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A Youth Leader's Guide to Building Cultural Competence (Order publication - $10.00)
This resource is designed to help youth leaders meet one of the most difficult challenges of sexuality education in general, and of HIV/AIDS education in particular: working with teens and families who come from backgrounds that are different from your own and from each other's. Those differences can be related to any number of factors, including race or ethnicity, socioeconomic class, religion, gender and sexual orientation. This manual provides a four-step model for working effectively and respectfully with youth from a variety of backgrounds. Community Participation (Transitions) (available online only)
This Transitions focuses on community participation, a movement in the public health field that respects the rights and responsibility of community members—including youth—to diagnose the causes of a community problem and to actively engage in designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies to address the problem. Community participation can be a vital strategy that helps shift the ways in which communities deal with adolescents and their sexual health as community adults partner with young people and with program planners to create appropriate solutions to community problems. Plain Talk / Hablando Claro: A case study of teen pregnancy prevention in Albuquerque’s South Valley (available online only) This case study examines Albequerque’s implementation of Plain Talk, a teen pregnancy prevention program which provides complete and accurate information about sex and sexuality, involves a community’s adults and young people, and strives to improve youth access to condoms and contraception. Youth and their Communities Take Charge to Improve Youth Reproductive and Sexual Health (available online only)
A report on the Burkina Faso project. The overall goal of this project was to improve youth’s sexual and reproductive health through community participation. To this end, Advocates for Youth worked with Mwangaza Action, a Burkinabé nongovernmental organization (NGO), and three youth associations in southern Burkina Faso, building their capacity regarding 1) youth’s reproductive and sexual health and 2) community participation. Together over 1.5 years, the partners mobilized 20 villages to identify priority issues with respect to adolescents’ reproductive and sexual health and strategies to address these priorities. As a result, communities launched interventions that ran for the remaining year and a half of the project Youth Development: Strengthening Prevention Strategies (Issues at a Glance) (Order publication - $2.00)
HIV/STD and pregnancy prevention programs provide many young people with the sexual health knowledge, skills, and services they need; but, many youth still lack the motivation to avoid HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy. By contrast, many youth development programs provide young people with the motivation to achieve a healthy adulthood but do not provide young people with the sexual health knowledge, skills, and services they need to avoid unintended pregnancy or infection with HIV and other STDs. prevention program planners must "connect the dots"—make clear the connections—between effective youth development and effective HIV/STD and pregnancy prevention. This paper outlines six premises for effective youth development programs as well as effective strategies and/or links for HIV/STD and teen pregnancy prevention program planners to consider. Youth Involvement (Transitions) (Order publication - see form for pricing)
This issue provides an in-depth look at how to build effective youth-adult partnerships, discussing barriers and tips to building such partnerships. Activist youth share stories about how they advocate for change within their communities—working to promote honest, open communication about sexuality and to safeguard young people's access to confidential health services. It also announces the launch of Advocates for Youth's Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® campaign.
Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming (Issues at a Glance) (Order publication - $2.00) Research also suggests that programs for youth which are developed through a partnership of youth and adults may be highly effective in building young people's skills and reducing their sexual risk-taking behaviors. Such programs benefit the youth who help to develop them and also have a greater impact on the young people served. This paper outlines the benefits of youth involvement and provides guidelines for effectively involving youth in programs.
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