Listed below are Healthy Teen Network resources relevant to adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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Tip Sheet: Working with School Health Advisory Committees (SHACs)
November 15, 2016
A school health advisory committee (SHAC) is any group that advises on school health. SHACs might go by other names, such as “school health teams” or “wellness councils.” Often based at the district level (though sometimes at the school or state levels), these committees are not part of the administrative structure and have no legal…
Read moreTip Sheet: Gender, Sexuality, & Inclusive Sex Education
November 14, 2016
Assuming someone’s gender identity or sexual orientation based on how they look, assuming that all young people are only attracted to the “opposite” gender, teaching that there are only opposite genders (boys and girls, and ignoring others). These are all examples where sex education may make youth of different identities, genders, or orientations not feel…
Read moreYoung Women United: Empowering Women to Make Thoughtful Decisions about Their Own Bodies and Lives
October 28, 2016
Healthy Teen Network is pleased to award Young Women United our very first Youth 360° Innovation Award. Young Women United (YWU) has been selected because of their fearlessness in calling out the social injustices young families face and reframing the conversation around young parenthood and sexual and reproductive health. As part of YWU’s work to…
Read moreKeep It Simple
October 12, 2016
Getting the Right Sexual Health Care Growing up isn’t easy. Navigating your sexual health isn’t easy either. But there are some things we can make simpler, like making sure you know that you have the right to high quality sexual health care and that we care enough to help you get it. Check out the…
Read moreHealth Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
Healthy Teen Network provides trainings, workshops, technical assistance, and other customized capacity-building assistance to support the use of the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Learn more about our capacity-building assistance, or let us know how we can support you. HECAT Resources All about the HECAT! Mini-Webinar Series These six recorded “mini-webinars” were…
Read moreOpportunity Knocks: Presentation
A teachable moment is a situation where opportunity knocks and is a time at which a person, especially a child, is likely to be particularly disposed to learn something or particularly responsive to being taught or made aware of something. With accurate information and adequate support, young people can make healthy and responsible decisions about…
Read moreEvaluate
October 4, 2016
Evaluate Was the program successful in achieving the desired results? This is your chance to see if the program you implemented, met the desired goals you set forth. Now ask yourself, how well is the program working? And what can I do to continuously improve it? Look for changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors…
Read moreImplement
Implement Track planning and implementation: how did it go? In this step, you can take all of the hard work you put into making your program perfect and put it into action. At this point, you have selected your program and planned how to implement it, which is a huge accomplishment! However, it is extremely…
Read moreImproving Outcomes for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
An Environmental Scan of Services and Programs The George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) funded Healthy Teen Network to conduct a community assessment of the services and programs available for pregnant & parenting teens in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Read moreSupporting Evaluation
Evaluating the Implementation of Sex Education in Schools Healthy Teen Network partnered with Elev8 and East Baltimore Development, Inc. to implement and evaluate sexuality education programs in several Baltimore City elementary and middle schools. Healthy Teen Network evaluators engaged educators, school staff, and Elev8 administrators in the evaluation process to obtain meaningful process & outcome…
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