Sexting: The New Dinner ConversationMay 2022Have 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 the screen at your family movie night? Join...
Wish List for Creating Resources to Help Youth-Supporting Professionals Address Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthNovember 2021Do you create or use resources that address adolescent sexual and reproductive health? Activate created a wish list of strategies for...
Sexual & Reproductive Health Resource FinderNovember 2021From tool kits and trainings to fact sheets and reports, the Activate Sexual and Reproductive Health Resource Finder has something for every youth-supporting professional. The Activate resource finder was...
Understanding the Research on Condom Use & STIs Among Youth Involved In Systems or Experiencing HomelessnessNovember 2021Do you work with youth involved with the child welfare and/or justice systems or youth experiencing homelessness and want to learn how to help...
7 Tips for Youth-Supporting Professionals for Talking withYouth About Sexual and Reproductive HealthNovember 2021Youth-supporting professionals can play a critical role in educating youth about sexual health. Through open, honest conversations with youth about sexual...
Consent and Sexting: An Essential Conversation with Young PeopleJanuary 2022Join 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...
If your work touches the lives of young people, these resources are for you. Where We Started Child Trends, in partnership with Chapin Hall and Healthy Teen Network, develop and disseminate research-based practice resources for professionals who work with youth....
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 and support diverse learning...
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...
ReSHAPING“The internet is not private”: The role of social media in sexual health among youth in foster care Journal of Adolescence, June 2020 Olivia N. Kachingwe, John P. Salerno, Bradley O. Boekeloo, Jessica N. Fish, MelanieGeddings-Hayes, Faduma Aden,...
Wingman Suggestive KeyboardComing 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...
Zola HealthbotZola, available as a Facebook Chatbot, answers burning questions about HPV and HPV vaccination to help parents and young adults in their decision to get their children or themselves vaccinated. Zola provides concise, friendly, and empathetic bits of...
Making the Most of Zoom TrainingsTrainingBuild your skills and confidence using Zoom! Experience various Zoom features, including breakout rooms, annotation, screen sharing, sharing audio, renaming, changing backgrounds, and more. You’ll also become familiar with...
How to Discuss Sex and Social MediaU Choose to Know Digest, 2018We 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 is not always negative,...
HPV: By the Numbers (for parents)2019HPV...maybe you’ve heard about the kinds of cancers it causes, the 30,000+ people it affects every year, or that it’s sexually transmitted (through all types of sex), but you still aren’t sure about vaccinating your child, and you...
HPV: The Sooner, the Better for Peace of Mind2018HPV...maybe you’ve heard about the kinds of cancers it causes, the 30,000+ people it affects every year, or that it’s sexually transmitted (through all types of sex), but you still aren’t sure about vaccinating your...
HPV: By the Numbers2019So, 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...
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...
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...
Authentic youth engagement is vital for achieving positive health and well-being outcomes for all youth. Adopted by the Healthy Teen Network Board of Directors on October 22, 2018Position Healthy Teen Network believes that authentic youth engagement, an approach we...
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...
Growing Up LGBTQ+ Online 2017When 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...
Likes, Tweets, & Hashtags: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Study Recruitment2017Social media and internet advertising continue to prove promising frontiers for the recruitment and engagement of participants for programs, studies, and campaigns. While...
Making Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education Work in Schools (MESHEWS) 2017 Making Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education Work in Schools (MESHEWS) is a companion to the PSBA-GTO manual, building on the PSBA-GTO process to reflect the unique needs of education...
Social determinants of health shape one’s long-term physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being.Adopted by the Healthy Teen Network Board of Directors on June 9, 2017Position Healthy Teen Network believes that health promotion, or a holistic approach...
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