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3 Steps to Establish a Clear Goal to Engage Communities
April 17, 2014
Healthy Teen Network’s Education & Outreach Department What is Community Engagement? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Committee on Community Engagement defines community engagement as “the process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people.”…
Read moreAre you SMART?
March 26, 2014
The first step for designing an evaluation plan is to get a comprehensive understanding of what the program is trying to achieve and with whom. SMART Objectives, as part of the program logic model, can tell us just this information. The program logic model not only lays out a plan or a map to developing…
Read more5 Free Sexual Health E-Learning Opportunities You Can Access Today
March 19, 2014
As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Reproductive Health’s (CDC-DRH) Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Integrating Services, Programs, and Strategies through Community-Wide Initiatives cooperative agreement, Healthy Teen Network provides capacity-building assistance to support grantees to implement evidence-based programs (EBPs) and strategies, with quality and fidelity. Over the course of the project, it…
Read moreSupporting Change through Motivational Interviewing
February 19, 2014
Motivational interviewing (a.k.a. MI) is gaining a robust evidence-base and practitioners are enthusiastically integrating it in program implementation. According to Miller and Rollnick (2013) “Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change.” (Miller W. R. & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Ed.…
Read moreMeet the Trainers
May 23, 2013
After a recent training conducted by Healthy Teen Network, we received an incredibly nice thank you email that, among other welcome words of praise, included the following: “Something much larger than learning correct facilitation techniques happened with the group that I am sure you are aware of—a real training team was created with a group…
Read moreNew Year, New You?
February 1, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Claire Swinburn Are you still on track to achieving your New Year’s resolutions? One of the biggest stumbling blocks we face when trying to achieve goals that we set is our thinking! Our thinking is better described as our mental chatter. Well, our mental chatter often works against us when…
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