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Technical Assistance Tool

Practical tools for professionals working directly with young people: conversation guides, practice tips, checklists, and question-and-answer resources designed to be used in the course of everyday practice.

A Technical Assistance Tool for Helping Youth Navigate Peer Influence

This technical assistance tool describes practical, research-informed strategies that youth-supporting professionals can use to help young people recognize and respond to negative peer influences, strengthen positive peer connections, and make safe decisions related to substance use and sexual activity. 

  • Healthy relationships
  • Pregnancy and parenting
New Technical Assistance Tool

A Practice Guide for Understanding Consent

This guide helps youth-supporting professionals understand and talk about consent, with a focus on young people who have experienced the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, homelessness, or disconnection from school and work.

  • Healthy relationships
  • Consent
Technical Assistance Tool

Crucial Conversations About Healthy Romantic Relationships

This resource focuses on three critical topics related to healthy romantic relationships: laying the foundation for having conversations with youth, conversation starters, and dos and don’ts for having conversations with youth.

  • Talking about sexual and reproductive health
  • Healthy relationships
Technical Assistance Tool