Other Events
Gender Responsivity: Understanding the Unique Strengths and Challenges for Girls and Young Women from Diverse Backgrounds
This Youth Justice Institute workshop introduces a Gender Responsive Service Delivery Model that emphasizes developing, providing, and sustaining services that are responsive to girls and young women. Participants will be introduced to gender responsivity, female adolescent bio/psycho/social development, and the…
AHWG Provider Gathering
The Adolescent Health Working Group’s 9th annual Teen/Young Adult Provider Gathering is the morning of April 27, 2012 at the LGBT Center in San Francisco. The gathering features Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) and Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually…
Sex::Tech Conference
The 5th annual ISIS conference on new media, youth and sexual health takes place in San Francisco April 1-3, 2012. Find out more.…
California School Health Centers Association (CSHC) Conference
CSHC’s annual conference takes place March 12-13 in Sacramento. This year’s conference will be a statewide event. Workshops will range from youth-led research and leadership programs to how to start, sustain, or expand services, improve student health and learning, and…
Southern California Sexual Health Summit
The Southern California Sexual Health Collaborative will be hosting a Sexual Health Summit on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at the California Endowment in Downtown Los Angeles.
This event is a time to share programs, ideas and best practices with colleagues across…
Events
Recent News & Research
Examining State-Level Patterns in Teen Childbearing: 1991-2009
Child Trends’ latest brief uses state-level data to examine declines in the teen birth rate over 19 years. The brief describes variation across states during this time frame, in the degree of decline and in patterns over time.…
Having “The Talk” With Your Kids
Dr. Elizabeth Miller discusses healthy relationships and the launch a campaign in the Bay Area to raise awareness of teen dating violence. As a physician who specializes in care for adolescents, a researcher on teen dating abuse, and a parent…
The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families
This clinical report by the American Academy of Pediatrics reviews social media use by teens and tweens as well as looks at benefits, risks, and other issues such as influence of advertisements and the roll of the pediatrician.…
Recent Publications
ASHWG Core Competencies
Developed by the Adolescent Sexual Health Working Group (ASHWG), these resources are specifically intended for adult providers and educators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
CA Adolescent Data Set
A collection of county-specific data about the health status of adolescents in Excel format
Data Tables
The ASHWG Data for Adolescent Births, AIDS and STD are now updated with 2009 data
Provider Resource
Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California
Upcoming Events
Helping Schools Address the HIV and STDs Prevention Needs of Heterosexual and LGBTQQ Youth
This training takes places Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 8:30AM-4:30PM at the California Endowment Conference Center in downtown Oakland. This event is sponsored by the Alameda County STDs Community Interventions Program (SCIP), the California Adolescent Health Collaborative, the Alameda County Maternal,…
Southern California Sexual Health Summit
The Southern California Sexual Health Collaborative will be hosting a Sexual Health Summit on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at the California Endowment in Downtown Los Angeles.
This event is a time to share programs, ideas and best practices with colleagues across…
California School Health Centers Association (CSHC) Conference
CSHC’s annual conference takes place March 12-13 in Sacramento. This year’s conference will be a statewide event. Workshops will range from youth-led research and leadership programs to how to start, sustain, or expand services, improve student health and learning, and…
