Want help in your efforts to build support for programs and services? We can work with you to…
Develop campaigns, strategies, and materials to support public policy changes at the state or local levels on issues relevant to youth.
Build support and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders, developing positive community engagement.
Write winning grant proposals in support of your fund development efforts.
Share your successes and tell your story, using strategies such as data visualization.
And more!
Healthy Teen Network develops position statements on relevant issues for youth as a way to make clear to our varied audiences what we stand for and as a resource to support our and your program development and public policy advocacy efforts.
We encourage you to adopt and adapt these position statements to suit your needs!
Healthy Teen Network communicates our positions on public policy issues to Congress, the President, and executive branch officials through correspondence, testimonies, and statements for the record. Sometimes we communicate positions individually. Other times we communicate our positions with other organizations in the form of sign-on letters. We post copies, here on this page, of recent public policy communications, organized under the themes of health promotion, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, pregnant and parenting teen support, and other.
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 HIV Appropriations (Chart)
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 Title X Appropriations
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Appropriations (House and Senate)
Pregnant and Parenting Teen Support
Health Promotion
Sign-On Letter: FY 2020 CDC Coalition Appropriations
Sign-On Letter: SAVE for All Statement of Principles
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 FY 2020 CDC Gun Violence Prevention Research Funding (House and Senate)
Other Policy Communications
Sign-On Letter: Girls Equity in Education Act
Sign-On Letter: FY 20 Statewide Family Engagement Centers Appropriations Sign On Letter
Sign-On Letter: School-Based Health Centers Reauthorization
Healthy Teen Network belongs to numerous public policy issue advocacy coalitions. By participating in these coalitions and task forces, we bring our perspective and add our voice to groups of organizations with public policy positions akin to ours. In so doing we amplify our individual work and aggregate our influence.
Public Policy Coalitions in which Healthy Teen Network participates include :
Act 4 Juvenile Justice Coalition & Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) Working Group
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Coalition
Child Welfare/Mental Health Coalition
Friends of the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)
Girls @ the Margin Alliance
Medicaid Coalition
National Coalition for Homeless Youth
National Coalition for Sexual Health
National Coalition on Women and Girls in Education
National Coalition on Women, Jobs and Job Training
National Safe Schools Partnership
Student Health Advocacy Coalition
Sexuality Education Coalition
We’ve got the resources you need to help you in building support for adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs and services. Check out all our advocacy-related resources, or start with our featured resources, below.
Featured Resources
