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Involving Communities
to Improve Programs and Policies for Youth
Acortando distancias entre
proveedores de salud y adolescentes y jóvenes:
Servicios de salud amigables en Bolivia, Ecuador
y Perú
[available online only] [view pdf files for
the full document or by chapter]
Presents information, reflections, and a useful set of tools
for health care providers working to promote youth-friendly
health services in the Andean region. 167 p. (2003)
Advocacy Kit
[available online only] [view pdf]
Provides in-depth information on how to improve adolescent
reproductive health and sexual health programs and
policies by organizing at the state and local
levels. The Advocacy Kit includes information on building coalitions,
conducting needs assessments, planning public education campaigns, working
with the media, educating policy makers, and responding to opposition.
100 p. (1996)
Advocating for Adolescent Reproductive Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
[available online only] [view pdf]
Provides in-depth information on how to improve adolescent reproductive health and sexual health programs and policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Includes case studies that highlight successful Eastern European and Central Asian programs. 63 p. (2004)
Advocating for Adolescent
Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
[available online only] [view English
pdf] [view French pdf]
Provides in-depth information
on how to improve adolescent
reproductive health and sexual
health programs and policies
in sub-Saharan Africa. Includes
case studies that highlight successful sub-Saharan African programs. Available
in English and French; please specify. 64 p. (1998)
Communities
Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent
Pregnancy Prevention
[order form]
The essential resource
on preventing adolescent pregnancy. Five Volumes Series $115.00; Individual
Volumes $25.00
- Volume I: Mobilizing for
Action [view
pdf] reviews recent research on
adolescent pregnancy; describes how to build
coalitions; outlines steps for planning and conducting
pregnancy prevention campaigns; and provides
tips for working with the media, policy makers,
and other key stakeholders. 135 pp.
- Volume II: Building Strong
Foundations, Ensuring the Future [view
pdf] provides step-by-step
guidance on assessing the needs and assets
of youth in
the community, developing a strong funding
base for programs, and planning for the evaluation
of pregnancy prevention programs. 91 pp.
- Volume III: Designing Effective
Family Life Education Programs [view
pdf] explains the components
of effective sexuality education and provides
guidance
in planning and implementing sexuality education
programs. 79 pp.
- Volume
IV: Improving Contraceptive Access for Teens
[view
pdf] examines
the barriers which restrict young people's
access to contraception. The volume discusses
key strategies for planning and implementing
contraceptive availability programs, based
on effective models. 109 pp.
- Volume
V: Linking Pregnancy Prevention to Youth Development
[view
pdf] demonstrates
the benefits that youth development programs
may derive from providing links to sexuality
education and contraceptive access programs.
111 pp.
Nota: Todos
los volúmenes se han publicado en inglés.
El volumen IV es el único con traducción
al español.
Volumen IV: Mejora del acceso de los adolescentes a los métodos anticonceptivos
[available online only] [view
pdf]
En este volumen se examinan las barreras y los obstáculos que
restringen el uso de anticonceptivos por parte de los jóvenes. Se discuten
estrategias clave para planear y ejecutar programas de disponibilidad de anticonceptivos,
a partir de modelos de eficacia comprobada.
NEW! Cyber Cafés, A How-to Manual: Including Designing a Web Site and Implementing an Online Peer Education Program
[available online only] [view English PDF]
[view Spanish PDF]
[view Portugues PDF]
This guidebook is divided into nine easy-to-read chapters. The chapters build so that those readers who feel less able to use a computer can increase their base of knowledge as they read each chapter. The guidebook describes: the benefits of a cyber café and its potential for a positive impact on the lives of young people and adults; the steps in setting up and operating a cyber café; the basics of computers and computer networks; the basics of the Internet; the basics of designing a Web site; online peer education as a key to providing youth-friendly information and support via the Internet; and the importance of including opportunities for youth to learn and practice job related computer skills. Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 90 p. English; 100 p. Spanish; 96 p. Portuguese (2005)
e-News Updates
[view list of all issues available online]
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.
To receive the e-News Updates via e-mail, join Advocates for Youth's mailing list.
Five Years of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education: Assessing the Impact
[available online only] [view pdf]
Advocates for Youth conducted an exhaustive review of existing research to locate evaluation results from state abstinence-only-until-marriage Title V programs. This document reviews the findings from the 10 evaluations that Advocates for Youth was able to identify. It also includes evaluation results from California's earlier attempt at a statewide abstinence-only initiative. 20 p. (2004)
From Research to Practice
This easy to read series explores science-based practices in preventing teen pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections. Tip sheets, bibliographies, and guidelines provide practical links between what research shows to be effective and people's everyday work and experiences. To order
print copies of individual titles within this series,
contact Advocates' Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
at 202.419.3420.
- NEW! Are You an Askable Parent? [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Building an Effective Board of Directors: Selected Annotated Bibliography [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Building Leadership for an Effective Organization: Selected Annotated Bibliography [view html] (2005)
- Ensuring Financial Sustainability: Selected Annotated Bibliography [view html] (2004)
- NEW! Resources for Families on Parent-Child Communication [view html] (2005)
- Science-Based
Practices: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Organizations [view
html] (2004)
- Science-Based
Practices in Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STI Prevention:
Selected Annotated Bibliography [view
html] (2004)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Addressing the Challenges that Face Transgender Youth [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Addressing Harassment [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Assessing Youth Programs and Agencies [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programs [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Creating a Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: Recommendations from the Safe Space Resource Circle [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Meeting the Needs of GLBTQ Youth of Color [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Meeting the Needs of Transgender Youth [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Tips and Strategies for Taking Steps to Cultural Fairness [view html] (2005)
Funding the Future: Resources for Adolescent
Reproductive and Sexual Health Programs in Developing
Countries
[available online only] [view
pdf]
For planners of health programs that serve adolescents
around the world, this publication is a tool for identifying
sources of support. Featuring over 90 agencies and organizations, Funding
the Future is a directory of foundations, agencies,
and organizations that support adolescent reproductive
and sexual health related programs in developing countries,
through direct and/or indirect financing, technical assistance,
and information. 97 p. (2001)
Guía Para Abogar
Por la Salud Integral de los/las Adolescentes, Con Énfasis
en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva
[order form] [view pdf]
Discusses organizing at the local level to affect policy changes to
improve adolescent reproductive and sexual health in Latin America
and the Caribbean. Explores conducting
a needs assessment, coordinating public awareness campaigns, evaluating a coalition's
effectiveness, and responding to critics and the opposition. Includes answers
to questions that are frequently asked as well as national and regional organizations
that promote programs to improve adolescent reproductive and sexual health.
70 p. (Spanish only, 1998) $25.00
Guide to Programs
for School-Based and School-Linked Health Care
[available online only]
The essential resource for advocates and administrators on planning, funding,
operating, and expanding SBHCs and SLHCs.
- Volume III: [view
pdf] Potential Sources of Federal
Support for School-Based & School-Linked
Health Services. 2nd edition, 144 p. (1998)
- Volume V: [view pdf] Introduction
to Legal Issues for School-Based and School-Linked
Health Centers. 35 p. (1997)
- Volume VI: [view
pdf] Introduction to Managed Care.
45 p. (1999)
How to Use Site Monitoring Teams
to Evaluate School-Based & School-Linked Health
Centers
[available online only] [view
pdf]
This step-by-step guide for SBHC evaluations is useful for assessing service
delivery in the early stages of a program. 41 p. (1993)
Issues at a Glance
[order form]
This easy to read series explores current
topics in adolescent health. 4 p. ea. Individual
titles—$2.00 each
- Adolescent Access to Confidential Health Services [view
html] (available online
only, 1997)
- Adolescent
Sexual Health and the Dynamics of Oppression: A
Call for Cultural Competency [view
html] (2003)
- Components of Promising Peer Led Sexual Health
Programs [view
html] (1998)
- Components of Promising Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Programs [view
html] (available online only, 1996)
- Contraceptive Access at School-Based Health Centers [view
html] (available online only, 1999)
- Creating Youth-Friendly Sexual Health Services
in Sub-Saharan Africa [view
html] (available online only, 2002)
- Cyber
Cafés: Improving Access to Information for
Youth in High Risk Situations [view
html] (2003)
- Giving Up Harmful Practices, Not Culture [view
English html] [view
French html] [view
Spanish html] (available online
only, 1998)
- HIV/STD Prevention & Young Men Who Have Sex
with Men [view English
html] [view
Spanish html] (Spanish version available online
only, 1999)
- NEW! HIV Vaccine Research: Creating Support Among Communities of Color [view English html] [view Spanish html] (2005)
- Improving Youth's Access to Contraception in Latin America [view English html] [view Spanish html] (available online
only, 2001)
- NEW! Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Pregnancy among Teens [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other STIs, and Pregnancy among Teens in Developing Countries: Three Case Studies [view html] (2005)
- NEW! Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other STIs, and Pregnancy among Teens in Minnesota [view html] (2005)
- Latina Adolescent Health [view
html] (2003)
- Legal Issues & School-Based and School-Linked
Health Centers [view
html] (available online only, 1998)
- Life Skills Approaches to Improving Youth's
Sexual and Reproductive Health [view
html] (available online
only, 2002)
- NEW! CDC's Condom Fact Sheets: A Comparison [view html] (available online only, 2005)
- NEW! Myths and Facts about Sex Education and Condoms [view html] (available online
only, 2005)
- NEW! Medical Organizations Support Condom Use [view html] (available online
only, 2005)
- Powerful Partnerships: Linking IEC and Services
for Adolescent Sexual Health [view
English html] [view
French html] [view
Spanish html] (available online only,
1999)
- The School-Linked Health Center: A Promising
Model of Community-Based Care for Adolescents [view
html] (available online only, 1999)
- Serving HIV-Positive Youth [view
html] (available online only, 2002)
- NEW! South-to-South Collaboration to Improve Programs for Youth [view html] (available online only, 2005)
- Teens and Emergency Contraceptive Pills: Issues
for Health Care Providers & Educators [view
html] (2001)
- Young
Women of Color and Their Risk for HIV and Other
STIs [view html] (2003)
- Young Women Who Have Sex with Women: Falling
through Cracks for Sexual Health Care [view
html] (available online
only, 2001)
- Youth Development: Strengthening Prevention Strategies [view
html] (2001)
- Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming [view
English html] [view
French html] [view
Spanish html] (French and Spanish versions available online
only, 2001)
- NEW! Youth's Reproductive Health: Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals at the Country Level [view html] (available online only, 2005)
- NEW! Youth's Reproductive Health Targets Must Be Included in the Millennium Declaration [view html] (available online only, 2005)
NEW! Let's Talk Month Planning Guidebook
[order form] [view guidebook pdf] [view sample materials pdf]
Let's Talk Month is a national public education campaign
celebrated in October. The Let's Talk Month Planning Guidebook contains organizing
tips, selected activities, funding ideas, and sample forms and materials to help
communities plan activities that promote parent-child communication about sexuality.
130 p. (2005) 1 to 50 copies—available free online. Bulk pricing: over 50, call for pricing.
NEW! My Voice Counts! Campaigns for Youth's Reproductive and Sexual Health: Advocacy and Organizing Toolkit
[available online only] [view html] [view pdf]
This toolkit is designed to assist youth in organizing around the My Voice Counts! Campaign. It provides useful tips and guidance for grassroots campaigns in general, but it focuses on this specific campaign. 28 p. (2005)
NEW! National Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Month (NTPPM) Planning Guidebook
[order form] [view guidebook pdf] [view sample materials pdf]
Provides strategic tips and examples to help local communities plan
and implement activities in May for National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
(NTPPM). Also includes fact sheets,
guidance for involving youth and working with the media, and sample forms.
100 p. (2005) 1 to 50 copies—available free online. Bulk pricing: over 50, call for pricing.
Parent-Child Communication Basics: An Education Program to Enhance
Parent-Child Communication
[available online only] [view html]
Contains all of the materials trainers need to conduct a 75-minute, introductory
seminar on general parent-child communication. (2000)
NEW! Parents: It's Time to Talk 2005 Calendar
[available online only] [view
calendar]
Advocates' Parents: It's Time to Talk calendar encourages parents
to talk with their children about sex. (2005) SOLD OUT!
Parents: It's Time to Talk Poster
[order form] [view
poster]
Advocates' Parents: It's Time to Talk poster encourages parents
to talk with their children about sex. (2003) 11 x 17 inches, $3.00 each. Call
for bulk pricing.
VIDEO: Raising Healthy
Kids: Families Talk About Sexual Health
[Family
Health Productions' order form] [view
video clips]
From Family Health Productions, the producers
of the award-winning video In Our Own Words: Teens
and AIDS, the Raising Healthy Kids videos
are designed to help families of young children and
preadolescent and adolescent youth communicate about
sexual health. This engaging resource includes two
30-minute, closed captioned videos, with accompanying
Discussion Guides. Set of two videos $149.95;
Facilitator's Manual $50.00
Video #1: For Parents of Young Children includes interviews
with children, parents, and experts. Features of the video include discussing
setting limits, telling the truth, labeling body parts, how babies are made,
self-touching, appropriate/inappropriate touch, and much, much more!
Video #2: For Parents of Preadolescents and Adolescents includes
interviews with young people, parents, and two nationally respected experts.
Features values, listening, avoiding absolutes, mixed messages, relationships,
and more.
Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Campaign
Kit
[order form] [view
kit pdf] [view kit insert
pdf]
Advocates' Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Campaign
Kit is dedicated to encouraging you—the youth-serving professional, health care provider,
educator, parent, policy maker, and youth activist—to join with Advocates' efforts
to change the way society deals with adolescent reproductive and sexual health.
(2001) $4.00 each. Call for bulk pricing.
Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Posters
[order form] [view posters]
Advocates' Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® posters
urge youth-serving professionals, health care providers, educators,
parents, policy
makers, and youth activists to respect young people's right to be responsible
and to support comprehensive sexuality education. (2001) 17 x 22 inches,
$5.00 each (folded) or $8.00 each (unfolded); 8½ x 11 inches, $2.00 each. Call
for bulk pricing.
Science and Success: Sex Education and Other Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections
[order form] [view Executive Summary pdf] [view Full Study Report pdf]
Advocates for Youth conducted an exhaustive review of existing research to identify programs that work to prevent teen pregnancy and HIV, or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States. This report compiles descriptions of the 16 sex education programs and three youth development initiatives proven to reduce teen pregnancies and STIs or cause at least two beneficial changes in sexual risk behaviors. 47 p. (2003) Executive Summary $2.00; Full Study Report $15.00
NEW! Science and Success in Developing Countries: Holistic Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections
[order form] [view Executive Summary pdf] [view Full Study Report pdf]
Advocates for Youth conducted an exhaustive literature review of nearly 200 programs in developing countries. From among them, Advocates identified 10 highly effective programs that showed impact on sexual behaviors and/or on sexual health outcomes. This report compiles descriptions of the 10 programs proven to reduce teen pregnancies
and STIs or cause at least two beneficial changes in sexual risk behaviors.
35 p. (2005) 1 to 50 copies—available free online. Bulk pricing: over 50, call for pricing.
Serving the Future
[available online only] [view French pdf] [view Spanish pdf]
This exceptional resource for program planners, funders, policy makers, and advocates presents the results of a detailed survey of nearly 500 adolescent reproductive health programs in 170 developing countries. It explores new trends in adolescent sexual health programming. Available in French or Spanish. (1999)
Speaking Out! Connecticut's Parents and Other Adults Want Comprehensive Sex Education in Schools
[available online only] [view pdf]
Advocates for Youth and The Parisky Group in Hartford worked in partnership with
parents throughout Connecticut to assess the state of sex education in their
children's schools. This document presents the results of a survey, measuring attitudes towards sex education, which solicited the opinions of
699 randomly chosen adults across the state, including over-sampling of 100
adults each in Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and New Haven. 4 p. (2004)
Talking With TV: A Guide to Starting
Dialogue with Youth
[available online only] [view
html]
A hands-on guide for parents in improving communication
with young people by using entertainment television
to talk about serious issues. Included are strategies
for making TV an ally, conversation starters, and suggested family activities. 46
p. (1996)
Teenage Pregnancy, The Case for
Prevention: An Analysis of Recent Trends and Federal Expenditures Associated
with Teenage Pregnancy
[available online only] [view
html]
Compares the nation's investments in teen pregnancy
prevention programs to its expenditures to provide
services to families that began with a teen birth.
40 p. (1999)
There's
No Place Like Home … for Sex Education
[available online only] [view
English pdf] [view Spanish pdf]
Frequently parents look to schools, religious groups and
community organizations for assistance—seeking information, skills,
encouragement, support. There's No Place Like Home … for
Sex Education is
designed to offer just that. It consists of reproducible parent newsletters
to assist parents in their unique role as the primary sexuality educator
of their child. Five newsletters are available for every age/grade level,
pre-school through grade twelve. 78 p. (2002)
Toward a Sexually Healthy America: Roadblocks Imposed by the
Federal Government's Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education
Program
[available online only] [view
pdf]
Provides information about: the history of abstinence-only-until-marriage education
programs; definitions and comparisons in sex education; the problems with abstinence-only-until-marriage
programs; research supporting comprehensive sex education; the support for comprehensive
sex education by the public, professionals, and others; and what advocates can
do to support comprehensive sex education. 36 p. (2001)
Transitions
[view
list of all issues available online]
Advocates' quarterly newsletter for professionals
and advocates updates readers on a variety of health
and sexuality issues facing adolescents—legislative
issues, evaluated programs, services, and new initiatives.
20 p.
All issues are available free online. Issues on youth involvement (v. 14, no. 1), GLBTQ youth (v. 14, no. 4), and youth of color (v. 15, no. 3) are available in bulk. Bulk
pricing: 5 to 25 copies, $2.50 each; 26 to 100 copies, $2.00
each;
101 to 250 copies, $1.50 each; over 250, call for pricing.
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Uncovering the Facts About Adolescent Sexual Health
Fact Pack
[order form]
Advocates' popular series of two-page fact sheets covers essential statistics,
emerging trends, and resources in a concise and easy-to-use format. Individual
titles—$1.00 each [except where otherwise noted]
Bulk pricing: 11 to 25 copies, $0.50 each; 26 to 100 copies, $0.40 each; 101 to 250
copies, $0.30 each; over 250, call for pricing.
- Adolescent Childbearing and Educational Economic
Attainment [view
html] (available online only, 1995)
- Adolescent
Pregnancy and Childbearing in the United States [view
html] (available online only, 2004)
- Adolescent
Protective Behaviors: Abstinence and Contraceptive
Use [view
html] (available online only, 2004)
- Adolescent Reproductive Health in Nigeria [view
html] (available online only, 2001)
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in
Sub-Saharan Africa [view
html] (available online only, 1998)
- Adolescent Sexual Behavior. I: Demographics [view
html] (available online only, 2002)
- Adolescent Sexual Behavior. II: Socio-Psychological
Factors [view
html] (available online only, 2002)
- Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S.—Why
the Difference? 6p. (2nd edition, 2001) [view
html] $2.00 each (call for bulk pricing
on this title)
- Adolescents
and Abortion [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Adolescents
and HIV/AIDS [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Adolescents—At
Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Child Sexual Abuse I: An Overview [view
html] (available online only, 1995)
- Child Sexual Abuse II: A Risk Factor for HIV/STDs
and Teen Pregnancy [view
html] (available online only, 1995)
- NEW! Condom
Effectiveness [view
html] (available online only, 2005)
- Dating Violence Among Adolescents [view
html] (available online only, 2000)
- NEW! Emergency Contraception: A Safe & Effective Contraceptive Option
for Teens [view
html] (available online only,
2005)
- Gender Bias: Perspectives from the Developing
World [view
English html] [view
French html] [view
Spanish html] (available online only,
1995)
- NEW! GLBTQ
Youth [view
html] (available online only, 2005)
- The HIV/AIDS Pandemic among Youth in Sub-Saharan
Africa [view
html] (available online only, 2001)
- Impact of Early Pregnancy and Childbearing on
Adolescent Mothers and Their Children in Latin America
and the Caribbean [view
English html] [view
Spanish html] (available online only,
1997)
- Parent-Child Communication: Promoting Sexually
Healthy Youth [view
html] (2002)
- Peer
Education: Promoting Healthy Behaviors [view
html] (2003)
- Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Younger Teens [view
html] (available online only, 1996)
- The Reproductive and Sexual Health of Jamaican
Youth [view
html] (available online only, 2001)
- School-Based Health Centers [view
html] (available online only, 1999)
- School Condom Availability [view
html] (available online only, 1998)
- Science or Politics? George W. Bush and the Future
of Sexuality Education in the United States (available online only, 2001) [view
html]
- Sexual Abuse and Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa [view
html] (available online only, 1998)
- The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People
in Latin America and the Caribbean [view
English html] [view
Spanish html] (available online only,
2002)
- The
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Youth: A Global
Snapshot [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Sex Education: Curricula and Programs [view
html] (2002)
- State-by-State
Sexual Health Rates and Rankings [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Television and the Internet: Important Sources of Sexual Health Information for Youth [view html] (available online only, 2004)
- Trends in Sexual Risk Behaviors among High School Students—United States, 1991 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003 [view html] (1 to 50 copies, available online only; over 50, call for bulk pricing
on this title, 2004)
- Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: At Risk for
HIV and STD [view
English html] [view
Spanish html] (available online only,
1998)
- Young
Women of Color and the HIV Epidemic [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Youth
and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic [view
html] (available online only, 2003)
- Youth and the State of Culture [view html] (available online only, 2004)
- Youth and the State of Science: Health, New Technologies, Ethics and Human Rights [view html] (available online only, 2004)
- Youth and the State of the World [view html] (available online only, 2004)
- Youth
of Color—At Disproportionate Risk of Negative
Sexual Health Outcomes [view
html] (available online only, 2004)
European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual
Behavior & Responsibility
[order form] [view Executive
Summary & Call to Action pdf] [view full pdf]
This essential monograph examines the roles of family, media, community,
public policy, sexuality education, and health care in promoting safer
sexual behavior
in teens in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Also includes a unique two-page "Call
to Action" that outlines the need for new national dialogue on adolescent
sexual health, focusing on respect, rights, responsibility, and research! Order
your copy today and discover the major sexual health differences between
teens in the United States and these European countries. 75p. (1999) $20.00
VIDEO: Teens & Sex in Europe: A
Story of Rights, Respect & Responsibility
[order form] [view video]
Advocates for Youth and the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte sponsor study tours to the Netherlands,
Germany, and France to explore the reasons behind
these nations' much lower rates of teenage pregnancy, birth, and sexually
transmitted diseases.
Teens & Sex in Europe: A Story of Rights, Respect & Responsibility,
narrated by Mariette Hartley, provides a fascinating glimpse into the
sexual health attitudes of Dutch, German, and French teens and their
parents and into the attitudes of government officials, educators,
and health care providers. European and U.S. teens speak their minds
about
protecting themselves within sexual relationships. All of this
is against a background of funny, frank media clips drawn from larger
multimedia campaigns to reduce HIV infections and unintended pregnancy. Individual
rate $49.95; Institutional rate $79.95
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Involving Youth in Peer Education
Episcopal Adaptation of the Guide
to Implementing TAP
[order form] [not available online]
Recognizing the power of faith when reaching out to young people, Advocates
and the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. customized Advocates' award-winning
program for use in parishes or other youth settings. 145p. (1995) $50.00
Guide to Implementing TAP (Teens for AIDS
Prevention): A Peer Education Program to Prevent HIV and STI
[order form] [view pdf files for
the full document or by chapter]
This step by step guide leads adults and teens
through the steps of developing and implementing a successful
HIV/STI prevention peer education program in schools,
faith communities, AIDS service organizations, and/
or community-based organizations. Includes plans for
12 sessions, amounting to about 22 hours of activities
that will provide information and skills relating to
HIV/STI prevention. 198p. (2002) $75.00
Peer to Peer: Youth Preventing HIV Infection
Together
[available online only] [view
pdf]
This resource for program planners examines
the rationale and research behind the peer education
approach to risk reduction, focusing on HIV prevention,
and details successful model peer education programs.
24p. (1993)
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Pamphlets Written By and For
Young People
America's Least Wanted: Sexually
Transmitted Diseases
[available online only] [view
html]
This pamphlet focuses on six of the roughest,
toughest, most low-down STDs in this day and age—genital
HPV infection, trichomoniasis, syphilis, gonorrhea,
chlamydia, and herpes. (1992, revised 2001)
An Emergency Option for Preventing
Pregnancy after Sex
[order form] [view
html]
Written by and for young women, this pamphlet
provides information on emergency contraceptive pills,
a birth control option that can be used AFTER unprotected
sex. (2001) 1 to 50 copies,
$1.50 each; 51 to 100 copies, $1.40 each; 101 to 250 copies,
$1.20 each.
HIV/AIDS & the Young African American
Woman: Get Your Talk On
[order form] [view
html]
Written by and for young African-American women, this practical pamphlet gives
tips on communication with a partner about relationship expectations, past and
present sexual relationships, contraceptive use, and past and present drug use.
(2000) 1 to 50 copies $0.50 each; over 50 copies, $0.40 each.
I Think I Might Be Bisexual, Now What
Do I Do?
[order form] [view
html]
Written by bisexual youth, this pamphlet provides answers for young people questioning
their sexual orientation. (2000) 1 to 50 copies, $0.75 each; over 50 copies,
$0.50 each. (Titles on sexual orientation may be mixed for bulk rates.)
I Think I Might Be Gay, Now What Do I Do?
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Written by young gay men, this pamphlet provides answers for young people questioning
their sexual orientation. (2000) 1 to 50 copies, $0.75 each; over 50 copies,
$0.50 each. (Titles on sexual orientation may be mixed for bulk rates.)
I Think I Might Be Lesbian, Now What Do I Do?
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Written by young lesbians, this pamphlet provides answers for young people questioning their sexual orientation. (2000) 1 to 50 copies, $0.75 each; over 50 copies, $0.50 each. (Titles on sexual orientation may be mixed for bulk rates.)
I Think I Might Be Transgender, Now What Do I Do?
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Written by transgender youth, this pamphlet provides answers for young people who feel that the gender to which they were born, or assigned at birth, does not fit them. (2004)
Resources for Young People Who Are
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Questioning Their Sexual Orientation
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Hotlines, web sites, books, and videos to help young people who have questions
about sexual orientation. (2000)
Your Guide to the Clinic
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Written and illustrated by Advocates' peer educators, this upbeat
pamphlet gives young people a look at what happens during a family
planning clinic visit.
(1994)
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Adolescência Administrando o Futuro
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Advocates' Portuguese adaptation of Life
Planning Education. See Life Planning Education,
below, for more details. 323 p. (1995) $54.00
Cómo Planear Mi Vida
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the full document or by chapter]
Advocates' Spanish-language
version of Life Planning Education*
has been adapted for use with Latin American youth. See Life
Planning Education, below, for more details. 372 p. (1991) $54.00
NEW! Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit
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This toolkit contains 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. 79 p. (2005)
Life Planning Education, revised edition
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Advocates' popular family life education program 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. Packed with interactive exercises, supplemental leaders' resources,
participant handouts and a complete guide to implementation, this resource is
appropriate for use in schools and other settings for sexuality/life skills education,
HIV prevention education, and pregnancy prevention. For use with youth ages 13 to 18.
Loose-leaf binder. 541 p. (1995) Prices Slashed
While They Last! $60.00 $75.00
Resource Guide for Sex Educators:
Basic Resources that Every Sex Educator Needs to Know About
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This guide gives sex educators a basic orientation to what resources are available
to support their work. Resources listed include reports, textbooks, teaching
manuals, newsletters, journals, videos, and curricula, and Web sites among others.
46 p. (2002)
Resources for Sex Educators and Trainers: Parent-Child Communication about Sexuality for Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, and Native American Families
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This bibliography focuses on parent-child communication about sexuality issues
for Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, and Native American families. The bibliography
includes curricula, pamphlets, booklets, research, videos, and music. 18 p. (2002)
When I'm Grown
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This life skills program provides age-appropriate health and sexuality
information within a comprehensive framework of self-esteem development, problem
solving, healthy peer and family communication, values clarification, goal achievement
and career awareness. Activities mix large and small groups, discussion,
exercises and role playing to stimulate self-reflection and critical thinking
skills. Soft cover with perforated pages. Program for Grades K to 2 is still available. 170p. (1994) Prices
Slashed While They Last! $30.00 $45.00
Youth Leader's Guide to Building
Cultural Competence
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Meet the challenges of providing HIV/STD and sexuality education to culturally
diverse groups. Using a four step model, this resource helps build the attitudes,
knowledge, and skills necessary to reach all groups of young people. Focuses
on African American, Latino and lesbian, gay and bisexual teens. 78 p. (1994) $10.00
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