ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH

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For Professionals

Today, youth face serious sexual health issues and too often encounter barriers to the information and services they need. Youth-serving professionals—educators, health care providers, and others who work directly with youth—often need accurate information about the needs of young people and about the issues and barriers youth face. This section provides professionals with information about sexual health topics, organizational tools, lesson plans and other resources.

• Sexual Health Background
• Organizational Development
• Youth Development
• Curricula and Curricula Guides
• Lesson Plans
• Resources
• Training, Technical Assistance & Workshops that Advocates’ offers
• National Support Center for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations

Sexual Health Background

• Abstinence
• Abstinence-only-until-marriage programs
• Adolescent sexual behavior
• Adolescent sexual health in developing countries
• Condoms
• Contraceptives
• Developmental and intellectual disabilities
• Emergency contraception
• European approaches
• Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & questioning (GLBTQ) youth
• HIV/STI prevention and treatment
• HIV vaccines
• Parent-child communication
• Peer education, youth development & youth adult-partnerships
• Sex education
• Teen pregnancy prevention
• Violence and harassment
• Youth of color

Information on Organizational Development

• General information
• Funding
• Cultural competency
• Media: Working with it
• National Support Center for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations

Youth Development

• Advocating for the needs of youth
• Components of Promising Peer Led Sexual Health Programs
• Peer education, youth development & youth adult-partnerships
• Youth involvement in prevention programming

Curricula and Curricula Guides

• Cómo planear mi vida: un programa para el desarrollo de la juventud latinoamericana
• Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit—Lesson plans, tips and strategies, background information, and additional resources to help youth-serving professionals create safe space for young people of all sexual orientations and gender identities
• Guide to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS Prevention): A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV and STI—A guide that leads adults and teens through the steps of developing and implementing an HIV/AIDS peer education program for schools or communities
• Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program—A comprehensive, family life education program that includes chapters on sexuality, relationships, health, violence prevention and community responsibility as well as chapters on skills-building, values, self-esteem, parenting, employment preparation and reducing sexual risk
• Parent-Child Communication Basics: An Education Program to Enhance Parent-Child Communication
• Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence (PASHA) – Selection tool to identify programs that work to prevent teen pregnancy, HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
• Science & Success—Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States and Developing Countries
• There's No Place Like Home … for Sex Education
  • en español—No hay lugar como el hogar … para la educación sexual

Lesson Plans

• Addressing Discrimination
• Body Image
• Circles of Human Sexuality
• Contraceptive Commercials
• Creating Group Agreement
• Drawing Conclusions: An Ice-Breaker
• Facts about Emergency Contraception
• Family Messages
• Find Someone Who…
• Four Corners: A Values Clarification Exercise
• Gender Roles and Relationships
• Heterosexual Questionnaire
• HIV/AIDS Password
• HIV Transmission Game
• How to Be a Super Activist and/or Ally
• Hunting for Diversity
• Introduction to Gender Identity and Gender Expression
• Introduction to Sexual Orientation
• Introduction to Sexuality
• Make Your Voice Heard!
• Negotiating Sexual Risk Reduction
• Q & A on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Reproduction 101
• The River
• Talking about Sexuality and Values
• Teaching Abstinence as Part of Comprehensive Sex Ed
• What Can I Do to Create Safe Space
• Who Am I?

Resources

• Advocates' monthly e-newsletters for professionals and youth update readers on a variety of health and sexuality issues facing adolescents. An archive of all issues is available free online.
• Columns by sexual health experts with tips for parents, tips that can also enlighten youth-serving professionals
• Tips for Health Care Providers: Helping Teens and Parents with Sexual Health Needs
• Trigger films, films educators can use in the classroom to begin discussions about sexual health topics
  • Emergency contraception
  • Sex education
• The Librarian's Guide To Sex Education Resources: Audiovisual, Print, and Web-based Materials for Youth, Parents, and Youth-Serving Professionals
• Personal stories of young people advocating for change within their communities
• Resource Guide for Sex Educators: Basic Resources that Every Sex Educator Needs to Know About [pdf]
• Resources for Sex Educators and Trainers: Parent-Child Communication about Sexuality for Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, and Native American Families [pdf]
• What youth-serving professionals can do to promote Rights. Respect. Responsibility.^®
• What health-care providers can do to promote Rights. Respect. Responsibility.^®

Training, Technical Assistance & Workshops that Advocates’ offers

Advocates for Youth's expert and nationally recognized staff offer training sessions to build agencies’ capacity and provide keynote presentations and interactive workshops for your conferences and meetings. Let Advocates design a training for you!