Evidence-based strategies and approaches are effective and efficient ways to achieve positive outcomes. Related terms include science-based, research-based, or proven effective. Evidence-based strategies and approaches go beyond simply proven effective programs (also known as evidence-based programs or interventions).

“Evidence” includes a variety of possible strategies and approaches:

• Using a needs and resource assessment
• Using a logic model to identify data-driven goals, behaviors, and risk and protective factors (or determinants), based on the assessment
• Using health behavior change theory/theories
• Using proven effective, evidence-based, or evidence-informed programs and interventions
• Using common characteristics of other proven effective, or evidence-based programs
• Conducting process and outcome evaluation

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Sex Ed for All Month: Call to Action

May 4, 2020

This preamble and call to action were developed by partners at Advocates for Youth, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Power to Decide, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, and URGE as part of the larger Sex Ed For All Month coalition. This May, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice partners will once again observe…

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Let’s See: Pulse Short-Term Impact Results

March 6, 2020

Authors: Elizabeth Cook, Research Scientist from Child Trends and Nick Sufrinko and Mila Garrido, Healthy Teen Network From 2016 to 2019, Child Trends conducted a randomized control trial with 2,317 young women to evaluate the impact of Pulse. Pulse is a web-based mobile app intervention, developed by Healthy Teen Network, that provides comprehensive, medically accurate… Read more

Training & Support: Evidence-Based Programs & Curricula

February 4, 2020

We can help you build-buy in for evidence-based programs, select the program that fits your needs, prepare your health educators to deliver the program...and everything else along the way to implement programs with quality and fidelity. Services include presentations, trainings-of-facilitators, trainings-of-trainers, curriculum assessment, strategic planning, technical assistance, and more. 17 Days Becoming a Responsible Teen… Read more

Presentation: Sexual Health Education for Youth Involved in Systems of Care: What Works?

What does it take to provide high-quality sexual health education to youth involved in systems of care? In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how the Power Through Choices curriculum was designed to meet the needs of youth involved in systems of care. Through guided small-group work, they will explore how to overcome common challenges to… Read more

Training-of-Trainers: Power Through Choices

Looking for long-term sustainability? Do you have a team of trainers experienced at building the capacity of adult professionals? A Training-of-Trainers, or a TOT prepares experienced trainers to conduct a Training-of-Facilitators on Power Through Choices, where health educators are prepared to implement the curriculum with youth. TOTs are a great way to support long-term sustainability… Read more

Training-of-Facilitators: Power Through Choices

Ready to implement the only proven effective curriculum designed for and with youth involved in systems of care? We can train your facilitators to implement the evidence-based program, Power Through Choices, with young people. We periodically offer trainings open to the public, as well as provide on-site trainings and presentations at the request of organizations in… Read more

Power Through Choices

September 16, 2019

Power Through Choices is the only sexual health program designed with and for youth in foster care and other out-of-home care. And it’s proven effective. Healthy Teen Network is the only national provider for trainings-of-facilitators and trainings-of-trainers on Power Through Choices. Copies of the curriculum are only available for purchase by training participants. Want to know more? We periodically… Read more

Evidence Is the Building Block of Innovation

January 17, 2019

We talk a lot about evidence and innovation…or maybe we just hear all the time about how we need to be evidence-based and also innovative… Use what’s been proven effective—the evidence. Use an evidence-based program. Be innovative. Incorporate technical in your innovation. Build on the evidence with innovation. But what’s that mean? How does evidence…

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Evidence-Based Interventions

December 9, 2018

What is an evidence-based intervention (EBI) anyway? You may know the definition—a specific kind of programming that has been evaluated to show behavior change—but what’s that really mean? EBIs can be a great way to expand or strengthen the programming you deliver in your community. Explore what EBIs are, what makes them different from other… Read more

Position Statement: Evidence and Innovation

November 15, 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…

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