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Words Matter: A Guide to Inclusive Language for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

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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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Parenting in the Digital Age

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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

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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

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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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Communicating About Adolescent Sexual Health: Messaging That Moves

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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

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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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Sexual Identity Glossary

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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

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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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What’s Real?

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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

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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

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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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Merck Return to Care

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

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Protected: Delivering Contraceptive Lessons

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

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Young Parents Stories – Bella

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Bella’s Story A story from the Young Parents Stories I had been a nurse for many years. I’d thought I’d seen all of the struggles people could go through. Bella’s story was something new. As a child, Bella had some … Read More

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Why Sex Ed For All?

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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

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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

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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

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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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Protected: Protecting Youth Access to Health Care

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Protected: Adolescent Health Equity

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True You Maryland Youth Advisory Board Recruitment Kit

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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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Protected: Adolescent Sexual Health Equity During COVID-19

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Pulse

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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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Pulse, an App in Action

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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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Protected: Keeping It Real and Professional Part 2: Answering Challenging Questions

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“Having a Baby Can Wait”: Experiences of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion Program in the Context of Homelessness among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Youth

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ReSHAPING “Having a Baby Can Wait”: Experiences of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion Program in the Context of Homelessness among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Youth Captured Through PhotoVoice Qualitative Health Research, October 2020 Suggested CitationAparicio … Read More

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We Must Do Better To Engage Young Fathers: Here’s How

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We Must Do Better To Engage Young Fathers: Here’s How December 2020 Are you providing supports and services for young fathers and struggling to engage them? Have you asked them about their experience or what can you do to make … Read More

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Are Title IX and Maryland Law Really Protecting Expectant and Parenting Young People?

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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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Wingman

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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

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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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U Choose

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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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LGBTQ+ 101

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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

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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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Protect Your Rights

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Protect Your Rights: For Youth Who Are Pregnant and Parenting 2020 In the United States, students who are pregnant or parenting have rights, protected under Title IX. As a partner on Map 2 Success, a project of the Baltimore City … Read More

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How to Talk About Dual Protection

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How to Talk about Dual Protection 2020 Designed for educators and clinicians, this elearning gives you the information and skills you need to address the increasing rates of STIs, whether you’re working in the classroom or clinic. Practice communicating with … Read More

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Youth-Friendly Services Assessment Tool & Guide

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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

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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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Unlocking the Secrets of Classroom Management

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Unlocking the Secrets of Classroom Management 2018 What student behaviors do you find most challenging? What techniques can you use to respond to these behaviors? Explore essential classroom management techniques for the sex education classroom. Take a peek at a … Read More

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Serving Everyone: Providing Health Services to LGBTQ+ Youth

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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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Privacy & Confidentiality

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Privacy & Confidentiality for Adolescents Accessing Sexual & Reproductive Health Care 2018 Follow 16-year-old Kendall and learn about why young people need privacy and confidentiality while seeking sexual and reproductive health care. Complete this elearning course at your own pace. … Read More

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Youth 360° In Action

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Youth 360° In Action: Presentation 2017 How and where we live, learn, and play matters. We cannot expect to significantly impact health outcomes and address health disparities without considering these critical factors, or social determinants of health, that shape our … Read More

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Characteristics of Youth-Friendly Clinical Services

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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

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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

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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

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