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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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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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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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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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Communication is Key: Sharing STI Test Results with Your Partner

Communication Is Key: Sharing STI Test Results with Your Partner 2022 HIV and STI testing should be a part of your routine—and, if you have a partner or partners, theirs too—so let’s talk about it! Having a Conversation about Getting … Read More

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

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Protected: Delivering Contraceptive Lessons

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Communication is Key: Having a Conversation About Getting Tested for STIs with Your Partner

Communication Is Key: Having a Conversation about Getting Tested for STIs with Your Partner 2022 HIV and STI testing should be a part of your routine—and, if you have a partner or partners, theirs too—so let’s talk about it! Having … Read More

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

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

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Pulse

Featured Project Pulse Pulse puts the power of sexual health information, in English and Spanish, in the hands of millions of young women. What It Is Pulse, a web-based mobile health (mHealth) app, uses interactive, multimedia features to enhance engagement … Read More

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Protected: Keeping It Real and Professional Part 1: The Wondrous Landscape of Teaching Sex Ed

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Wingman

Wingman Suggestive Keyboard Coming Soon! Wingman Suggestive Keyboard is an alternative keyboard for your phone that uses machine learning to help you tackle sexual conversations with ease. The user sets their texting intensity, and Wingman will suggest words aligned with that … Read More

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U Choose

Featured Project U Choose We help you talk about the hard stuff. Where We Started Getting school and community partners to work together is so important for improving sexual health education and services. In any given community, there are often … 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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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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How to Discuss Sex and Social Media

How to Discuss Sex and Social Media U Choose to Know Digest, 2018 We know that youth spend a lot of time online engaging with social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. Although exposure to sex-related content … 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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Best Practices in Sexuality Education

Best Practices in Sexuality Education U Choose to Know Digest, 2018 Check out this U Choose to Know tip sheet for some best practices for teaching sex education and some resources that may help you if you get stuck on … Read More

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Send Shame Walking! Applying a Sex Positive Lens to Health Class Facilitation

Send Shame Walking! Applying a Sex Positive Lens to Health Class Facilitation U Choose to Know Digest, 2018 Sex positivity is the idea that all sex (as long as it’s healthy and consensual) is a good and normal thing. Sex … Read More

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