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Supportive Adult Connections, Teen Pregnancy, and Youth Mental Health

This research summary examines the intersections between mental health and teen pregnancy, describes how nonfamilial supportive adults are a well-documented protective factor across multiple aspects of young people’s well-being, and highlights ways youth-supporting professionals can serve in the role of a supportive adult.

  • Healthy relationships
  • Pregnancy and parenting
New Research Summary

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

Exploring the Dual Experiences of Parenting While Being Parented

This summary describes research about young parents and their adult caregivers, with considerations for professionals supporting youth and families who face unique adversities.

  • Healthy relationships
  • Pregnancy and parenting
Research Summary

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

Sexual Cyberbullying Research Summary

This research summary defines various forms of sexual cyberbullying, reports what we know about the prevalence of sexual cyberbullying, discusses factors that increase the risk for or protect youth against sexual cyberbullying, reviews what is known about preventing sexual cyberbullying, and shares information about relevant laws and resources for youth-supporting professionals.

  • Healthy relationships
  • Sexual violence
Research Summary

Seven Dimensions of Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Youth

This brief summarizes available research on seven dimensions of access to sexual and reproductive health care. Our goal is to inform youth-supporting professionals about the complexity of access for youth who have experienced the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work (i.e., opportunity youth).

  • Sexual and reproductive health care
  • Research translation methods
Research Summary

Healthy Romantic Relationships and Youth Well-being

This resource summarizes research and practice literature, provides practice guidance, and describes cultural and systemic considerations associated with three key domains of healthy romantic relationships.

  • Healthy relationships
Research Summary

Opportunity Youth and Sex-based Harassment in the Workplace: A Scan of Research and Resources

Understanding sex-based harassment is an important tool for youth-supporting professionals and can empower opportunity youth as they navigate the workplace. This resource describes how youth-supporting professionals can aid youth. While it is true that youth-supporting professionals may not be able to fully prevent harassment from occurring, they can tailor services and supports to help protect youth—and to help youth protect themselves—by recognizing harassing behaviors and navigating how to address harassment if it does take place.

  • Sexual violence
Research Summary

Key Data for Understanding the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Opportunity Youth

Opportunity youth are young people ages 16 to 24 who are not working nor enrolled in school. They are a diverse group who come from different backgrounds, races/ethnicities, and communities and who have varying strengths, resources, and needs. This infographic highlights key findings from Activate’s analysis of the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of opportunity youth using the National Survey of Family Growth.

  • Sexual and reproductive health care
  • Data, outcomes
Research Summary

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
Technical Assistance Tool

Understanding the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Opportunity Youth

This brief addresses the gap in information about the SRH of opportunity youth by conducting an original analysis of data from the 2011-2019 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), the findings from which are presented in this brief.

  • Sexual and reproductive health care
  • Data, outcomes
Research Summary

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
Technical Assistance Tool

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
Technical Assistance Tool

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
Technical Assistance Tool

Wish List for Creating Resources to Help Youth-Supporting Professionals Address Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

This Wish List of strategies for creating resources for youth-supporting professionals is meant to guide resource developers in the creation of resources for youth-supporting professionals who work on behalf of youth with experience in the child welfare system, the justice system, and/or homelessness and opportunity youth.

  • Sexual and reproductive health care
  • Research translation methods
Research Summary