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Position Statement: Homelessness & Its Intersection with Sexual Behavior among Youth
Date: January 11, 2018
Healthy Teen Network maintains that housing is a universal human right, and by extension, a right all. Americans should enjoy equitably. Furthermore, we recognize the centrality of safe and stable housing to achieving whole health. Accordingly, we support policies, programs, and practices to ensure permanent, safe, and affordable housing for all as a matter of…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2018). Position statement: Homelessness and its intersection with sexual behavior among youth. Baltimore: Author. www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-homelessness-intersection-sexual-behavior/
Read more DownloadGrowing Up LGBTQ+ Online: An Infographic
Date: October 20, 2017
By: Nicholas Sufrinko
When approaching topics such as adolescent sexuality, technology, and social media, it is sometimes tempting for adults, even sexuality educators, to focus solely on the Internet Age’s harmful and problematic byproducts for adolescent development and sexuality. In fact, hardly a newsstand exists without glossy-paged headlines screaming for attention with the threats of cyber-bullying, sexting, and…
Citation: Sufrinko, N. (2017). Growing up LGBTQ+ Online: An infographic. Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network.
Read moreLikes, Tweets, and Hashtags: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Study Recruitment
Date: October 3, 2017
Social media and internet advertising continue to prove promising frontiers for the recruitment and engagement of participants for programs, studies, and campaigns. Last month, Healthy Teen Network and Child Trends gave a poster presentation at our annual national conference, sharing key lessons from the digital recruitment efforts of the Pulse study, a randomized control trial…
Citation: Sufrinko, N., Garrido, Martínez García, G., Cook, E., Manlove, J., Johnson, M. (2017, October). Likes, tweets, and hashtags: Harnessing the power of social media for study recruitment. Poster session presented at the Healthy Teen Network Annual National Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Read more DownloadStrategic Plan, 2017 – 2020
Date: October 1, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that adolescent sexual and reproductive health is a social justice issue with public health impacts. These impacts are confounded by how and where youth live, learn, and play and require a holistic Youth 360⁰ approach to achieve equity. Download the print version of the strategic plan below; you may also read…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). 2017 - 2020 Strategic Plan. Baltimore: Author. Available from http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/about-us/strategic-plan/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Ensuring Equity for Youth by Addressing the Intersectionality of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that addressing social and ecological conditions unique to members of historically marginalized populations (such as people who are women, First Nation/Indigenous, African-American, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and/or LGBTQ+) is critical for these populations to achieve justice and equitable health and well-being outcomes. Healthy Teen Network shares position statements on relevant issues…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Ensuring equity for youth by addressing the intersectionality of gender, race, & sexuality. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-ensuring-equity-youth-intersectionality-gender-race-sexuality/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Sexual & Reproductive Health Services for Immigrant Youth
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that immigrant youth (people aged 24 and younger without U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status) deserve comprehensive sexuality education and optimal sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in order to achieve whole health. Sexual and reproductive health services should be designed and delivered with consideration for immigrant youth. Healthy Teen…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Sexual & reproductive health services for immigrant youth. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-SRH-immigrant-youth/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Universal Right to Health Care
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network maintains that health care is a universal human right, and by extension, a right all Americans should enjoy equitably. In the United States, the universal right to health care must be accomplished by ensuring that each American 1) can enter the nation’s healthcare system without any barrier of discrimination or other impediment…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Universal right to health care. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-universal-right-health-care/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Ensuring Equity for Youth by Affirming Those Who Are LGBTQ+ or Gender Non-Conforming
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, and queer (LGBTQ+), youth falling outside of the cisgender, heterosexual norm, and gender non-conforming youth should be affirmed as equal members of society and communities, deserving education and care relevant to their lived experiences. Healthy Teen Network shares position statements on relevant issues…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Ensuring equity for youth by affirming those who are LGBTQ+ or Gender Non-Conforming. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-ensuring-equity-youth-affirming-lgbtq-gender-non-conforming/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Ensuring Equity by Dismantling Racism
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that racism remains a persistent social toxin within United States society. Further, we believe that the ongoing and disparate impacts that racism has on public health at large warrants additional and sustained attention. While we recognize that race is a social construct with no biological basis, the material impact of racial…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Ensuring equity by dismantling racism. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-ensuring-equity-dismantling-racism
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Ensuring Equity for Youth by Applying Gender Transformative Approaches
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that organizations that deliver sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services should apply gender transformative approaches to their service delivery. When so doing, professionals who provide sexuality education, clinical, and supportive services to youth should be cognizant of the environment and social norms within which the youth reside and remain…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Ensuring equity by applying gender transformative approaches. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-ensuring-equity-youth-applying-gender-transformative-approaches
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