Serving Everyone: Providing Sexual & Reproductive Health Services to LGBTQ+ Youth 2018 With this module, learn how sexual and reproductive health providers can better treat LGBTQIA+ students with respect. You can meet two students that identify as LGBTQIA+ and learn … Read More
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Parenting in the Digital Age
Parenting in the Digital Age September 2024 As parents and caregivers, you want to be a source of help and support for your teens. We know your top priority is keeping your kids safe and providing a healthy environment where … Read More
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Providers in the Digital Age
Providers in the Digital Age September 2024 Now more than ever, young people have access to a myriad of health resources online—and not all of them are trustworthy. How can healthcare professionals ensure that young people are using the most … 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 Identity Glossary
Sexual Identity Glossary 2024 This handout identifies terms related to gender and sexual identity. Sexual identity is typically a combination of someone’s: sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior. When packaged together, we get a sense of our … 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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From Mid to Stellar: Youth-Friendly Services in Your Health Clinic
From Mid to Stellar: Youth-Friendly Services in Your Health Clinic June 2023 Join Adolescent Health Initiative and True You Maryland, a program of the Maryland Department of Health, to discover ways you and your clinic can go from “mid” to … Read More
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Delivering Contraceptive Lessons
Delivering Contraceptive Lessons April 2023 Part 1: Tossing Out the BinaryWe know it can feel tricky (at first) to discuss avoiding pregnancy in a way that includes everyone and every gender in the room. However, research shows that inclusive classrooms … Read More
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More Than Pronouns: Creating Affirming Spaces During Positive Prevention Plus
More Than Pronouns: Creating Affirming Spaces During Positive Prevention Plus March 2023 We all are learning, growing, and doing the best we can for our students. Navigating conversations in a sex ed class can be complex. “Am I using the … 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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Real Talk Evaluation
Featured Project Real Talk Evaluation Real Talk modernizes sex education by capitalizing on youths’ desire to engage in peer sharing. Where We Started Real Talk modernizes sex education by capitalizing on youths’ desire to engage in peer sharing. Real Talk was … Read More
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Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth
Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth & Learning Walks 2014 The Native Youth Project (NYP) was a national learning collaborative facilitated by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), Healthy Teen Network, and the Centers … Read More
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Protecting Youth Access to Health Care
Protecting Youth Access to Health Care April 2022 Of all the reproductive health services—testing, treatment, supplies, procedures—which ones can a minor access without their parent/guardian’s permission? Get the answers during this 30-minute overview of Maryland’s Minor Access laws. This session … Read More
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True You Maryland Youth Advisory Board Recruitment Kit
Youth Advisory Board Recruitment Kit October 2021 Want to spread the word about your Youth Advisory Board? We’ve prepared this recruitment kit to make it easy to share. We’re done our best to make this kit useful for all our … Read More
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Adolescent Sexual Health Equity During COVID-19
Adolescent Sexual Health Equity During COVID-19 June 2021 Join True You Maryland for this engaging and informative training hosted by Dr. Crystal Tyler, Executive Director of Ci3 at The University of Chicago. The goal of this training is to provide … 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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Keeping It Real and Professional Part 2: Answering Challenging Questions
Keeping It Real and Professional Part 2: Answering Challenging Questions February 2021 Educators and facilitators are often torn between the desire to connect with students/youth while answering their questions comprehensively and the desire to maintain appropriate boundaries. This training will … Read More
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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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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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LGBTQ+ 101
LGBTQ+ 101 Training Available Online & In-Person How can sex educators ensure that students of all sexualities and genders feel seen and affirmed? This training covers the basic knowledge instructors need to feel competent leading discussions and answering questions, and … Read More
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Creating a Comfortable Climate
Creating a Comfortable Climate Training Available Online & In-Person This training helps sex education instructors ensure they are using best practices when it comes to setting the tone for discussions, answering questions, preventing challenging situations, and managing them effectively if … Read More
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Youth-Friendly Services Assessment Tool & Guide
Youth-Friendly Services Assessment Tool & Guide 2018 This interactive tool can help you decide if your clinic is delivering services in a youth-friendly way. Offering youth-friendly services means that clinical services are provided in a way that makes it easy … 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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Characteristics of Youth-Friendly Clinical Services
Characteristics of Youth-Friendly Clinical Services 2015 Youth-friendly services are services that all adolescents are able to obtain, and these services, which include full contraceptive coverage to avoid unintended pregnancies and STIs, should meet youth’s expectations and needs and improve their … Read More
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Keep It Simple
Keep It Simple & No Te Compliques 2014 Growing up isn’t easy. Navigating your sexual health isn’t easy either. But there are some things we can make simpler, like making sure you know that you have the right to high-quality … Read More
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Bricks, Mortar, & Community: The Foundations of Supportive Housing for Pregnant & Parenting Teens
Bricks, Mortar, & Community: The Foundations of Supportive Housing for Pregnant & Parenting Teens 2014 Articulating core components based on what we know ensures success among pregnant and parenting teens utilizing supportive housing services that embrace them and helps set … Read More