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Take Your Child to Work Day at Healthy Teen Network

April 26, 2018

Today, we had 7 of our staff’s children join us for Take Your Child to Work Day. The kids started off with some scheduled activities, but then they started making their own agenda. They had a meeting, and they created a spy mission to solve the mystery of what happened to the training toy stress…

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A Ray of Light for Reproductive Health #StandingStrong


Healthy Teen Network is thrilled to be among the litigants who challenged what has been proven to be an unlawful early termination of millions of dollars in teen pregnancy prevention funding. The three wins in less than a week provide a ray of light in what has been a dark time for reproductive health and…

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Why It Matters: Our Fight for Science

April 19, 2018

Yesterday, Healthy Teen Network President & CEO, Dr. Pat Paluzzi, joined Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh, City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen, and City Solicitor Andre Davis in a press conference on the lawsuit we have joined to fight the Trump Administration’s unlawful cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. You can view the recording…

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Youth Advocacy Is Not a Black or White Issue—Or Is It?

March 29, 2018

Co-Authored By: Pat Paluzzi & Alexandra Eisler I am on a number of listservs and recently read a thread that exemplified some of what we are discussing here at Healthy Teen Network, as we try to make sense of our feelings about the response to the incredible coverage of the advocacy following the Parkland shooting.   Someone posted that there will be…

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“Softening” Schools as a Violence Prevention Strategy

March 22, 2018

I don’t know about your community, but in mine there have been a slew of community dialogues about school safety in the wake of the February 14 mass shooting of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. I took the opportunity to listen-in on one of those conversations. The…

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How Do You Motivate Your Team? (Part III)

March 7, 2018

This is the third part of a blog series on motivating your team (read Part I and Part II). I grew up in the mountains, so winter is one of my favorite seasons of the year: it makes me feel at home, and I am more productive. However, this is not a sentiment that will…

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On Supporting Youth-Led Advocacy

February 27, 2018

Like the rest of the Nation, Healthy Teen Network is deeply saddened by the continued assaults on our youth in schools. We are in full support of the various youth-led school walkouts and marches that are attempting to force our representatives to do what is right and have a common sense, non-partisan discussion on gun…

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Power Through Choices: Evidence of Success with System-Involved Youth


Guest Blog Post by Sharon Rodine & Janene Fluhr Research shows youth in foster care and juvenile justice systems are far more likely to become pregnant or get someone pregnant, compared to youth in the general population. System-involved youth have experienced chronic trauma, abuse/neglect, and family dysfunction; may face mental health and substance abuse challenges;…

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We’re Standing Strong with Youth and Science

February 15, 2018

Well, the news has broken, and the lawsuit has been filed. You can read the full press release for the details, but to sum it up, today, Healthy Teen Network joined with eight other organizations in the filing of four lawsuits challenging the Trump-Pence administration for unlawfully ending the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) grant…

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The Innovation-Research Conundrum

February 8, 2018

How can we get innovative yet effective practices and products into the hands of the end user faster and more efficiently? As the Director of Innovation and Research, I work at the intersection of these two fields. On one hand, I want to create new products and move them to the end user immediately to…

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