Listed below are Healthy Teen Network resources relevant to adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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Core Skills in Sex Ed: Training to Put the Professional Learning Standards in Practice
August 8, 2019
Guest Blog Post by Jeff Gould The Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education were released earlier this year by the Sex Education Collaborative (SEC), a collaboration of 20 national, regional, and state-based organizations with extensive experience training educators to teach school-based sex education. The standards provide a comprehensive overview of core skills, attitudes, and content knowledge…
Read moreInclusive Sex-Positivity
July 11, 2019
Guest Blog Post by Capri Fiello Sex-positivity, which the Feminist Majority Foundation defines as “celebrating healthy sexual relationships, diversity within those relationships, bodily autonomy, and empowering individuals to control their own sex life (or lack thereof),” is incredibly important in supporting adolescents’ sexual development. When sex-positivity is both inclusive and comprehensive, it shifts the paradigm…
Read moreYouth-Friendly Services Assessment Tool and Guide
June 17, 2019
This resource includes an interactive tool, including a guide and complete bibliography, to help you assess if your clinic delivers services in a youth-friendly way. Offering youth-friendly services means that clinical services are provided in a way that makes it easy and comfortable for youth to seek out and receive the services they need. Key…
Read more#SRAisAbstinenceOnly: New Name, Same Shame
June 13, 2019
We’ve joined with Advocates for Youth, Answer, SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and many others to spread the word that abstinence-only has been repackaged under a new name, “Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA).” But don’t be fooled by their deceitful appropriation of new rights language, it’s the same old shaming, inaccurate lectures. These lessons do nothing but harm…
Read moreWe shouldn’t even have to say this, but #stopthebans
May 21, 2019
When I started at Healthy Teen Network over 12 years ago, I learned about our organization’s history, how as NOAPP (or, the National Organization on Pregnancy and Parenting), we were founded to support professionals working with young people who are pregnant or parenting. We later added the third “P” for prevention (becoming NOAPPP), yet over…
Read moreSpring > Winter
May 16, 2019
It’s spring where I live. Flowers are blooming. Trees are blossoming. And here I am, writing a blog post during a pleasant, springtime #SexEdforAll month at the very moment that the Alabama state legislature and governor have enacted the least pro-choice state law in the nation. It feels like a #NoSexforAnyone Nor’easter has blown through…
Read moreWhy “Sex Ed for All”?
May 1, 2019
Our Director of Innovation and Research, Dr. Genevieve Martínez-García, shares more on why Healthy Teen Network is #StandingStrong for #SexEdForAll, in this short video: Our society has a responsibility to support and empower young people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives, and that includes sexual lives. For too long, we’ve let the disease-prevention model monopolize… Read more
This Earth Day, Consider a Green Sex Ed
April 22, 2019
I have long maintained that sex education in the United States is too science-centric, too focused on “plumbing” and pathology. So, environmentalist sex education may seem like a curious thing for which to advocate. But let me explain. I come from a part of the country where entire communities were built from the exploitation of…
Read moreThe Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education Are Here!
April 15, 2019
Have you ever wondered why we have student standards for sex education in schools, guidance for pre-service teachers, but no standards to help existing sex education teachers become more effective? We wondered that too, and that’s why we decided to serve on a team of training organizations to address this gap. Our team[i] is part…
Read moreProfessional Learning Standards for Sex Education
Have you ever wondered why we have student standards for sex education in schools, guidance for pre-service teachers, but no standards to help existing sex education teachers become more effective? We wondered that too, and that’s why we decided to serve on a team of training organizations to address this gap. Healthy Teen Network is…
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