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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.

Helping Young People Choose the Birth Control Method Right for Them: A Guide for Youth-Supporting Professionals

This guide is a research-informed resource designed for professionals who work with young people who experience the child welfare or justice systems, homelessness, or disconnection from school and work. It is intended to facilitate a conversation that centers young people’s birth control preferences, needs, and priorities. The guidance it offers was informed by research and conversations with young people who have lived expertise and with youth-supporting professionals.

  • Birth control
  • Talking about sexual and reproductive health
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A Research-Based Question and Answer Resource on Sex Trafficking for Youth-Supporting Professionals

This resource provides answers to common questions that youth-supporting professionals may have about sex trafficking. Some of these questions may be of interest to all youth-supporting professionals, regardless of the young people with whom they work. Other questions may be of particular interest to youth-supporting professionals who work with young people who experience the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work.

  • Sexual violence
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A Research-Based Question and Answer Resource on Intimate Partner and Teen Dating Violence for Youth-Supporting Professionals

This resource provides answers to common questions that youth-supporting professionals may have about IPV and TDV. Some of these questions may be of interest to all youth-supporting professionals, regardless of the young people with whom they work. Other questions may be of greater interest to youth-supporting professionals who work with young people who experience the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work.

  • Healthy relationships
  • Sexual violence
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Youth Engagement in Activate

This video showcases young people talking about the benefits and challenges they experience in their work with Activate to translate research to practice.

  • Research translation methods
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