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Volt20: 20 Questions to a Healthy Future

Date: March 19, 2019

Volt20 is the ultimate health resource guide every young person needs to help them thrive. Volt20 helps youth think about their lives, decide what they like about their lives right now, what they wish were different, and plan for a healthy future. Volt20 helps adolescents and young adults, up to 24 years old, focus on what’s going on with their bodies, minds, relationships, and the places…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network (2019). Volt20: 20 questions to a healthy future [Website]. Baltimore: Author. Retrieved from www.Volt20.com.

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Recruiting? Facebook can help: Using social media to recruit participants (Infographic)

Date: November 9, 2018

This infographic presents lessons learned from using social media channels and advertising channels to recruit participants into research studies and health programs at the 2018 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting. The social media and internet advertising channels included in the poster are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google Ad Grants, Grindr, and Scruff. The infographic…

Citation: Sufrinko, N., Garrido, M., & Martinez-Garcia, G. (2018, November). Recruiting youth? Facebook can help: Using social media to recruit participants. Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo, San Diego, CA.

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HPV: Not Too Late (a short video animation and infographic for young adults)

Date: October 26, 2018

So, 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 to worry about. But guess what…you can prevent a lot of this stuff with a vaccine!…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). HPV: Not too late [video]. Baltimore: Author. https://youtu.be/3AGwRdMlw2g Healthy Teen Network (2019). HPV by the numbers (an infographic for young adults) [Infographic]. Baltimore: Author.

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Position Statement: Youth Engagement

Date: October 22, 2018

Healthy Teen Network believes that authentic youth engagement, an approach we call youth at the center, is vital for achieving positive health and well-being outcomes for all youth. Organizations that deliver sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services should integrate youth engagement in their design, development, and delivery of opportunities, supports, and services. Professionals…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Position statement: youth engagement. Baltimore: Author. www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-youth-engagement/

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Position Statement: Substance Abuse and Its Intersection with Sexual Behavior among Youth

Date: October 22, 2018

Healthy Teen Network understands that the teen years are a time of experimentation and risk taking and that this is normative behavior (Chick and Reyna, 2012). However some risk-taking behaviors can lead to highly morbid and even fatal outcomes and thus require prevention, early detection, and prompt treatment. Substance abuse and sexual risk-taking behaviors are…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Position statement: substance abuse and its intersection with sexual behavior among youth. Baltimore: Author. www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-substance-abuse-intersection-sexual-behavior-youth/

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The Teacher’s Guide to Sex Ed

Date: September 12, 2018

Providing quality sex ed is more than just anatomy and pregnancy. But how do you focus on all the stuff that matters to help students making informed and healthy choices? The Teacher's Guide has 8 units (below) to cover the basics of what you need to know. Go through all 8, or pick and choose what…

Citation: Eisler, A., Sedivy, V. (2016). The teacher's guide to sex ed [Elearning course]. Baltimore, MD: Healthy Teen Network. https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/teachers-guide-sex-ed/

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Position Statement: Evidence and Innovation

Date: June 8, 2018

Healthy Teen Network believes that organizations and individuals that deliver client-focused programs and services should use evidence-based interventions and approaches, when they are available and appropriate to the people being supported. Healthy Teen Network also believes that innovation is critical to addressing the holistic needs of all youth and to keeping interventions and approaches relevant…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Position statement: evidence and innovation. Baltimore: Author. www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-evidence-innovation/

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Crush (Fact Sheet)

Date: May 31, 2018

Crush shares sexual health information with adolescent women—anywhere, anytime. It is an innovative digital tool that empowers adolescent women by sharing on-demand access to comprehensive, medically accurate sexual health information. Read more in this two-page fact sheet (download below) about Crush, designed for a professional audience. See also, our website for professionals for learning more…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Crush: About. Baltimore: Author.

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Crush (Research Brief)

Date: May 31, 2018

Crush shares sexual health information with adolescent women—anywhere, anytime. It is an innovative digital tool that empowers adolescent women by sharing on-demand access to comprehensive, medically accurate sexual health information. When Crush is paired with CrushTEXT (a series of multimedia texts that invites users to engage with Crush), it is proven effective at laying the…

Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Crush: Research Brief. Baltimore: Author.

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Case Studies: What Does It Take to Implement Quality Sexual Health Education?

Date: May 24, 2018

In 2013, the Division of Adolescent School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC DASH) awarded 17 Local Education Agencies (LEA) funding to strengthen sexual health education in their schools, as part of their efforts to reduce HIV and other STI. Funded partners were charged with providing guidance, materials and professional development…

Citation: Sedivy, V., & Rolleri, L. (2018). What does it take to implement quality sexual health education: Case studies of three local education agencies. Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network.

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