What Are the Health Concerns of Young Men?
Date: March 17th, 2016
By: Gina Desiderio
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Adolescent and Young Men’s Health: Focus Groups: Findings and Recommendations Healthy Teen Network collaborated with the School-Based Health Alliance, a national association of school-based health centers and school health professionals, to conduct focus groups to gather information from adolescent and young and adult men (AYAM) of various races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses about their attitudes…
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Texas Takes a Trauma-Informed Approach to Preventing Pregnancy Among Disconnected Youth
Date: March 10th, 2016
By: Kelly Connelly
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When Cardea Services set out to launch a teen pregnancy prevention program for disconnected youth in Texas, they soon realized participants were at increased risk for sexual assault and other traumatic experiences. The Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program (C-PREP) grantee decided to adopt a trauma-informed approach in its Connections Project, which delivers evidence-based programming to…
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Weaving Life Skills into PREP Programming
Date: February 29th, 2016
By: Kelly Connelly
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To prevent teen pregnancy and protect young people from relationship violence, Alaska needed an approach that covered a lot of ground. Alaska’s Personal Responsibility Education Program (Alaska PREP) was the solution. Alaska PREP goes into state schools and offers The Fourth R, an evidence-based curriculum that focuses on healthy relationships, positive adolescent development, and life skills.…
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Show Me the Money: Designing a Project for a Proposal
Date: February 18th, 2016
By: Kelly Connelly
Responding to funding opportunities can be an intimidating and seemingly daunting undertaking. Last year, Healthy Teen Network released a new resource, Show Me the Money: Healthy Teen Network’s Guide to Developing a Winning Grant Proposal, designed to take the mystery out of the process and save you time with customizable forms and templates. Proposal development is more than…
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Teen Dating Violence: What It Is and How to Raise Awareness
Date: February 12th, 2016
By: Kelly Connelly
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February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM). This month provides an excellent opportunity to not just raise awareness around this pervasive issue—one in three teens in the U.S. is a victim of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse from a dating partner[1]—but to also demonstrate a commitment to ending teen dating violence and support…
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HIV Trends among High School Students and Young Adults
Date: January 29th, 2016
By: Kelly Connelly
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Significant health disparities among racial and ethnic groups persist. Adolescents and young adults who are African American, American Indian, or Latino—especially those living in poverty—experience greater health disparities when compared to their White peers.[1] Most often, the leading causes of illness and death for young people are preventable: adolescent and young adult health outcomes, grounded in…
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Early Experiences Matter
Date: December 2nd, 2015
By: Guest Blogger
Guest Blog Post by Stephanie Guinosso, PhD “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” –Fredrick Douglass Many people are now familiar with the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, which involved over 17,000 adult Kaiser patients who were asked about adversities they experienced in childhood (i.e., sexual, physical and emotional abuse,…
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We All Can Support Teen Health
Date: November 19th, 2015
By: Gina Desiderio
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Join #TAG42mil “The 42 million adolescents living in the United States today present 42 million opportunities to improve the health and development of a young person, not only today, but into the future.” (TAG Playbook) Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow (TAG) is a national call to action, developed by the Office of Adolescent Health, Department…
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Stop Perpetuating the Conservative Community Myth
Date: November 16th, 2015
By: Deborah Chilcoat
I love the work I do. Really, I do! I get to work with professionals and organizations across the country to implement best practices in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and wellness. I have visited all sorts of communities—cities and towns that are racially and ethnically diverse, and some that are pretty homogenous. Some places…
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#youth360: Best of the Hashtag
Date: October 29th, 2015
By: Kelly Connelly
What an amazing time we had last month at Youth 360°: How & Where Youth Live, Learn, & Play Matters, Healthy Teen Network’s 36th Annual National Conference! Hundreds of adolescent health professionals from all around the country–and beyond–gathered in Baltimore to learn, share ideas and knowledge, make new connections and strengthen existing ones, and build…
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