Resources & Tools
Get Your Life
A seven-session group-based HIV prevention facilitation guide designed for Black and Latino young men who have sex (YMSM) with men ages 14-19 years old.
Youth Development: Strengthening Prevention Strategies
This document is a guide for adding youth development strategies into sex education and initiatives.
Community Participation Partnering With Youth: A Rights, Respect, Responsibility Paradigm
This document describes the community-based hands-on approach and how to involve youth in dealing with public health issues.
Creating Safer Spaces for LGBTQ Youth
This Toolkit highlights challenges faced by LGBTQ youth, offers insight on how they thrive, and enhances the awareness among healthcare staff, educators, and additional youth-serving professionals about the existing disparities in order to provide safer spaces.
Using Outside Speakers to Provide Sex Education
Administrators, teachers, and school staff may sometimes find that an outside speaker is well-suited to deliver sex education to their students. This approach, however, is not without its own considerations and potential pitfalls. Speakers need to follow district policy, use best
Youth Activist Toolkit
The new Youth Activist Toolkit was developed with youth writers and activists to be a detailed guide to help young people develop a plan, organize a coalition, and define and implement strategies to achieve measurable social impact goals.
Sex Education Collaborative Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education Assessment Tool
This tool is designed as a companion to the Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education (PLSSE) to help identify needs for professional development and/or technical assistance among those who teach or will teach sex education.
Sex Education Collaborative Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education
The goal of these standards is to provide guidance to school administrators and classroom educators about the content, skills, and professional disposition needed to implement sex education effectively. The PLSSE can also help educators stay up-to-date on content and teaching met