Healthy sexuality and behaviors
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Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes 
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.
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Description: Are you up on the latest research about bullying in childhood and adolescence? Do you have the information you need to guide parents and decision-makers in your communities toward effective responses? In this archived "Just In Time Parenting" webinar, Dr. Stephen Erath reviews the latest research on bullying, as well as the effectiveness of various prevention and intervention approaches.
Characteristics of Positive Parent-Child Interactions
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: From the Parenting in Context website, this fact sheet provides strategies for parenting adolescents.
Characteristics of Positive Parent-Child Interactions: Autonomy
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: From the Parenting in Context website, this fact sheet provides strategies for parenting adolescents.
Characteristics of Positive Parent-Child Interactions: Monitor
Author: Kopko, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: From the Parenting in Context website, this fact sheet provides strategies for parenting adolescents.
Description: Dads Make a Difference is an umbrella program for two curricula: Dads Make a Difference (taught by older teens to middle-school youth) and The R Factor: Building Resiliency in Young Adults (aimed at students 16-20 years old. The curricula promote the positive involvement of fathers and educates youth about responsible parenting.
Developing Emotionally Skilled Children
Author: Grumbach, Giesela
Description: Provides information about the emotional development of children and how parents can help their children gain control over emotions.
Description: Parent and family education helps you meet the challenges of raising teens. This program builds family strengths including better family communication and decision-making; stronger parent-teen relationships; and more confident parenting. Includes resources on how parents and teens can talk about difficult topics.
Description: This webinar focuses on family planning issues, contraceptive methods available to adolescents and factors to consider in choosing an appropriate method.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This video discusses the issue of hazing.
Hooking up with Teens to Promote Healthy Relationships
Description: This resource aims to take teen-dating-violence prevention out of the classroom and into the realm of young people's Internet-infused lives.
Let's Move: America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
Description: Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. Combining comprehensive strategies with common sense, Let's Move! is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. Giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Providing healthier foods in our schools. Ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food. And, helping kids become more physically active.
Parent/Family Involvement (2009)
Description: New York State Center for School Safety, talks about the benefits and challenges of involving families in youth programs, and offers resources particularly for programs focusing on adolescent sexual health.
Description: NIHCM Foundation: This issue brief reviews the need for confidential care delivery for adolescents, legal protections in place, and health insurance system barriers to delivering confidential care. It recommends strategies for health insurers to assure that their billing processes are protecting adolescents' access to confidential care.
Recovering from Self-Injurious Behavior
Description: This presentation covers some common recovery processes and includes tips to make the recovery process from self-injury easier, and presents the information in a visual, narrated PowerPoint format.
Description: This factsheet describes some common recovery processes and includes tips to make the recovery process easier
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Description: This website is the home page for the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a non-profit organization that develops, collects and disseminates information and advocates for responsible sexual choices. The site provides resources and links for a wide variety of audiences on numerous sexuality issues.
Description: StopAlcoholAbuse.Gov is a comprehensive portal of Federal resources for information on underage drinking and ideas for combating this issue. Aimed at parents, educators, community-based organizations, and youth. Parents will find resources on initiating conversations with their children. Publications in English and Spanish are available.
Description: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
Talking With Kids About Violence
Description: This website is geared toward helping parents talk with their children about sex, violence, HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, and healthy development.
Ten Secrets Teens Want You To Know!
Description: This article presents 10 things teenagers want their parents to know about the things that they really want most and the things that concern them the most.
Therapy: Myths and Misconceptions
Description: This factsheet explains the truth behind some common misconceptions of therapy, particularly in connection with those dealing with self-injury.
Description: This factsheet describes the goals of treatment, first steps in beginning therapy, confidentiality issues, characteristics of individual and family therapy, and more.
Description: This factsheet covers a range of topics, from who self-injures, why people to self-injure, factors that contribute to self-injury, to issues of addiction and contagion.
WHAT MAKES A CHILD MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE DATING ABUSE AS A TEEN?
Description: A study published last year traces the relationship between teen dating violence and children's earlier family life and behavior.
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A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: Have You Talked with Your Teen Today?
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about issues that are important in shaping a young person's behavior and values.
A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers: I'm In Love. I'm Not Gonna Get Pregnant
Author: King, Howard (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet from "Teen Talk" provides suggestions for parents on talking with their teenagers about sex.
Best Practices in Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Practitioner Handbook
Author: Moncloa, Fe
Description: This handbook presents ten best practices from the literature, as well as findings from surveys and visits made to local teen pregnancy prevention programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include: Youth Development; Involvement of Family and Other Caring Adults; Male Involvement; Cultural Relevance; Community-Wide Campaigns; Service Learning Programs; Programs to Improve Employment Opportunities and Encourage Education; Sexuality Education and AIDS Prevention Programs; Outreach in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs; Access to Reproductive Health Services Each of the best practices include: Key Research Findings, Program Recommendations, and Tips from the Field. The Appendix includes information on developmental assets, adolescent cognitive and social development, and promising pregnancy prevention programs.
Description: Are you up on the latest research about bullying in childhood and adolescence? Do you have the information you need to guide parents and decision-makers in your communities toward effective responses? In this archived "Just In Time Parenting" webinar, Dr. Stephen Erath reviews the latest research on bullying, as well as the effectiveness of various prevention and intervention approaches.
Author: Erath, Stephen
Description: This is an archived webinar conducted in collaboration with CYFERnet, USDA/NIFA, eXtension, and the Dept. of Defense focusing on bullying prevention, evidence-based intervention programs, and what parents can do.
BullyingInfo.org: Bullying Prevention and Response
Description: Youth, parents, schools, communities, and others have a role to play in building positive, supportive environments for children and youth, promoting acceptance and respect among all individuals, and ultimately, fostering youth development and learning. This federal government website provides a "one-stop shop" access point to federal resources, programs and research on preventing bullying.
Center on Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy and Parenting
Description: CASPP provides on-site support to establish adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting programs; web-based information on research and programs on adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting; assistance with program development and evaluation; reviews of research; training in specific areas related to adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting programs (e.g., violence, mentoring, fatherhood); information and assistance with community development to support adolescent sexuality; and pregnancy and parenting efforts (e.g., fundraising, coalition building, needs assessment).
Description: This training was developed to educate child welfare professionals about substance abuse and mental health disorders among families involved in he child welfare system. It is intended to provide learning opportunities and baseline knowledge on substance abuse and mental health problems and interventions; motivate and facilitate cross-systems work; and incorporate cultural awareness and facilitate cultural competency in child welfare practice.
Description: Children's Response Center, a program of Harborview Medical Center, provides services and support for children and youth under the age of 18 who have experienced sexual assault or other traumatic events. problems.
Communicating With Your Teen: Talking about Sex
Description: This fact sheet provides information on communicating with your teen about sex.
Description: Dads Make a Difference is an umbrella program for two curricula: Dads Make a Difference (taught by older teens to middle-school youth) and The R Factor: Building Resiliency in Young Adults (aimed at students 16-20 years old. The curricula promote the positive involvement of fathers and educates youth about responsible parenting.
Deciding about Early Dating (in PDF)
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses dating as in time a boy and girl spend time together unsupervised, outside of school, church, or community group activities.
Drugged and Drunk Driving Package
Description: The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign provides FREE online resources for community leaders and parents of teen drivers to help start the conversation about the dangers of driving under the influence.
Drunk Driving: Over the Limit. Under Arrest
Description: Impaired driving continues to be one of the deadliest crimes in America. This site is designed to provide you with information and resources to fight drunk and drugged driving in your community.
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about parties.
I’m in Love. I’m Not Gonna Get Pregnant!
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about sex.
Living With Your Teenager: Understanding Emotional Changes
Description: This publication suggests tips for reaching a middle ground with your teenager by understanding what worries they face without yielding all parental guidance. Results from a recent study of what worries teens most set the agenda for a discussion of how to keep the communication lines open. References are included.
Living With Your Teenager: Understanding Physical Changes
Description: Late childhood to early adolescence is one of the most rapid and dramatic periods of physical change in the human life cycle. During these year — sometimes difficult for both child and parents, the child becomes physically like an adult. The teen years and the changes that accompany them are exciting and challenging. Parental support, concern and guidance can do a great deal to promote your child's positive sense of self and cement healthy relationships.
Maltreatment and Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program
Description: The Maltreatment and Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program (MAPPP) builds community awareness about the prevalence of violence in the lives of young women.
New Trends in U.S. Births and Fertility Rates
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (5 more by this author)
Description: This news release summarizes new trends in birth and fertility rates. Teen birth rates have declined to the lowest rate ever reported in the United States. The rates are down by nearly one-third since 1991, from 61.8 per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19 to 41.6 per 1,000 in 2003. However, the percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades with over one-quarter of births to women ages 25 to 29 and over half of the births to women ages 20 to 25 to unmarried women.
Parents and Teens Talking About Alcohol (Teen Talk Take and Teach CD)
Description: This CD was developed to help parents: Identify reasons teens use alcohol, explore and talk about their and their family's values related to alcohol, identify ways families influence teen alcohol use, and consider strategies for supporting their teens in making healthy decisions.
Description: The Promising Practices Network features summaries of evaluated programs that improve outcomes for children. Topics include: Behavior Problems, Child Abuse and Neglect, Cognitive Development / School Performance, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Physical Health, Poverty / Welfare, Substance Abuse, Teen Sex/Pregnancy, and Violent Behavior.
SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) highlights new resources
Description: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) provides information and other resources on evidence-based interventions.
Sex Between Young Teens and Older Individuals: A Demogrphic Portrait
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (5 more by this author); Erum Ikramullah; Janet Liechty; Kristin Moore
Description: This Child Trends research brief is based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (2002). It presents the results of studies on teen sexuality, especially sex between young teens and older individuals.
Description: SexEdLibrary from SIECUS (the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) is a highly acclaimed resource for educators, counselors, administrators, and health professionals seeking the latest in human sexuality research, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities.
Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
SIECUS Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
Description: Provides information to help parents discuss healthy sexual development and sexuality issues with their children. Resources are available in both English and Spanish.
Sólo Estoy Enamorada, ¡No me Voy a Embarazar!
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about sex.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national campaign by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation. This site provides parents with ways to talk to their children about sex, HIV and AIDS, violence, as well as alcohol and other drugs. Some resources are available in Spanish.
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
Description: Talking With Kids About Tough Issues is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.
Teaching Our Daughters about Sexuality
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet aimed at helping parents teach their children about healthy sexual development.
Teaching Our Sons about Sexuality
Author: Bower, Don (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping parents teach their sons about healthy sexual development.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This video discusses teen texting.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program
Description: This website provides information on using evidence-based teen pregnancy programs.
The ABCs of Health-Focused Well-Being
Author: Pelican, Suzanne; Marci Getz; Fred Vanden Heede
Description: The objective of this guide is to increase awareness of and appreciation for a health-focused versus a weight-focused approach to well being and to do so in a format that is appealing and user-friendly. Most of the content is conveyed through definitions of 38 health-related terms and concepts from "A" through "Z".
Description: Part of the Teen Talk Fact Sheet series, this two-page fact sheet discusses the importance of talking to teens about parties.
Description: What if your son or daughter wants to have a house party with drinking? Yes or no? This video explores this issue.
What Parents Need to Know About Self-Injury in Adolescents
Author: Whitlock, Janis (5 more by this author)
Description: The increase in the number of youth who self-injure is alarming for adults who work with or parent youth. Associated mainly with the term "cutting", self-injury can also include behaviors such as carving, burning, scratching, punching oneself or other objects, and bone breaking. This workshop summarized what is known about the prevalence and nature of self-injurious behavior in the general youth population, and about how the behavior may be spreading. It included results from a New York State study on self-injury in schools and recommendations for detecting, intervening, and preventing it.
Description: Wise Guys is a male-oriented teen pregnancy prevention program that began in Greensboro, NC in 1990. It is an interactive, fund and informative approach to helping male adolescents make wiser, more responsible decisions. Classes are offered in English and Spanish.
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Best Practices in Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Practitioner Handbook
Author: Moncloa, Fe
Description: This handbook presents ten best practices from the literature, as well as findings from surveys and visits made to local teen pregnancy prevention programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include: Youth Development; Involvement of Family and Other Caring Adults; Male Involvement; Cultural Relevance; Community-Wide Campaigns; Service Learning Programs; Programs to Improve Employment Opportunities and Encourage Education; Sexuality Education and AIDS Prevention Programs; Outreach in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs; Access to Reproductive Health Services Each of the best practices include: Key Research Findings, Program Recommendations, and Tips from the Field. The Appendix includes information on developmental assets, adolescent cognitive and social development, and promising pregnancy prevention programs.
Description: The study investigated how individual risk factors interact with social contextual-level protective factors to predict problematic substance use among a sample of 12th-grade students (n = 8,879, 53% female). Adolescents with high levels of individual risk benefited less from a positive family or neighborhood context than adolescents with low levels of individual risk. These findings suggest that the individual risk factors may undermine the protective effect of parental supervision, discipline, and other family factors, as well as protective aspects of cohesive neighborhoods, among these adolescents.
Exploring the Links Between Family Strengths and Adolescent Outcomes
Author: Moore, Kristin (9 more by this author)
Description: This Research Brief reports on the results of new Child Trends study conducted by America’s Promise Alliance. The findings indicate that family strengths are associated with significantly better outcomes for adolescents in both lower-income families and higher-income families. The authors found that adolescents from families that have these strengths are more likely to perform well in school, to avoid risky behaviors, and to demonstrate positive social behaviors than are adolescents from families that lack these strengths.
Harnessing the Strengths of African American Families through Family-Based Preventive Interventions
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Velma McBride Murry of Vanderbilt University. AIDS is the leading killer of African Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. The disparity in HIV infection rate among African Americans youth residing in rural Southern regions of the United States suggests an urgent need to identify ways to reduce HIV-related risk behavior. The challenge is to harness African American families’ protective capacities during middle childhood to foster positive development and limit high risk behaviors through emerging adulthood. Professor Murry speaks on her research with The Strong African American Families (SAAF) program, designed to enhance parenting and family processes which deter early sexual onset and the initiation of alcohol and drug use among rural African American preadolescents.
Information for Parents: What You Need to Know about Self-Injury
Author: Sweet, Miranda; Janis Whitlock
Description: This fact sheet from the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior is aimed at parents dealing with children who are self-injuring. It includes suggestions on how to talk with the child and ways to support the child while they are getting help.
New Trends in U.S. Births and Fertility Rates
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (5 more by this author)
Description: This news release summarizes new trends in birth and fertility rates. Teen birth rates have declined to the lowest rate ever reported in the United States. The rates are down by nearly one-third since 1991, from 61.8 per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19 to 41.6 per 1,000 in 2003. However, the percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades with over one-quarter of births to women ages 25 to 29 and over half of the births to women ages 20 to 25 to unmarried women.
Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors and Protective Factors
Description: Research over the past two decades has tried to determine how drug abuse begins and how it progresses. Many factors can add to a person’s risk for drug abuse. Risk factors can increase a person’s chances for drug abuse, while protective factors can reduce the risk.
Author: Ariel, Janet
Description: This is a summary of research on raising teenagers. In Spanish.
Sex Between Young Teens and Older Individuals: A Demogrphic Portrait
Author: Manlove, Jennifer (5 more by this author); Erum Ikramullah; Janet Liechty; Kristin Moore
Description: This Child Trends research brief is based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (2002). It presents the results of studies on teen sexuality, especially sex between young teens and older individuals.
Sexual Health Statistics for Teenagers and Young Adults in the United States
Description: This is a fact sheet on teen sexual activity that covers a broad range of sexual health topics facing teens including general sexual activity, sexual partners and relationships, sex, substance abuse and violence, pregnancy, contraception and protection, STDs, health care and communication.
Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
Strengthening Families Program Statewide Outcomes
Description: This research brief documents the successful implementation of Iowa State University's "Strengthening Families Program" offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators from January through November, 2007 across five New York counties and in New York City.
Description: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health.
Author: Aufseeser, Dena (1 more by this author); Brett Brown; Susan Jekielek
Description: This research brief reports on data about teens experiences in their families with a particular focus on differences across social groups. The purpose of the brief is to identify where disparities exist and where needs for intervention are greatest. The brief concludes with a discussion on implications for parenting and for policy.
Top 15 Misconceptions of Self-Injury
Author: Caicedo , SASKYA ; Janis Whitlock
Description: This fact sheet from the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior briefly outlines the top 15 misconceptions on self-injury among young adults.
Trends and Recent Estimates: Contraceptive Use Among U.S. Teens
Description: This research brief draws on nationally representative data to provide information on teenagers patterns of contraceptive use during heterosexual, vaginal intercourse. Among the findings are that teen females are using more effective hormonal methods to prevent pregnancy and that most sexually active teens used some form of contraception both the first and most recent time that they had sex. Hispanic teens, teens who initiate sex at a younger age, and teens who use condoms inconsistently show lower levels of contraceptive use, putting them at greater risk of unintended pregnancy and childbearing or of contracting an STI.
U.S. Teenage Birth Rate Decline
Description: This data brief documents the decline of teenage childbearing to a historic low in 2009. Rates fell significantly for younger and older teens and for all racial/ethnic groups.
What Parents Need to Know About Self-Injury in Adolescents
Author: Whitlock, Janis (5 more by this author)
Description: The increase in the number of youth who self-injure is alarming for adults who work with or parent youth. Associated mainly with the term "cutting", self-injury can also include behaviors such as carving, burning, scratching, punching oneself or other objects, and bone breaking. This workshop summarized what is known about the prevalence and nature of self-injurious behavior in the general youth population, and about how the behavior may be spreading. It included results from a New York State study on self-injury in schools and recommendations for detecting, intervening, and preventing it.
With One Voice 2007: America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy
Description: This research summarizes the results of a survey of teens and their views on pregnancy and sexual relationships.
Youth focused relationships and marriage education
Description: This article addresses the value of romantic relationships education for adolescents, and offers an example of a youth-focused relationships education curriculum. A summary of key findings from the first year of a multi-year curriculum evaluation study is provided.