This five-part tutorial illustrates how youth supporting professions can use the “Helping Young People Choose the Birth Control Method Right for Them” resource. It also summarizes what we know about factors that influence young people’s choice of birth control methods and provides information about different types of birth control.
Activate developed this booklet to help youth-supporting professionals empower these
young people to choose the birth control method that is right for them.
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.
This document briefly reviews gender and sexual identities and provides foundational knowledge and key terms specific to working with LGBTQ+ youth.
This resource is designed for youth-supporting professionals—especially case managers—who provide direct care services to young people who experience the child welfare or justice systems, homelessness, or disconnection from school and work. (Throughout this resource, we refer to this group of youth simply as “young people.”) Case managers are critical gatekeepers to information about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for these young people and are responsible for making referrals and helping them access SRH services and resources.
This tip sheet provides youth-supporting professionals with seven tangible recommendations to promote effective and open conversations about sexual and reproductive health with young people, especially youth who are in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.