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.

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
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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