Youth 360⁰ Health Promotion
Healthy Teen Network believes that adolescent sexual and reproductive health is a social justice issue with public health impacts. These impacts are confounded by how and where youth live, learn, and play and require a holistic Youth 360⁰ approach to achieve equity.
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The Healthcare Profession Is One of Service
February 1, 2018
The new Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was established by this administration to ensure religious liberty in health care and to punish doctors and hospitals that don’t allow workers to express their religious objections. In other words, it places the rights of healthcare professionals above the rights of those they have agreed to care for.…
Read moreThriving at the Intersection
December 15, 2017
This resource will be available online in late 2018.
Read morePosition Statement: Health Promotion & The Social Determinants of Health
September 20, 2017
Healthy Teen Network believes that health promotion, or a holistic approach we call Youth 360⁰, is the best way to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for all youth. How and where youth live, learn, and play matters. Health promotion is an approach that enables people to increase control over and improve their health, while…
Read moreWhat’s Your Social Media Age?
August 18, 2017
If you are like me, you might think you know what is going on in the world of tech and social media. You have a smartphone and you know how to use it. I am of the generation that remembers what it was like before the internet was readily accessible and before cell phones. Today’s…
Read moreYouth 360° In Action: Recorded Hangout
August 2, 2017
What determines how long we live…If we thrive…How healthy we are? Is it…What we do…Who we are…Where we live…Our families? How and where we live, learn, and play matters. We cannot expect to significantly impact health outcomes and address health disparities without considering these critical factors, or social determinants of health, that shape our well-being. Healthy…
Read moreAnd the Results Say….
July 17, 2017
Harnessing the power of technology and social media, Crush—developed by Healthy Teen Network and MetaMedia—puts the power of comprehensive sexual education in the hands of teens and meets them where they are. With its use of varied interactive content such as whiteboard animations for describing sensitive topics like anatomy and physiology; negotiation dialogues for condom…
Read more5 Resources on Being Sex-Positive
June 15, 2017
At Healthy Teen Network, we are committed to a sex-positive, comprehensive approach to adolescent sexual health. The term “sex-positive” often has a different connotation for people. Although there are a number of ways you could define the term, one good definition is “involving having positive attitudes about sex and feeling comfortable with one’s own sexual…
Read moreBaltimore City and Healthy Teen Network: Partners in Youth 360° Health Promotion
May 5, 2017
Since 2007, through various funded projects, Healthy Teen Network has partnered with Baltimore City in support of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Current projects are part of Baltimore’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI), which is situated within Baltimore’s larger strategic initiative, B’more for Healthy Babies (BHB). B’more for Healthy Babies is a public/private partnership driven…
Read moreYouth 360°, Explained
April 26, 2017
We promote a unique and holistic perspective—Youth 360°—to improve the health and well-being of young people. How and where youth live, learn, and play matters: we know social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities and disparities. This short resource succinctly explains the Youth 360° approach.
Read moreRace v. Racism
December 13, 2016
I was asked recently if I could recommend an expert on the impact of race on teen pregnancy. The question reminded me of when I taught at a local HBCU and was educated by the researchers there about the difference between the use of the terms “race” and “racism.” It is a lesson I think I…
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