DECEMBER 22, 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to look back at what you found most useful from Healthy Teen Network. From product launches to social media campaigns to another successful conference, join us as we flashback on your (and our) favorites from 2025.
Resources you loved the most
This year, you reached for resources that prioritize care—whether that’s a kit of sensory items, a deck of grounding exercise cards, or a guide for creating moments of self-care during the workday. You also focused on deepening your knowledge of sex ed, making sure it’s inclusive and affirming for all young people.
- Numbers to Narratives – This collection of guides and workshop designs helps you use data to build community readiness for sex ed.
- Grounding Exercises – Unwind, destress, and de-stimulate with these simple grounding exercises—flip through the virtual cards or print your own deck!
- Sex Ed 101 for Educators – This elearning covers the basics of teaching sex ed with short, practical lessons.
- Serenity Kit – Take a moment for self-care with this curated kit designed for youth-supporting professionals to promote their own healing.
- Words Matter – This guide shares practical, real-world strategies for using inclusive and affirming language in adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
- Thrivopolis – Play as a group of youth-supporting professionals working to gather resources and navigate obstacles in this board game.
- Serenity Moments – Incorporate self-care into the workday with these ready-to-go activities.
- Healthy Teen Oracle Deck – This card deck blends education and mysticism, helping young people pick health-related topics to discuss with health professionals or other trusted adults.
- #SexEdForAll Tool Kit – This tool kit is packed with graphics, talking points, and other resources to promote Sex Ed For All Month.
- Sexual & Reproductive Justice in Clinic Settings – This elearning defines sexual and reproductive justice and explores how it applies to every aspect of clinic work.
Half of your top resources this year were from Thrivology, and you had lots of wonderful things to say about the 13 new resources and tools released this year:
The news you needed this year
You’re always seeking out new information to make sure you’re providing the best sex ed for young people. Here’s what you were reading this year:
- How to Masturbate: Everything You Need to Know About Self Pleasure – Two staff members share tips for self pleasure.
- All Young People Need and Deserve Sex Education – Use these talking points to fight for the sex education that all young people deserve.
- Forget Gen Alpha…This is Gen Sigma – The pandemic significantly changed the experiences of today’s teens and tweens, in ways we don’t yet understand.
- You Just Found Out Your Teen Is Having Sex. Now What? – Staff members share the importance of comprehensive sex ed and how to be an askable adult.
- Sex Ed? On TikTok? – These seven TikTok creators are doing the work to destigmatize sexuality for young people across the world.
- 5 Queer Sex Ed Resources By and For Young People – See how queer young people are taking the lead to create sex ed resources that center their experiences.
- Helping Pregnant and Parenting Teens Find Housing – Find actionable support for pregnant and parenting youth who need housing options.
- Why Are Youth Watching Porn and What Are They Learning From It? – Explore the research that seeks to understand what young people are taking away from porn.
- It’s Bananas: Why The Sexual Exposure Chart Belongs in the Bin – It’s a commonly used visual that has long haunted how we think about intimacy and connection.
- Parents and Youth Agree on Sex Ed for All – It’s true—the research shows that most parents and young people support sex ed in schools.
Showing up on social
Among your favorite social media posts this year was a True You Maryland campaign on how to talk about STI testing. Encouraging young people to “ask it like you,” this Instagram series proves that talking about testing doesn’t have to be weird.
You connected at #HealthyTeen25
Despite funding challenges, over 300 of you still found your way to Atlanta this year for #HealthyTeen25! Through sessions, roundtables, affinity groups, and networking events, you connected and learned, supporting each other even when the work gets tough.
Here’s what you had to say about #HealthyTeen25:
Here’s to 2026
Whether you perused a blog post, liked a social media post, shared a new resource, or joined us at #HealthyTeen25, thank you for your support throughout 2025. Moving into 2026 and beyond, we look forward to continuing to partner with you to create a world where every young person has the right to be who they are and love who they love.
PHOTO BY: ALONES
