Innovation is a critical component of a comprehensive strategy to respond to the dynamic lives of adolescents and young adults.
We define innovation or innovative work as research projects or programs that are pushing the boundaries in our field by using new educational or methodological approaches, take place in different settings, or engage participants in creative ways. Innovative approaches consist of creative solutions to existing problems. These can be found in many types of programs, both tech-based and face to face. Just like tech-based products are not inherently innovative, traditional programs can host innovative ideas.
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Spoiled, Lazy, Entitled, and Self-Involved? No.
August 25, 2016
The ‘it’ generation—spoiled, lazy, entitled, disruptors, self-involved, selfie and social media addicts; these are all words used to describe millennials. Millennials, or Generation Y, are those born between 1981 into 1993 and are known to be the largest generation in the nation presently (75.4 million)[1]. As a millennial myself, it is common for us to…
Read moreMaking Innovation Happen: My Epiphany Following the TPP Conference 2016
July 29, 2016
Last week, about 1,000 people from all corners of the nation congregated in Baltimore at the biennial Federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference to collaborate, learn, and grow. Collaboration was the theme throughout the three-day conference, but for me the term “innovation” resonated strongly in every session I attended and every professional interaction I had. For…
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July 21, 2016
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Read moreGetting Better All the Time: The Importance of Investing in Research to Support Evidence, Innovation, and Young People
July 15, 2016
The long awaited results of the first set of evaluation findings from the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program grantees are available, and the results are an affirmation of the importance of investing in the future of our nation’s young people. The results are encouraging—eight new programs were identified as evidence…
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July 3, 2016
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A Look Back at Recent Outstanding Emerging Innovation Programs
April 22, 2016
A few weeks ago, we re-introduced you to recent recipients of Healthy Teen Network’s Outstanding Teen Parent Awards. Among the other awards bestowed at conference is the Emerging Innovation Award, which recognizes programs in existence for less than three years and are comprehensive in scope, innovative, linked with other appropriate public or private agencies, and could be replicated in other…
Read moreCrush Featured by White House: Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color
November 16, 2015
Friday, November 13th, 2015, the White House Council on Women and Girls released a progress report, Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color as a follow up to the 2014 report, and announced independent commitments to close opportunity gaps faced by women and girls, Below are excerpts from the full White House press release.…
Read moreArt and Science of Presenting Your Data
August 27, 2015
Healthy Teen Network Senior Researcher Genevieve Martínez-García, PhD, presented data visualization techniques to OAH grantees, August 2015. View the PowerPoint slides from “The Art and Science of Presenting Your Data.”
Read moreEvaluation on the Cheap
October 8, 2014
Conducting, managing, and reporting your evaluation efforts has become easier and more affordable thanks to many online tools available at low or no cost. Here is a list of useful online resources to help you manage your research resources, collect and analyze your data, and create beautiful diagrams to share your results with the world.…
Read moreSharing Information Online in the Age of Apomediation
December 13, 2013
Whether you know it or not, you’re living in the age of apomediation. According to Dr. Dan O’Connor, apomediation means: “mediated by people to the side of you or all around you, from the Latin ‘apo’ meaning to stand by… It describes the morass—the extraordinary number of voices, sites, blogs, tweet feeds, etc.—that are available…
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