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Position Statement: Sexual & Reproductive Health Services for System-Involved Youth
Date: September 21, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems (system-involved youth) deserve comprehensive sexuality education and optimal sexual and reproductive health services in order to achieve whole health. SRH services should be designed and delivered with consideration for system-involved youth. Healthy Teen Network shares position statements on relevant issues for…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Sexual & reproductive health services for system-involved youth. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-SRH-system-involved-youth/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Health Promotion & The Social Determinants of Health
Date: September 20, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that health promotion, or a holistic approach we call Youth 360⁰, is the best way to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for all youth. How and where youth live, learn, and play matters. Health promotion is an approach that enables people to increase control over and improve their health, while…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Health promotion & the social determinants of health. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-health-promotion-social-determinants-health/
Read more DownloadFinding Common Ground: An Overview on Key Conservative Principles to Support Shared Goals for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Date: September 14, 2017
A shifted landscape of new or strengthened power players (particularly those who lean conservative) at all levels of government, combined with threats to public health investments that our nation’s youth are facing, necessitates a reinvigorated call to public policy action by individuals and organizations that support youth and their families. This issue brief is a…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Issue brief: Finding common ground: An overview on key conservative principles to support shared goals for adolescent sexual & reproductive health. Baltimore: Author. www.healthyteennetwork.org/resource/finding-common-ground-issue-brief/
Read more DownloadTip Sheet: Know Your Audience
Date: September 11, 2017
Strategies for Opening Channels of Communication When communicating with elected officials or stakeholders, it is important to understand their background and perspective: this will inevitably lead to a more productive conversation. This tip sheet provides strategies for identifying common ground with elected officials and key stakeholders and tips for opening up channels of communication. Even…
Citation: Suggested Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Tip Sheet: Know your audience: Strategies for opening channels of communication. Baltimore: Author. Available from www.HealthyTeenNetwork.org/Rresources/tip-sheet-know-your-audience/
Read more DownloadPosition Statement: Educational Equity for Young People Who Are Pregnant & Parenting
Date: September 11, 2017
Healthy Teen Networks supports educational equity and systems of support that aid young people who are pregnant and parenting to complete high school. When pregnant and parenting youth graduate from high school, they have an increased chance of seeking post-secondary education and being workforce prepared, and they have a reduced chance of living in poverty…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Educational equity for young people who are pregnant or parenting. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-educational-equity-young-people-pregnant-parenting/
Read more DownloadNavigating the Politics of Public Health: Finding Common Ground in Support of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Date: September 7, 2017
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Navigating the politics of public health: Finding common ground in support of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (4-part webinar series). Baltimore. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/navigating-politics-public-health/
Read moreCelebrating Young Parents (Webinar Recording)
Date: July 13, 2017
Celebrating Young Parents: How New Mexico and California Established a Day of Recognition (Webinar Recording) Over the past several years, two states—New Mexico and California—have been working to affirm the value of young families and celebrate the ways they contribute to our communities because all adolescents and young adults, including pregnant and parenting teens,…
Read morePosition Statement: Title X Family Planning Program
Date: June 9, 2017
Healthy Teen Network supports continuation of the federal Title X family planning program, which provides federally funded health services to women and families, including preconception and prenatal healthcare, contraceptive care, and other health and screening services. We support sustained and increased funding of the Title X program. Healthy Teen Network opposes the exclusion of qualified…
Citation: Healthy Teen Network. (2017). Position statement: Title X family planning program. Baltimore: Author. http://www.healthyteennetwork.org/resources/position-statement-title-x-family-planning-program/
Read more DownloadYouth 360° In Action: Recorded Hangout
Date: May 18, 2017
What determines how long we live…If we thrive…How healthy we are? Is it…What we do…Who we are…Where we live…Our families? How and where we live, learn, and play matters. We cannot expect to significantly impact health outcomes and address health disparities without considering these critical factors, or social determinants of health, that shape our well-being. Healthy…
Read moreLGBTQ+-Who? | Game & Presentation
Date: April 19, 2017
Healthy Teen Network High School Intern Hannah Murray created this presentation and game to help viewers and participants learn more about the LGBTQ+ community. A short Prezi presentation (below), titled LGBTQ+ – Who?!, outlines basic-yet-important information about gender, sexual identity, and the critical need to better meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth, generally. The presentation includes a…
Citation: Murray, Hannah. (2017). LGBTQ+ who? Baltimore: Healthy Teen Network.
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