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Tip Sheet: What’s going on in the classroom? Assessing the Implementation of Sexuality Education
May 26, 2015
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 moreTip Sheet: Characteristics of Youth-Friendly Clinical Services
April 29, 2015
Youth-friendly services are services that all adolescents are able to obtain, and these services, which include full contraceptive coverage to avoid unintended pregnancies and STIs, should meet youth’s expectations and needs and improve their health. This tip sheet highlights characteristics of youth-friendly programming, facilities, and providers. See our other resources on youth-friendly services: Youth-Friendly Services…
Read moreTip Sheet: Engaging Young Men
January 12, 2015
Young men are an important segment of the population for efforts to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, yet they are often not the target of programming and health care services. The research demonstrating best practices for engaging young men is much less robust; however, there is adequate support to guide…
Read moreTip Sheet: Best Practices for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Teens
By and large, teen parents want to do what is right for their children. Because they are teens, parents, and often low-income, they need strong support networks and a comprehensive array of resources to help them parent effectively while working toward becoming self-sufficient adults. This tip sheet provides information to better support these young people.
Read moreTip Sheet: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a systematic approach that uses information to make improvements to a program with an emphasis on future results. CQI is an ongoing process of gathering and reviewing process and outcome data in order to improve the program, both during and after implementation.
Read moreTip Sheet: Built to Last: Planning Programmatic Sustainability
Your organization is doing great work: youth are receiving vital information and skills that will help them develop into healthy, happy adults, and your community is on board! Now is the time to build a program that will withstand the test of time. Expanding your sights beyond funding can help you build a program that will grow…
Read moreTip Sheet: Classroom Management
Frontline staff require classroom management skills and supervisor support to create a safe space and productive learning environment for adolescent pregnancy prevention program delivery. This tip sheet describes strategies for frontline staff to prevent and respond to challenging student behavior, as well as tips for how supervisors can support staff’s efforts to manage the classroom…
Read moreTip Sheet: Best Practices for Community Engagement
This tip sheet serves as a guide in thinking through building community engagement and helps to identify key elements necessary to engage communities in youth programming.
Read moreTip Sheet: Best Practices for Conducting a Needs and Resource Assessment
This tip sheet can serve as an overall guide in thinking through the important program development process of conducting a needs and resource assessment for all types of programs.
Read moreTip Sheet: Youth 360°: How & Where Youth Live, Learn, & Play Matters
October 8, 2014
The Social-Ecological Health Promotion Model & Social Determinants of Health This two-page resource provides a brief overview of the interrelated spheres of health (individual, relationship, community, and society) in the Social-Ecological Health Promotion Frame and the Social Determinants of Health that influence individual behavior and health outcomes. Healthy Teen Network promotes the social-ecological health promotion…
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