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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The Complete Thrivopolis
Thrivopolis A game and discussion where players navigate a social safety net in the not-so-distant future Join the fun! Thrivology News About Us Ask Us Stay Inspired In the wake of the Great Unraveling in the not-so-distant future, a brave … 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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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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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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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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Power Through Choices Curriculum
Power Through Choices: My Life, My Choices (5th Edition) 2023 Power Through Choices: My Life, My Choices (5th Edition) is a 10-session, evidence-based prevention curriculum specifically designed for adolescents ages 13–18 in systems of care. Power Through Choices was the … Read More
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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: 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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Storms and blossoms: Foster care system alumni parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic
ReSHAPING Storms and blossoms: Foster care system alumni parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic University of Maryland, College Park, May 2021 Elizabeth Aparicio, Rhoda Smith, Michelle Jasczyński, Amara Channell Doig, Marissa Ventola, Svetlana Shpiegel, Alexander Sanchez, Genevieve Martínez-García Suggested Citation Martinez-Garcia, G., Sanchez, A., … Read More
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COVID Love* Stories
Featured Project COVID Love* Stories hilarious, devastating, awkward, frustrating, and fun moments of love and intimacy during a global pandemic What It Is COVID Love* Stories is our nationwide campaign that gathers and shares young people’s stories of love and intimacy during the global pandemic. We created this campaign to support … Read More
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Protected: Teaching Inclusive Sex Ed: A Focus on LGBTQIA+ Youth
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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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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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Implementation Evaluation of Pulse
Implementation Evaluation of Pulse: Findings from a Rigorous Evaluation of New or Innovative Approaches to Prevent Teen Pregnancy July 2021 This implementation report provides details on the recruitment procedures and implementation findings of an evaluation of Pulse, a web–based mobile health … Read More
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Pulse, an App in Action
Pulse, an App in Action: Preliminary Usage Results from a Randomized Control Trial 2019 Pulse 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 … Read More
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HPV: Answering the FAQs You Hear from Young People
Tip Sheet HPV Answering the FAQs You Hear from Young People Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common STI in the United States but perhaps one of the most misunderstood. To prepare you to talk with young people about HPV, … Read More
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Protected: Teen Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Maryland
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Protected: Keeping It Real and Professional Part 2: Answering Challenging Questions
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Protected: Keeping It Real and Professional Part 1: The Wondrous Landscape of Teaching Sex Ed
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Case Studies: What Does It Take to Implement Quality Sexual Health Education?
Case Studies: What Does It Take to Implement Quality Sexual Health Education? May 2018 n 2013, the Division of Adolescent School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC DASH) awarded 17 Local Education Agencies (LEA) funding to … Read More
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Addressing Trafficking in Schools
Addressing Trafficking in Schools December 2019 Through Healthy Teen Network’s partnership with the University of Maryland School of Social Work’s Prevention of Adolescent Risk Initiative, this elearning unit is available to learn about sex and labor trafficking. This unit is focused on specifics … Read More