvement: A descriptive study across the transition to high school Children and Youth Services Review, 2024 Katie Massey Combs, Sarah J. Racz, Heather Taussig Suggested … Read More

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Working in the Aftermath: How Texas Social Services Providers Are Navigating Services Post Roe

ReSHAPING Working in the Aftermath: How Texas Social Services Providers Are Navigating Services Post Roe 2024 Katie Massey Combs, Kaitlyn Doerge, Anna Wasim, Sharon Hoefer Conclusions Research documenting the impact of abortion access has focused on abortion providers and to … Read More

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Words Matter: A Guide to Inclusive Language for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Words Matter: A Guide to Inclusive Language for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health October 2024 Language 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 … Read More

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True You Maryland Curricula Recruitment Templates

True You Maryland Curricula Recruitment Templates August 2024 Canva templates for recruitment flyers and social media posts promoting two True You Maryland curricula: Plan A and 17 Days. Plan A Flyer Template Post Template 17 Days Flyer Template Post Template … Read More

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Sexual Health Facilitators’ Guide to Responding to Youth’s Questions About Sex

Sexual Health Facilitators’ Guide to Responding to Youth’s Questions About Sex 2023 Facilitators of sexual health education programs may face a dilemma when they aren’t sure about how to respond to a youth’s question. This may be because they don’t … Read More

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El Camino: A Positive Youth Development-Focused Sexual Health Education Program

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Serenity Kit

Serenity Kit A thoughtfully curated kit for youth-supporting professionals to promote self-care, healing, and a sense of safety Get yours Thrivology News About Us Ask Us Stay Inspired An experience for the senses Within every Serenity Kit is an experience … Read More

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Serenity Collection

Serenity Collection Helping youth-supporting professionals create the time and space for self-care and healing Explore Thrivology News About Us Ask Us Stay Inspired Experience the Serenity Collection As youth-supporting professionals, you dedicate a lot of time and energy caring for … Read More

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Serenity Room

Serenity Room a research-backed, sensory experience for you to explore, relax, and find your inner serenity Welcome Guide Thrivology News About Us Ask Us Stay Inspired Nurture your well-being We invite you to experience the Serenity Room at the Teen … Read More

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Communicating About Adolescent Sexual Health: Messaging That Moves

Communicating About Adolescent Sexual Health: Messaging That Moves 2017 As an expert in efforts to improve students’ sexual health, you see your work in a different light than many of the people whose support you need to sustain your 1308 … Read More

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program’s Adolescent Sexual Health Innovation Hubs Showcase

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program’s Adolescent Sexual Health Innovation Hubs Showcase April 2024 We’re thrilled to unveil Healthy Teen Network’s Innovation Incubator Hub, In/Tend—funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs.  We are one of six organizations … Read More

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Internal & External Condom Steps

Internal & External Condom Steps August 2024 Condom demonstrations are important because it’s better for young people to see (and then practice!) applying a condom before they need to use it. Review condom use steps for internal and external condoms, … Read More

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Sex Ed 101 for Educators

Sex Ed 101 for Educators 2024 *Updated from The Teacher’s Guide to Sex Ed (2018) Whether you’re a teacher, health educator, sex educator, peer educator, program facilitator, or any other kind of youth-supporting professional providing sex ed programming for young … Read More

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Sexual Identity Glossary

Sexual Identity Glossary 2024 This handout identifies terms related to gender and sexual identity. Sexual identity is typically a combination of someone’s: sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior. When packaged together, we get a sense of our … Read More

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Strategies to Develop an LGBTQIA+-Inclusive Adolescent Sexual Health Program Evaluation

Strategies to Develop an LGBTQIA+-Inclusive Adolescent Sexual Health Program Evaluation March 2024 Adolescent sexual health interventions are increasingly incorporating content that is inclusive of LGBTQIA+ youth (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and other marginalized sexualities and genders). Evaluations of … Read More

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2023 Annual Report

2023 AnnualReport Taking Care & Taking Action From Our President & CEO Janet Max, MPH, CHES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKhErmZa7Y In the 2023 fiscal year (October 2022 through September 2023), we added new staff to our team, launched our research to practice center, … Read More

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Merck Return to Care

Featured Project Merck Return to Care The Healthy Teen Oracle card deck centers around 16 unique, health-related Oracle cards with properties such as uncertainty, ritual, and encouragement. Where We Started One of the many ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has … Read More

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Protected: From Mid to Stellar: Youth-Friendly Services in Your Health Clinic

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Updated Findings from the HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review: October 2016-May 2022

Updated Findings from the HHS Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review: October 2016 Through June 2022 June 2023 This brief summarizes the findings from a recent update to an ongoing systematic review of research on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection … Read More

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Pulse: A Web-Based, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Mobile App Intervention

Pulse: A Web-Based, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Mobile App Intervention October 2021 The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) funded the development and rigorous evaluation of the Pulse program to determine if it is an effective approach for improving contraceptive knowledge and … Read More

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Short-Term Impacts of Pulse: An App-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Black and Latinx Women

Short-Term Impacts of Pulse: An App-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Black and Latinx Women Jennifer Manlove, PhD; Eizabeth Cook, MSPH; Brooke Whitfield; Makedah Johnson; Genevieve Martínez-García, PhD; and Milagros Garrido, MS November 2019 Purpose Black and Latinx women aged … Read More

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Lessons Learned from Replicating a Randomized Control Trial Evaluation of an App-Based Sexual Health Program

Lessons Learned from Replicating a Randomized Control Trial Evaluation of an App-Based Sexual Health Program Jennifer Manlove, PhD; Brooke Whitfield; Jane Finocharo; and Elizabeth Cook, MSPH International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health March 2021 Purpose This study presents … Read More

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Protected: Delivering Contraceptive Lessons

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Protected: More Than Pronouns: Creating Affirming Spaces During Positive Prevention Plus

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Young Parents Stories – Lucero & Carmen

Lucero and Carmen’s Story A story from the Young Parents Stories Lucero (she/her) and Carmen (she/her) have been there for each other since they were born. Having been in juvenile justice and the foster care system, the twin sisters have … Read More

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Group Agreements for Good Colleagues

Group Agreements for Good Colleagues 2021 This is a working document that was crafted by the Healthy Teen Network staff and was inspired by our former Board Chair Nadine Finigan-Carr in the midst of the first year of the COVID-19 … Read More

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Young Parents Stories – Bella

Bella’s Story A story from the Young Parents Stories I had been a nurse for many years. I’d thought I’d seen all of the struggles people could go through. Bella’s story was something new. As a child, Bella had some … Read More

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National Observances, Awareness Campaigns, and Holidays Calendar

National Observances, Awareness Campaigns, and Holidays Calendar January 2024 National 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 well-being. This Google calendar … Read More

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#SexEdForAll Tool Kit

#SexEdForAll Month Tool Kit April 2024 Sex 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 collaboration with the federal Sex Education … Read More

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2022 Annual Report

2022 AnnualReport Daring to Dream From Our President & CEO Janet Max, MPH, CHES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIq_cF67UHQ We know that these last few years haven’t been easy. We’ve collectively adapted to pandemic life, shifting our work to adapt to remote work, and … Read More

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Why Sex Ed For All?

Why Sex Ed For All? October 2021 Have 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, … Read More

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2021 Annual Report

2021 AnnualReport Collaboration in times of crisis From Our President & CEO Janet Max, MPH, CHES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TTrc-O8-40 Our 2021 annual report remembers and celebrates our accomplishments, not the least of which is how we’ve been able to collaborate and work … Read More

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Many Ways of Being

Featured Project Many Ways of Being Many Ways of Being is an inclusive, youth-centered curriculum focused on gender equity, healthy relationships, and safer sex practices. Where We Started Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice (formerly known as Promundo-US), in … Read More

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Real Talk Evaluation

Featured Project Real Talk Evaluation Real Talk modernizes sex education by capitalizing on youths’ desire to engage in peer sharing. Where We Started Real Talk modernizes sex education by capitalizing on youths’ desire to engage in peer sharing. Real Talk was … Read More

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DC Next!

Featured Project DC Next! Centering young people as valued experts in identifying challenges to create innovative solutions. What It Is DC NEXT! is a collective impact innovation network of young parents, community providers, educational institutions, healthcare agencies, government partners, and … Read More

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Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth

Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth & Learning Walks 2014 The Native Youth Project (NYP) was a national learning collaborative facilitated by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), Healthy Teen Network, and the Centers … Read More

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Protected: Sexting: The New Dinner Conversation

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Protected: Protecting Youth Access to Health Care

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Protected: Demystifying Sexual Taboos: Education, Science, and Sex-Positive Christianity

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Challenging and Expanding Your Understanding and Practice of Inclusivity

Challenging and Expanding Your Understanding and Practice of Inclusivity & How You Can Put Knowledge into Action 2021 During the first session of #HealthyTeen21, Dr. Tanya Bass, Stuart Getty, and Vanessa Geffrard will encourage you to widen the lens you … Read More

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Protected: Consent and Sexting: An Essential Conversation with Young People

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2020 Annual Report

2020 AnnualReport Connecting Together From Afar From Our President & CEO Janet Max, MPH, CHES https://youtu.be/4wVQJr7s3y0 Our 2020 annual report remembers and celebrates our accomplishments, not the least of which is how we’ve been able to adapt our services and … Read More

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Protected: Teaching Inclusive Sex Ed: A Focus on LGBTQIA+ Youth

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Protected: Adolescent Health Equity

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True You Maryland Brand Book

True You Maryland Brand Book October 2021 True 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 … Read More

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True You Maryland Youth Advisory Board Recruitment Kit

Youth Advisory Board Recruitment Kit October 2021 Want 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 … Read More

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Protected: Adolescent Sexual Health Equity During COVID-19

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Are You Ready to ROCK?

Are You Ready to ROCK? 4 Ways to Revive Your Sex Ed Sex Education Collaborative As a member of the Sex Education Collaborative (SEC), Healthy Teen Network is pleased to share expert advice from LeKara Simmons, one of the Sex … Read More

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True You Maryland

Featured Project True You Maryland Bringing together partners in six rural Maryland counties to advance the sexual health and well-being of youth here at home. Where We Started Young people in rural counties experience a range of health disparities. That’s … Read More

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