Youth Specific Sites
TeenSource
TeenSource provides sexual health information for youth to encourage informed decision making. This site includes The Hookup, a free weekly sex and life advice text-messaging service for anyone 13-24.
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Youth Social Marketing Toolkit
This is an online resource for youth providers on how to develop low-budget social marketing campaigns on sexual and reproductive health. This toolkit was created by The California Family Health Council (CFHC) and the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (CA PTC).
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Teenwire
This site from Planned Parenthood gives great information on young men’s and women’s bodies, how not to have sex if you don’t want it, safer sex, and dealing with breaking up. It also gives referrals to local clinics.
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TeenAIDS
Information for youth on HIV/AIDS.
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Pro-Choice Public Education Project
The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) puts choice on young women’s radar screens, educates them about threats to their reproductive rights, and helps young women identify with pro-choice ideas. PEP is energizing a new generation of pro-choice leaders.
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My Voice My Life
This site is a youth forum and a place for quick reference and tools to learn about your body, your sexuality and your relationships. These tools are key to Realize your dreams, Choose your future, Respect yourself, Set boundaries.
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I Wanna Know
Created by the American Social Health Association, this site offers information on STIs, basics about what’s going on with your body, and advice on how to deal with peer pressure.
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Go Ask Alice
Produced by Columbia University’s Health Education Program, this site has loads of questions and answers on all kinds of relationship, sexuality, and sexual health issues.
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Coalition for Positive Sexuality
Sex-positive safer sex education for teens.
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Birds & Bees
The Birds & Bees Project provides comprehensive reproductive health information to youth and adults. The Birds & Bees Project has specific areas of activity, including Internet-based education, classroom-based education, and community outreach.
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Reproductive Health
Recent News & Research
This brief is the first in a series of policy updates and case studies associated with the multi-year evaluation of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC), which provides comprehensive health services to adolescents and young adults ages 10-24 in…
Young Adult Preventive Health Care Guidelines: There But Can’t Be Found
In the context of increasing attention on young adult health and healthcare, NAHIC researchers (in UCSF’s Division of Adolescent Medicine) examined existing adolescent and adult professional guidelines relevant to young adults. They analyzed these guidelines, with special emphasis on the…
According to this study, teens who received information only about abstinence were less likely than others to have sought out the services that are necessary to improving their sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Even among sexually experienced teens, the data…
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
Recently updated with 2010 data, this is 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
Promoting the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Youth in Foster Care
This training takes places Friday, March 23, 2012, 10:00AM-noon at the Center for the Vulnerable Child, 5275 Claremont Avenue, Oakland. Caregivers, child welfare, and health professionals will:
Learn about the sexual and reproductive health of youth in foster care
How…
This training takes places Friday, April 27, 2012, 10:00AM-noon at the Center for the Vulnerable Child, 5275 Claremont Avenue, Oakland.
This training provides:
An introduction to the theory and principles of Positive Youth development, such as understanding resilience and internal…
Panel Discussion and Launch of Public Awareness Campaign
CAHC invites you to a panel discussion and the launch of a public awareness campaign on January 31st at 11am to prevent abuse in teen relationships. Panelists include Elizabeth Miller, Lisa Fujie Parks and Melanie M. Natividad. The event takes…
