Interview with a Teen Mom: Sophonie’s Story
Date: June 19th, 2018
By: Guest Blogger
Guest Blog Post by Fran Benton, Director of Public Relations at Nurse-Family Partnership On June 1, 2018, Sophonie Celestin graduated from high school in Seaford, Delaware. She walked across the stage, wearing her cap and gown, as her daughter, S’vanna, watched. Sophonie is a success: she accomplished her goals to finish high school on time…
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Keys to Implementing High-Quality Sexual Health Education in Schools
Date: May 24th, 2018
By: Valerie Sedivy
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Lessons from Three School Districts I recently had the opportunity to spend time with three diverse school districts to find out how they were managing to help their schools implement high-quality sexual health education, despite the many obstacles that often make it hard to teach this topic. These districts received funding from Centers for Disease…
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#NoGagRule
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By: Pat Paluzzi
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Healthy Teen Network stands in solidarity with the eight women’s health care associations who issued a joint statement opposing the recent threats to Title X services. The Trump Administration’s proposal to extend the international ‘gag’ rule banning clinicians working in federally funded clinics from offering full options counseling to domestic Title X clinic patients is…
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Embracing Your Voice
Date: April 30th, 2018
By: Allison Tomai Felsen
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On this last day of April, also recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, it’s a good time to reflect on the facts about sexual violence and how each of us can make a difference. This year, Sexual Assault Awareness Month is celebrating its 17th anniversary with the theme “Embrace Your Voice” to inform individuals on how…
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Take Your Child to Work Day at Healthy Teen Network
Date: April 26th, 2018
By: Healthy Teen Network
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Today, we had 7 of our staff’s children join us for Take Your Child to Work Day. The kids started off with some scheduled activities, but then they started making their own agenda. They had a meeting, and they created a spy mission to solve the mystery of what happened to the training toy stress…
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A Ray of Light for Reproductive Health #StandingStrong
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By: Pat Paluzzi
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Healthy Teen Network is thrilled to be among the litigants who challenged what has been proven to be an unlawful early termination of millions of dollars in teen pregnancy prevention funding. The three wins in less than a week provide a ray of light in what has been a dark time for reproductive health and…
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Why It Matters: Our Fight for Science
Date: April 19th, 2018
By: Gina Desiderio
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Yesterday, Healthy Teen Network President & CEO, Dr. Pat Paluzzi, joined Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh, City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen, and City Solicitor Andre Davis in a press conference on the lawsuit we have joined to fight the Trump Administration’s unlawful cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. You can view the recording…
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Youth Advocacy Is Not a Black or White Issue—Or Is It?
Date: March 29th, 2018
By: Healthy Teen Network
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Co-Authored By: Pat Paluzzi & Alexandra Eisler I am on a number of listservs and recently read a thread that exemplified some of what we are discussing here at Healthy Teen Network, as we try to make sense of our feelings about the response to the incredible coverage of the advocacy following the Parkland shooting. Someone posted that there will be…
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“Softening” Schools as a Violence Prevention Strategy
Date: March 22nd, 2018
By: Bob Reeg
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I don’t know about your community, but in mine there have been a slew of community dialogues about school safety in the wake of the February 14 mass shooting of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. I took the opportunity to listen-in on one of those conversations. The…
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How Do You Motivate Your Team? (Part III)
Date: March 7th, 2018
By: Mila Garrido
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This is the third part of a blog series on motivating your team (read Part I and Part II). I grew up in the mountains, so winter is one of my favorite seasons of the year: it makes me feel at home, and I am more productive. However, this is not a sentiment that will…
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