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Del corazón de los jóvenes: What Latino teens are Saying about Love and Relationships (2008)
Rarely are teens themselves asked to share their thoughts and beliefs about issues that affect them. Del corazón de los jóvenes—which in English roughly translates to “youth speak from the heart”—gives both teens and parents a snapshot of what Latino teens themselves say about relationships. This document is based on findings from a nationally-representative survey of Latino teens and adults, focus groups with Latino teens, and research previously published by The National Campaign.
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Demasiado Joven (2011)
This 5 minute video is an informative, candid, emotionally hopeful, and uplifting look at teen pregnancy in the Latino community, as told by Latino teen parents. It shows how teen pregnancy is connected to other social issues and is a powerful discussion-starter.
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Fathers Too Soon (2000)
In coordination with the Channel One Network, The National Campaign has developed two three-part educational DVDs based on a series originally created and aired on the Channel One Network. The video, "Fathers Too Soon" explore the lives of several teen parents.
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iPlan: Tips from Teens for Teens about Life, Love, and Not Getting Pregnant (2009)
When it comes to sex, teens get tons of advice from adults, but they aren’t often asked to offer their own. Crazy right? So we asked teens from all over the country what they thought about relationships, sex, and pregnancy. Here are the 13 answers and opinions that we heard most often.
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Girl Talk: What High School Senior Girls Have to Say about Sex, Love, and Relationships
The National Campaign and Seventeen magazine have come together to create, Girl Talk: What High School Senior Girls Have to Say about Sex, Love, and Relationships, a new survey polling senior girls about everything from advice to younger girls, to their regrets, to what they really think about sex and relationships.
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Kiss and Tell: What Teens Say About Love, Trust, and Other Relationship Stuff (2007)
Teens tend to get advice on all kinds of issues from parents, teachers, and other adults but rarely are young people themselves asked to describe their own thoughts and beliefs. We hope to balance the equation just a bit with Kiss and Tell, a snapshot of what teens are thinking about love and relationships. This brochure is a compilation of findings taken from a national survey of young people, key themes and quotes that emerged from a survey conducted on The National Campaign website, and from focus group research conducted in 2007 throughout the United States.
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Mothers Too Soon (2000)
In coordination with the Channel One Network, The National Campaign has developed two three-part educational DVDs based on a series originally created and aired on the Channel One Network. This DVD, "Mothers Too Soon", explore the lives of several teen parents and runs for approximately 15 minutes. "Mothers Too Soon" provides a first-hand look at how a teen pregnancy impacts the lives of these teens, their children, and their families.
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Our Story, Our Words: Youth Speak Out on Sex, Love, and Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teens get lots of advice from adults, but they usually aren't asked to offer their own. That's why The National Campaign asked teens growing up in foster care to tell us what they wanted to know about teen pregnancy prevention and what advice they would give to their peers. This handy, magazine-style brochure tells what teens have to say in their own words.
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Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sex in Latino Families: A Guide for Practitioners (2008)
By Vincent Guillamo-Ramos, Ph.D., LCSW and Alida Bouris, MSW
This publication not only assesses available information of parent-teen communication in Latino families, but also pinpoints the research findings that are most useful to practitioners. In addition, the publication gives communication tips for Latino parents in both English and Spanish.
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Parent Power: What Parents Need to Know and Do to Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2001)
Whether they believe it or not, parents have a very important influence on whether their teenagers become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. Parent Power offers good news for parents and those who work with, care for, and write about, young people. It compiles much of what is known about parental influences and offers parents practical things they can do to help their children delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy. The simple and compelling message of Parent Power is that families matter. A lot. (Available in Spanish as, El poder de los padres: Lo que los padres deben saber y hacer para ayudar a prevenir el embarazo en los adolescents.)
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Parents Matter: Tips for Raising Teens (2000)
A joint project of The National Campaign, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Parents Matter makes clear that whether you're concerned about drinking, drugs, violence, trouble in school, smoking, or sex (or all of the above), the best advice for parents is the same: stay closely connect to your teenage sons and daughters.
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Parent's Portal
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Pocket Protector (2011)
Designed for teens, this handy, pocket-sized brochure details the eight most effective and popular methods of birth control available. The colorful brochure is small enough to fit in a pocket and has brief, easy-to-digest language along with a cartoon-style image of each method.
Sold in packs of 25.
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Preventing Teen Pregnancy Through Outreach and Engagement: Tips for Working With Parents (2012)
This tip sheet discusses ways to engage parents, with a focus on the importance of including parents in your plans from the start, the various strategies for engaging parents, and the challenges to working with parents. This publication was made possible by Grant/Cooperative
Agreement Number U88/CCU322139-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.
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Relationship Redux: Tips and Scripts for Talking to Your Kids About Relationships (2009)
Let’s face it, having meaningful conversations with your children about relationships is not for the faint of heart. This short publication provides some thoughts on what to say to your children about relationships
and underscores why it is so important to discuss the topic. We hope that it provides parents with encouragement to get the relationship conversations started. Right away.
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Science Says #8: Parental Influence and Teen Pregnancy (2004)
This Science Says brief makes the case that — even in a culture that bombards young people with conflicting and often-confusing messages about sex and pregnancy — parents remain powerful. This brief compiles much of what is known from research about parental influence and offers parents and others suggestions for how to help children delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy.
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Science Says #25: Parent-Child Communication About Sex and Related Topics (2006)
This Science Says issue brief explores parent-child communication about sex and related issues using data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) 2002. The NSFG is the premier source of national information on teen sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and pregnancy. The NSFG surveys teens aged 15-19 and results are usually reported for this age group. Readers should note, however, that the results reported in this research brief reflect those teens who say they had a conversation with their parents about a particular topic by the time they reached age 18.
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Talking Back: Ten Things Teens Want Adults to Know About Teen Pregnancy (2010)
For 15 years now The National Campaign has asked teens from all over the country a fairly simple question: If you could give your parents or other important adults advice about how to help you and your friends avoid pregnancy, what would it be? Here are the answers we have heard most often.
(Available in Spanish as Los Jóvenes Responden: Diez Cosas Que Desean Que Los Adultos Sepan Sobre El Embarazo En La Adolescenci.)
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Talking to Your Teens About Sex, Love, and Relationships
These videos feature nine teens who tell parents in their own words when to start conversations about sex, how to start them, and what to say. Parents take note: teens want to hear from you about more than just body parts and biology. They want to know that you are there to love and support them and having a conversation about sex is just one more way to provide them with this love and support.
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Ten Tips for Foster Parents (2006)
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen pregnancy. This brief, user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster parents strengthen their relationships with foster youth and how best to communicate about sex, love, and relationships. It reflects input from foster parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
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Ten Tips for Parents To Help Their Children Avoid Teen Pregnancy (2008)
Revised in 2008, this research-based list of practical tips is designed to help parents and adults help the young people in their lives avoid pregnancy and pass safely through adolescence.
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Terms of Engagement: How to Involve Parents in Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (2006)
This publication offers practical advice on how to involve parents in programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
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That's What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception, and Relationships (2010)
To date, much of the research on teen and unplanned pregnancy—its causes and remedies—has focused on girls and women. But the nearly 1.5 million teen girls and single women in their early 20s who find themselves unintentionally pregnant every year don’t get there by themselves. The National Campaign partnered with Seventeen magazine to better understand what guys think about these issues.
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Thinking About Our Future: Latino Teens Speak Out about Teen Pregnancy (2009)
When it comes to relationships, sex, contraception, and teen pregnancy, teens are seldom asked to offer their own thoughts and advice. Many Latino teens say they rarely see or hear themselves in messages and materials designed to prevent teen pregnancy. Thinking About Our Future—a pamphlet created by The National Campaign in partnership with the Pathways/Senderos Center, puts the voice of Latino teens front and center. The pamphlet is intended to provide insight into what Latino youth are saying about teen pregnancy and related issues and highlights the ideas and experiences of Latino teens enrolled in the Pathways/Senderos Center.
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Toward a Common Future: Latino Teens and Adults Speak Out About Teen Pregnancy (2009)
Given the high rates of Latina teen pregnancy and the incredible diversity of the Latino community, many researchers and service providers have identified a need for more specific information on the many subgroups that compose the Latino population to better address the needs of the community. For this and other reasons, The National Campaign and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) commissioned this nationally representative survey of Latino youth and adults.
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Voices Heard: Latino Adults and Teens Speak Up About Teen Pregnancy (2007)
Teen pregnancy and birth rates among all teens have declined by about one-third since the early 1990s. Even so, the Latino teen pregnancy rate is almost twice the national average and has declined about half as fast as the national rate according to a summary analysis prepared by The National Campaign.
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What Research Tells Us About Latino Parenting Practices and their Relationship to Youth Sexual Behavior (2008)
By Michele Allen, MD, MS, Maria Veronica Svetaz, MD, MPH, Rachel Hardeman, MPH, and Michael D. Resnick, Ph.D.
This second research review examining Latino parent-teen communication describes research assessing the ways that Latino parents’ values, beliefs, and parenting practices shape their adolescent children’s sexual behaviors.
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Why It Matters: Teen Childbearing, Single Parenthood, and Father Involvement
Reducing teen pregnancy can improve child wellbeing by increasing the chances that children are born into two-parent
families and, in particular, families with married parents.
Although teens account for a minority of non-marital births overall, the teen years are frequently a time when unmarried families are first formed—a strong rationale for focusing on teens in any broad effort to strengthen families. Reducing teen pregnancy also increases the odds that young adults are in healthy relationships when they start a family
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