Activate Center

Talking about sexual and reproductive health

Practical guidance for starting and holding conversations with young people about sexual and reproductive health. Includes conversation guides for difficult subjects, tips for professionals who feel unprepared, and advice on helping youth find care in their own communities.

Conversation Strategies for Talking With Young People About Healthy Relationships

This training provides youth-supporting professionals with information on healthy adolescent relationships and tips for applying this information in practice. The training focuses on key elements of healthy relationships—including communication, consent, shared power, and boundaries/limits—and discusses considerations for navigating youth relationships in the context of technology.

  • Talking about sexual and reproductive health
  • Healthy relationships
New Training

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

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