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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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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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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Protected: More Than Pronouns: Creating Affirming Spaces During Positive Prevention Plus
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Protected: Teaching Inclusive Sex Ed: A Focus on LGBTQIA+ Youth
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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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Sex Education Collaborative Training Hub
Sex Education Collaborative Training Hub As a member of the Sex Education Collaborative (SEC), Healthy Teen Network is pleased to share the Sex Education Training Hub, an online searchable tool offering a wide variety of professional development offerings for sex educators … Read More
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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
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Are Title IX and Maryland Law Really Protecting Expectant and Parenting Young People?
Are Title IX and Maryland Law Protecting Expectant and Parenting Young People? December 2020 Almost 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 … Read More
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Everyone Wins!
Everyone Wins!: Co-Parenting Can Work for All 2020 As a partner on Map 2 Success, a project of the Baltimore City Health Department and Maryland Department of Health, Healthy Teen Network developed this poster, as a complement to Protect Your … Read More
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You’re Excused!
You’re Excused! 2020 In the United States, students who are pregnant or parenting have rights, protected under Title IX and Maryland law. As a partner on Map 2 Success, a project of the Baltimore City Health Department and Maryland Department … Read More
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Evidence-Based Programs & Curricula
Evidence-Based Programs & Curricula Presentations, Trainings, Training-of-Facilitators, Trainings-of-Trainers, & Technical Assistance We can help you build-buy in for evidence-based programs, select the program that fits your needs, prepare your health educators to deliver the program…and everything else along the way … Read More
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Power Through Choices: Training-of-Facilitators
Power Through Choices Training-of-Facilitators Available Online & In-Person Ready to implement the only proven effective curriculum designed for and with youth involved in systems of care? We’ll train your facilitators to implement the evidence-based program, Power Through Choices, with young … Read More
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Power Through Choices Training-of-Trainers
Power Through Choices Training-of-Trainers Available In-Person (Online, Coming Soon!) Do you have a team of trainers experienced at building the capacity of adult professionals? A Training-of-Trainers, or a TOT, prepares experienced trainers to conduct a Training-of-Facilitators (TOF) on Power Through … Read More
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What Works? Sex Ed for Youth in Systems of Care
What Works? Sexual Health Education for Youth Involved in Systems of Care Presentation Available Online & In-Person What does it take to provide high-quality sexual health education to youth involved in systems of care? In this interactive workshop, participants learn … Read More
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Teaching Strategies for Sex Education
Teaching Strategies for Sex Education Training Available Online & In-Person Why do we need to use a variety of teaching strategies when teaching sex education? Which ones work best, and why? What can go wrong, and what can we do … Read More
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Why All-Gender Classrooms Work
Why All-Gender Classrooms Work U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Discussing gender in the classroom can be a difficult task for some teachers and staff. Challenging situations can come up, like students having different perspectives on the subject matter or … Read More
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When Sex Education Meets Mandatory Reporting
When Sex Education Meets Mandatory Reporting U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 As a teacher, you know that if you suspect that a student has been abused, or a student tells you about a situation that sounds like abuse, you … Read More
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When Is the Right Time to Engage in Sexual Activity?
When Is the Right Time to Engage in Sexual Activity? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 In the classroom, students may ask questions like, “How do I know when it is the right time to have sex?” or “How do … Read More
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What’s Law Got to Do with It?
What’s Law Got to Do with It? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Although 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 … Read More
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What Is Dual Protection & Why Is It Important?
What Is Dual Protection & Why Is It Important? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Although birth rates among young people have declined over the years, STI rates are soaring. According to the CDC, adolescents ages 15-24 account for nearly … Read More
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Talking to Partners about STI Status: Building Skills & Confidence in Youth
Talking to Partners about STI Status: Building Skills & Confidence in Youth U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Having conversations about sex with a partner can be difficult, but talking to partners about STI status can feel particularly tricky, especially … Read More
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Talking about Values in Sexuality Education
Talking about Values in Sexuality Education U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 A lot of us have been told that we should stay away from any discussions about values during sex education. But the truth is that high-quality sex education … Read More
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Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Is Your Knowledge Up to Date?
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Is Your Knowledge Up to Date? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 When you teach about STIs, your students will usually have lots of questions, and it can be hard to keep up with evolving knowledge … Read More
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Sex Education and Abusive Relationships: What You Need to Know
Sex Education and Abusive Relationships: What You Need to Know U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 When you teach sex education (and maybe even when you teach other topics), the subject of abuse within relationships is likely to come up. … Read More
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Regrouping, Refocusing, and Reengaging Your Students
Regrouping, Refocusing, and Reengaging Your Students U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 We get it! Managing a classroom of middle and high school students can present its challenges, especially when the topic is sex education. Students are bound to have … Read More
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Positively Rock Answering Questions!
Positively Rock Answering Questions! U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 This U Choose to Know resource gives you tips on how to positively answer questions that students might have and gives some practice questions to review. Get It Now Contributing … Read More
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Making Role-Plays Work for You and Your Students
Making Role-Plays Work for You and Your Students U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Some teachers say that role-plays are one of the hardest activities to manage during sex education. Students can feel awkward or get out of hand, and … Read More
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Eliminating Stigma from STIs and Testing
Eliminating Stigma from STIs and Testing U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 You probably already know how important it is to talk to your students about sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and ways to prevent them, and the data helps make … Read More
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Does Humor Belong in Sex Education?
Does Humor Belong in Sex Education? U Choose to Know Digest, 2019 Humor and laughter are probably going to happen in your classroom during sex education whether you plan for it or not. While teaching about sexuality is serious business, … Read More
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Connecting With Youth Who Are LGBTQ+
Connecting with Youth Who Are LGBTQ+ U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 Gender and Sexuality Alliances or Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) have been around since the 1980s providing youth who identify as LGBTQ+ and their allies a safe space to support … Read More
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Are You a Trauma-Informed Sex Educator?
Are You a Trauma-Informed Sex Educator? U Choose to Know Digest, 2020 As a teacher, you undoubtedly strive to be inclusive of all your students, including those who have experienced trauma. You are also probably aware that sex education requires … Read More