The HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) celebrates National Adolescent Health Month™ (NAHM™) every May! Join OPA to emphasize the importance of building on young people’s strengths and potential, encourage meaningful youth engagement in adolescent health activities, and highlight key topics in adolescent health. During NAHM™, check out OPA’s website and social media for information and resources for engaging with the many facets of adolescent health. We can all come together during this time to support individuals and communities working to create change that benefits young people.
The resources below from the RHNTC can help youth-serving professionals, including those working in Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program settings, and family planning providers to support adolescent health and youth development.
You can also use the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Resources for TPP Program Staff Training List to learn more about adolescent health; save the list to your Training Account and complete at your own pace.
For TPP Program Staff
Ask Me Anything Video Series: Effective Engagement
This video series features TPP grantees talking about what effective engagement looks like for their project. Grantees share tips you could apply to your project’s youth, parent, caregiver, and community engagement activities.
Develop an Elevator Pitch to Engage Caregivers Job Aid
This job aid can help TPP program staff in developing an elevator pitch they can use to compel caregivers to engage in their program.
Engaging Parents and Caregivers in Programs For Teen Healthy Relationships and Sexual Health Tip Sheet
This tip sheet from OPA provides suggestions for how to engage parents, guardians, and caregivers in TPP programs.
Effective Facilitation & Youth Engagement: A Toolkit for Working with Youth
This toolkit is designed to help your TPP project meet its goals of facilitating high-quality group activities that are engaging, equitable, and accessible to all participants. Also available in Spanish.
Ask Me Anything Video Series: Supportive Environments & Services
This video series features TPP grantees talking about how they work to offer adolescent-friendly support services and create safe and supportive environments for the people they serve.
Caring for Yourself and Your Participants: Techniques for Effective Group Facilitation Video Series
This video series provides best practices that people who facilitate sessions with groups of youth, like health educators, can use to take care of themselves and their participants. These videos focus on group facilitation with youth but many of the techniques shared can also be helpful for group sessions with adults.
Engaging Community Partners Job Aid
This job aid offers guidance on developing partnerships with community groups, programs, and organizations that represent various sectors and stakeholders, including those addressing community social, economic, and environmental factors—the social determinants—that affect sexual and reproductive health.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Materials Review Process Webinar
In this recorded webinar, hear from TPP experts who describe the TPP expectation for materials review, where to find resources related to this expectation, and two TPP grantees will share how they have developed and implemented their materials review processes.
Establishing Your TPP Materials Review Process Tip Sheet
This job aid provides tips to help TPP Program staff develop a system for managing the materials review process.
Inspire Change Through Social Media: A Toolkit for OPA TPP Grantees
This social media toolkit provides sample messages and graphics that TPP Program grantees can use to communicate with young people. Also available in Spanish.
Grantee Spotlights
Ensuring Meaningful Youth Engagement for TPP Participants in Greater LA
In this grantee spotlight, learn how youth advisors are helping to shape Teen Inspired, a TPP project in Greater Los Angeles. Youth are heavily involved in everything from program planning and implementation to monitoring.
The Unexpected Power of Simple Outreach
In this grantee spotlight, learn how two TPP Program grantees—Weill Cornell Medicine and New York City Teens Connection—partnered to study the effectiveness of “No Baby No (No Bebé No),” a sex-positive, interactive video game that aims to boost birth control use among Black and Hispanic adolescents.
Centering Youth Voice and Engagement at YMCA Louisville
In this grantee spotlight, learn how YMCA of Greater Louisville developed creative ways to expand youth engagement and elevate youth voices in its TPP20 Tier 1 project.
Using Participatory Research to Uncover Strategies for Meaningful Youth Engagement
In this grantee spotlight, learn how Youth Engagement Network (YEN)—a network formed by Education, Training and Research Associates, a TPP Tier 2 (TPP20) Innovation and Impact Network grantee—employed a participatory research method to help identify engagement strategies that resonate with youth.
For Family Planning Providers
The Healthy Relationship Wheel and Relationship Spectrum
This job aid can help youth-serving professionals to discuss characteristics of healthy relationships and encourage adolescents to consider the characteristics of their own relationships. Also available in Spanish.
Promoting Youth-Friendly Environments in Family Planning Clinics Webinar
This archived webinar introduces health care professionals to elements of an adolescent-centered environment, and outlines key staff and provider behaviors that are essential to providing youth-friendly care.
Promoting Family Planning Services Social Media Toolkit
This social media toolkit provides sample graphics and messages that family planning sites can use to conduct outreach and to communicate with current and potential family planning clients. Content includes affirming and supportive health promotion messages that encourage clients to seek appropriate reproductive health services and take control of their reproductive well-being. Also available in Spanish.
Counseling Adolescent Clients to Encourage Family Participation Video
This 6-minute video shows how to provide counseling that encourages family participation in an adolescent client’s decision to seek family planning services.
Providing Family Planning Services to Adolescents During Uncertain Times: Tips and Strategies
This job aid summarizes insights on how to adapt your family planning program’s services to meet young people’s emerging reproductive health needs during public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grantee Spotlights
Filling the Sexual Health Education Gap in Bozeman, Montana
In this grantee spotlight, learn how Title X grantee Bridgercare is partnering with Big Sky Youth Engagement to fill the sexual health education gap for teens in Bozeman, Montana.
Leveraging School Partnerships to Innovate Family Planning Outreach and Education
In this grantee spotlight, learn how Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, a Title X grantee in the Northern Mariana Islands, sustained outreach and education to adolescents and young adults by partnering with schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing Teen-Friendly Care in Montana
In this grantee spotlight, learn strategies for providing teen-friendly care from Flathead Family Planning, a Title X service site in Montana.
Youth Leaders Inform Adolescent-Responsive Family Planning Services
In this grantee spotlight, read how youth experts helped participants in the RHNTC’s Facilitating Youth Engagement in Title X Programs Peer Learning Group to strengthen both their relationships with adolescent clients and their Title X services overall.
