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Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)

Date: March 27, 2014

Healthy Teen Network provides trainings, workshops, technical assistance, and other customized capacity-building assistance to support the use of the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Learn more about our capacity-building assistance, or let us know how we can support you. HECAT Resources All about the HECAT! Mini-Webinar Series These six recorded “mini-webinars” were…

Citation: Sedivy, V. (2014). HECAT online learning series. Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network.
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HECAT Module 2: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The Characteristics of Effective Curricula

Date: March 27, 2014

Access the second of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.

Citation: Valerie Sedivy. (2014). HECAT Module 2: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The Characteristics of Effective Curricula. Baltimore: Author.
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HECAT Module 3: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The National Health Education Standards

Date: March 27, 2014

Access the third of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.

Citation: Valerie Sedivy. (2014). HECAT Module 3: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The National Health Education Standards. Baltimore: Author.
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Tip Sheet: Classroom Management

Date: January 21, 2014

Frontline staff require classroom management skills and supervisor support to create a safe space and productive learning environment for adolescent pregnancy prevention program delivery. This tip sheet describes strategies for frontline staff to prevent and respond to challenging student behavior, as well as tips for how supervisors can support staff’s efforts to manage the classroom…

Citation: Ashley, O. S., & Chilcoat, D. (2014). Tip sheet: Classroom management. Washington, DC: Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau.
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Youth 360°: How & Where We Live, Learn, & Play Matters (Presentation Slides & Audio)

Date: December 14, 2013

Check out this presentation, with audio, to introduce the concept of Youth 360°, holistic health promotion, social determinants of health, and the social-ecological model:

Citation: Desiderio, G. & Garrido-Fishbein, M. (2013). Youth 360°: How & where we live, learn, & play matters. Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network. http://healthyteennetwork.org/youth360/presentation/
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Tip Sheet: Built to Last: Planning Programmatic Sustainability

Date: October 2, 2013

Your organization is doing great work: youth are receiving vital information and skills that will help them develop into healthy, happy adults, and your community is on board! Now is the time to build a program that will withstand the test of time. Expanding your sights beyond funding can help you build a program that will grow…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2013). Tip sheet: Build to last: planning programmatic sustainability. Washington, DC: US Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health and Family Youth Services Bureau.
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Keep It Simple: A Lesson in Linking Teens to Sexual Health Care Facilitator’s Guide

Date: October 1, 2013

The Keep It Simple: Linking Teens to Sexual Health Care lesson plan and accompanying video, or motion graphic, is designed to help link young men and women, ages 15-19, to trusted, “teen friendly” contraceptive and reproductive healthcare providers (also available in Spanish). Read more on this resource here.

Citation: Avellino, L., Eisler, A. (2013). Keep it simple: a lesson in linking teens to sexual health care. Atlanta, GA: CAI; Baltimore, MD: Healthy Teen Network.
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Tip Sheet: Checklist for Integrating a Trauma-Informed Approach into Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Date: October 1, 2013

While a teen pregnancy prevention program generally focuses on providing sexual health education, ensuring access to youth-friendly health care services, and engaging youth, families, and communities, a trauma-informed approach is a way of addressing vital information about sexuality and well-being that takes into consideration adverse life experiences and their potential influence on sexual decision making.

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2013). Tip sheet: Checklist for integrating a trauma-informed approach into teen pregnancy prevention programs. Washington, DC: US Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health and Family Youth Services Bureau.
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No te compliques! Conectando a adolescentes con servicios de salud sexual

Date: October 1, 2013

The ¡No te compliques! Facilitator’s Guide and accompanying video, or motion graphic, are designed to help link young men and women, ages 15-19, to trusted, “teen friendly” contraceptive and reproductive healthcare providers. Facilitator’s Guide and motion graphic are also available in English.

Citation: Avellino, L., Eisler, A. (2013). No te compliques: conectando a adolescentes con servicios de salud sexual. (G. Martínez-García, M. Garrido-Fishbein, Trans.) Healthy Teen Network: Baltimore. (Original work published 2013).
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Sexual Health Elearning Assessment on Professional Development Opportunities for Educators

Date: September 3, 2013

Healthy Teen Network works diligently to bridge gaps in knowledge and skills in order to support the implementation of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, as well as providing high-quality technical assistance to implementation partners. This document includes the results of our review of e-learning professional development (PD) programs. We are also interested in continuing to…

Citation: Chilcoat, D., Martinez-Garcia, G., Eisler, A., Sedivy, V., & Desiderio, G., (2013). Sexual health elearning assessment on professional development for educators. Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network.
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