Listed below are Healthy Teen Network resources relevant to adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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October 4, 2016
Sustain If your program is successful, how will it be sustained? This is where you make certain that your program is set up to continuously be offered. Continue to practice the methods that were most successful. Unfortunately, one of the realities you will face is that even successful programs may not continue because funding gets…
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Improve How will you continuously improve the quality of the program (CQI)? Continuous quality improvement (CQI) strategies include using process and outcome evaluation data to make necessary changes to improve your program moving forward. Regularly consider feedback from evaluation information in order to improve your program’s future contributions. Encourage your staff and participants to be…
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Plan What is your plan for getting started: who, what, when, where, and how? The planning process will act as a road map or blueprint to follow to reach the destination of success. How well you plan prior to implementing will determine how smooth the program will run. Before implementation, your plan should include everything…
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Capacities What capacities are needed to implement the program or best practices? With your short list of possible interventions, compare what these programs require in terms of resources, staff time, funds, etc., and what you organization has to offer. Anywhere you identify gaps, decide it makes sense to build those capacities to do that intervention.…
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Fit What modifications, or adaptations, should be made to fit the program or best practices with your needs? Reviewing for fit takes the few programs you selected when you looked into best practices (usually 2-4 interventions) and checks if they match the needs and values of participating youth and the surrounding community. Distinguishing a good…
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Evidence What existing evidence-based approaches and best practices worth adopting? 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 goals, behaviors, and risk and protective factors…
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Goals What are the goals, priority population, and desired outcomes? Think of your logic model as your road map, identifying and linking the pathways between your goals and program activities. The BDI (Behavior-Determinant-Intervention) logic model is commonly used in the adolescent sexual and reproductive health field to link activities with goals. (See also: Framework) BDI… Read more
Engaging Community
Collaborating to Leverage Funding & Resources: A Strategic Plan to Reduce Teen Births in Baltimore City Healthy Teen Network partnered with the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Center for Adolescent Health to develop a city-wide strategic plan to reduce teen births in Baltimore city. This collaboration generated…
Read moreStep-By-Step Guide to Using Evidence-Based Approaches
It can become overwhelming to think about everything it takes to integrate evidence-based approaches into program and service delivery. Using a framework to integrate these evidence-based approaches, step-by-step, can make this process easier, whether you are designing new, innovative programs or services; implementing evidence-based interventions/programs or services; or adapting existing programs and services. There are…
Read moreStrategic Plan to Reduce Births in Baltimore City, Executive Summary
October 3, 2016
Recommendations in the strategic plan to significantly reduce Baltimore City teen birth rates include: increased access to comprehensive sex education and contraceptive services for youth; educating youth about the availability of services and what it really means to be a teen parent; expanding school based or school linked clinical services; identifying a lead agency to…
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