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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What’s Real?
What’s Real? 2023 For parents and caregivers, the safety of our children remains a priority. Competing information about immunizations, especially online, makes it harder for us to make decisions. Healthcare providers can help answer our questions, and routine immunizations can … Read More
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Vaccinated Children, Stronger Communities
Vaccinated Children, Stronger Communities 2023 When our children are up to date with their immunizations, other children and families are protected too. Let’s build stronger communities by ensuring that our children are vaccinated. Visit the Baltimore City Health Department’s Immunization … Read More
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Navigating Health Misinformation in the Digital Age
Navigating Health Misinformation in the Digital Age 2023 We know that not everything on the Internet should be trusted. But how do we determine if digital content is credible? Learn a few tips on how to verify health information online … Read More
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Sexting: The New Dinner Conversation
Sexting: The New Dinner Conversation May 2022 Have you ever wondered how to bring up the subject of sexting with young people in your lives? What happens if porn comes up in dinnertime conversations or there’s a sex scene on … Read More
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Consent and Sexting: An Essential Conversation with Young People
Consent and Sexting: An Essential Conversation with Young People January 2022 Join Maddy LaCure, MPA and Rebecca Berkowitz, Esq. from the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault to learn how to engage students in conversations about consent and sexting. You will learn about … Read More
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“The internet is not private”: The role of social media in sexual health among youth in foster care
ReSHAPING “The internet is not private”: The role of social media in sexual health among youth in foster care Journal of Adolescence, June 2020 Suggested CitationKachingwe, O. N., Salerno, J. P., Boekeloo, B. O., Fish, J. N., Geddings-Hayes, M., Aden, … 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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Selling Sexual Health
Selling Sexual Health: Comparing Two Pilot Recruitment Internet Ad Campaigns for Latinx Individuals 2019 Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter offer the opportunity to reach large numbers of youth. However, program managers’ success in effectively recruiting youth is mixed. … Read More
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Recruiting? Facebook can help
Hidden in Plain Sight: Minor Sex Trafficking in Maryland 2018 Here, we use and infographic show lessons learned from using social media channels to recruit participants into research studies and programs. This resource was originally designed for our poster presentation … Read More
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Growing Up LGBTQ+ Online
Growing Up LGBTQ+ Online 2017 When approaching topics such as adolescent sexuality, technology, and social media, it is sometimes tempting for adults, even sexuality educators, to focus solely on the Internet Age’s harmful and problematic byproducts for adolescent development and … Read More
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Likes, Tweets, and Hashtags: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Recruitment
Likes, Tweets, & Hashtags: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Study Recruitment 2017 Social media and internet advertising continue to prove promising frontiers for the recruitment and engagement of participants for programs, studies, and campaigns. While Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, … Read More