Whether you are designing a new, innovative program or service from scratch or implementing an existing program or service, it’s important to use effective methods—or evidence-based approaches (or, science-based, research-based)—to ensure you reach your desired outcomes. A step-by-step systematic framework can help you no matter what stage you are in, be it design, planning, development, research, implementation, evaluation, or sustaining. For Healthy Teen Network, an important component of this step-by-step framework is also to apply a human-centered approach.
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HECAT Module 6: What Now? The HECAT Review Process and Use of Results
July 28, 2015
Access the last of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.
Read moreHECAT Module 4: A Walk through the HECAT
Access the fourth of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.
Read moreHECAT Module 3: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The National Health Education Standards
Access the third of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.
Read moreHECAT Module 2: Building Blocks of the HECAT: The Characteristics of Effective Curricula
Access the second of 6 recorded mini-webinars here. These mini-webinars were designed as an introduction to (or refresher) to the HECAT, or Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). Get the other 5 mini-webinars and handouts here.
Read moreTool: Instructor Interview
May 26, 2015
This tool is designed to help you learn more about sexuality education implementation in the classroom by conducting interviews with instructors. It is designed to be administered at any time after instructors have implemented a set of lessons. (Related resource: What’s Going on in the Classroom?)
Read moreTool: Instructor Observation
This tool provides examples of skills instructors need to deliver sexual health education effectively, as described in the National Teacher Preparation Standards. (Related resource: What’s Going on in the Classroom?)
Read moreTip Sheet: What’s going on in the classroom? Assessing the Implementation of Sexuality Education
If your aim is to improve the quality of sexuality education in schools, one of your top priorities is likely to be to provide a high quality curriculum or set of lesson plans. You’ll also want to know how the lessons are being implemented in the classroom. This resource provides tips for assessing the implementation…
Read moreGuide for Technical Assistance Providers Working with Promoting Science-Based Approaches in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes
May 15, 2015
We developed a comprehensive guide that will bolster your knowledge and sharpen your skills providing technical assistance and collaborating with program staff on Promoting Science-Based Approaches in Teen Pregnancy Prevention using Getting To Outcomes® (PSBA-GTO®). The guide includes common issues TAPs experience, suggested solutions, resources, and tools so that you can effectively guide implementation partners…
Read moreWe Love It When a Plan Comes Together
March 25, 2015
As reported in The Baltimore Sun last week, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the encouraging news that the city’s teen pregnancy rate has dropped nearly a third from 2009 to 2013. While this downward trend in Baltimore mimics the national declines we have been seeing, Baltimore has shown a strong commitment to reducing teen pregnancy…
Read moreReadiness for Sustaining Getting to Outcomes among Local Providers
March 11, 2015
Readiness for Sustaining Getting to Outcomes® Among Local Providers: A Discussion Guide for Technical Assistance Providers offers a series of questions designed to determine how ready an organization is to sustain an innovation. This discussion guide focuses on sustaining the Getting to Outcomes evidence-based framework, however, this tool applies best practices for sustaining any innovation…
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