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 situations of young people and about the issues and barriers youth face. This section provides direct links to accurate, up-to-date information about:
Many young people are resilient, intelligent, talented, energetic, and inquisitive, even though they are more often portrayed as "problems." Youth want accurate information and answers to their questions. They want respect, and they want to be taken seriously. Many talented youth are working to improve their world—to mitigate the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, to educate their peers, to provide information and support to other youth, and to improve their communities. This section provides direct links to:
- 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.
- Lesson plans and education programs, activities youth-serving professionals can use to educate young people and parents
- 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
- There's No Place Like Home … for Sex Education
- Trigger films, films educators can use in the classroom to begin discussions about sexual health topics
- Personal stories of young people advocating for change within their communities
- Columns by sexual health experts with tips for parents, tips that can also enlighten youth-serving professionals
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