Lessons Learned in Providing Health Care Services for Native Youth & Learning Walks2014The Native Youth Project (NYP) was a national learning collaborative facilitated by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), Healthy Teen Network, and the...
Positive Prevention Plus Implementation, Observation, & Reporting Guidance2022A big part of the True You Maryland project involves implementing Positive Prevention Plus (3P) in schools and communities. 3P is an evidence-based, comprehensive family life and human...
Youth Advisory Board Recruitment KitOctober 2021Want 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 True You Maryland partners, but you may need...
Implementation Evaluation of Pulse: Findings from a Rigorous Evaluation of New or Innovative Approaches to Prevent Teen PregnancyJuly 2021This implementation report provides details on the recruitment procedures and implementation findings of an evaluation of Pulse, a...
Crush: Sex Ed for Real Life2018Crush shares sexual health information with adolescent women—anywhere, anytime. It is an innovative digital tool that empowers adolescent women by sharing on-demand access to comprehensive, medically accurate sexual health information....
Pulse, an App in Action: Preliminary Usage Results from a Randomized Control Trial2019Pulse 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...
Case Studies: What Does It Take to Implement Quality Sexual Health Education? May 2018 In 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 strengthen sexual...
Evidence-Based Programs & CurriculaPresentations, Trainings, Training-of-Facilitators, Trainings-of-Trainers, & Technical AssistanceWe can help you build-buy in for evidence-based programs, select the program that fits your needs, prepare your health educators...
Power Through ChoicesTraining-of-Facilitators Available Online & In-Person Ready to implement the only proven effective curriculum designed for and with youth involved in systems of care? P.S. You can now deliver this curriculum with youth virtually! While the...
Power Through ChoicesTraining-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...
What Works? Sexual Health Education for Youth Involved in Systems of CarePresentation Available Online & In-PersonWhat does it take to provide high-quality sexual health education to youth involved in systems of care? In this interactive workshop, participants...
Young Parents Logic Model2020The Young Parents Logic Model is a tool designed to help professionals and organizations think about how to design and improve their programs and services for young people who are pregnant or parenting. The tool encourages a holistic...
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 many programs and services working with young...
The only proven effective sexual health program designed with and for youth in systems of care.Where We Started After years of supporting their efforts and providing training and technical assistance, Healthy Teen Network acquired Power Through Choices, the...
Increase appropriations for the CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health to at least $100 million annually.Updated February 13, 2020Congressional Action Request U.S. Senators: Submit an FY 2021 appropriations programmatic request of at least $100 million for CDC...
Congress should reauthorize the PAF program because it is vital for students who are pregnant and parenting and for pregnant women who have experienced sexual violence.Updated February 13, 2020Congressional Action Request U.S. Senators: Co-sponsor the Pregnancy...
ReSHAPINGEvidence-based sexual health programs for youth involved with juvenile justice and child welfare systems: Outcomes across settings, Children and Youth Services Review Children and Youth Services Review, 2019 Elizabeth Aparicio, Katie Massey Combs, Claudette...
Final Impacts of the Power Through Choices Program Evaluation Reports September 2016Power Through Choices was evaluated as part of the federal Evaluation of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Approaches (PPA) in collaboration with the Oklahoma Institute for Child...
Internet Advertising to Recruit YouthPresentations, Trainings, & Support Available Online & In-Person What’s all the hype about internet advertising? Not sure where to start, but you want to start now? Tried it before but with mixed results? Need some tips to...
Selling Sexual Health: Comparing Two Pilot Recruitment Internet Ad Campaigns for Latinx Individuals2019Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter offer the opportunity to reach large numbers of youth. However, program managers' success in...
Power Through Choices Curriculum Overview2019Curious about Power Through Choices, the only evidence-based sexual health education program designed for youth in foster care? This overview walks you through the basics of the curriculum to answer all your questions: What...
Volt202019Volt20 helps youth create a written “game plan” as they think about their lives and plan for a healthy future. With Volt20, adolescents and young adults, up to 24 years old, can focus on what’s going on with their bodies, minds, relationships, and the...
Staying on Track Using Getting to Outcomes®2015Getting to Outcomes® (GTO)is an evidence-based approach for planning, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a program. Whether you are just getting on board using GTO, or you have years of experience using it, this...
Fidelity is a Delicious PieU Choose to Know Digest, 2018Consider this: fidelity is like a delicious pie. Say your favorite pie is your grandmother’s special apple pie. Her recipe uses frozen pie crust, Gala apples, and brown sugar. You decide to make it one day, but...
Recruiting? Facebook can help: Using social media to recruit participants2018Here, 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...
Evidence-based interventions and approaches coupled with innovation is critical to addressing the holistic needs of all youth.Adopted by the Healthy Teen Network Board of Directors on June 8, 2018Position Healthy Teen Network believes that organizations and...
HPV: Not Too Late2018So, HPV (Human Papillomavirus)…It’s sexually transmitted, through all types of sex, it increases your risk of a whole bunch of HPV-related cancers, and it makes it more likely that you’ll contract genital warts…and overall, it’s just another thing...
Thriving at the Intersection: Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Sexual Health Education to Achieve Positive Outcomes for YouthAmerican Journal of Sexuality Education, Volume 13, 2018, Issue 3 Genevieve Martínez-García, Lisette Torres, Carolyn Camacho, Hope...
Equipping Youth to Succeed: Power Through Choices 2018Power Through Choices is the only sexual health program designed with and for youth in foster care and other out-of-home care. And it’s proven effective. We created this infographic (originally designed for a...
The Teacher's Guide to Sex Ed2018Providing quality sex ed is more than just anatomy and pregnancy. But how do you focus on all the stuff that matters to help students making informed and healthy choices? The Teacher’s Guide has 8 units (listed below) to cover the...
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