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6.13.08

• Parental notification measure makes California Ballot

• Policy Review: Balancing patients’ access to care and health care professionals’ right to refuse

• Funding Opportunity: Promoting Innovation in Direct Services

• Training: Archived Proposal Writing Webcasts

• Resource: 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Summary

5.30.08

• Grant Opportunities from The National Campaign

• Fact Sheet Examines States' Efforts to Safeguard Adolescents' Confidentiality

• Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections

• Report: Perception That Teens Frequently Substitute Oral Sex for Intercourse a Myth

• Report: Teen Birth Rate Climbing Again in CA

5.16.08

• Teensource.org announces Condom Art Contest

• Now Available: National STD Prevention Conference Audio Recordings and Slides

• Report: National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies Report on Family Turmoil

• Report: Half of Teens Don't Discuss Contraception or STDs with Partners

• Archived Grant Writing Webinars

• Webinar: Counseling Teens on Abstinence and Contraception May 28

• Webinar: Overcoming Challenges with Community Health Status Assessments May 19

• Grants for a Brighter Future for Children and Youth

• In the News: California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

4.14.08

• Training: Interventions that Work and Why: A Two-day Training on Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions for People Living with HIV

• April is STD Awareness month

• Study: Research Shows Yet Again That Comprehensive Sexuality Education is Effective and What Parents Want

• Webinar: Proposal Writing Basics: How to Effectively Respond to Proposal Requests

• CDC Report: Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990–2004

3.20.08

• Webinar: Local Health Department and Juvenile Justice Collaboration for HIV/STI Prevention

• Report: Risky Sexual Behavior of Newly Homeless Youth Varies

• Guide: Assessing Adolescent Reproductive Health for Out-of-School Time Practitioners

• Report: Teens Find the Benefits of Not Having Sex Decline with Age

• Report: Sex Education Linked to Abstinence, Later Initiation of First Sex

• Report: Ways to Promote the Positive Development of Children and Youth

• In the News: State Board of Education adopts sex-education standards

• ABC's Supernanny Looking for Teen Moms

3.11.08

• Teen Dating Violence Webinar: Improving Community Responses to Statutory Sexual Assault

• Training: Beyond MySpace: Keeping Connected with Youth

• In the News: Sex-Transmitted Diseases Afflict 26% of Teen Girls

• Job Announcement: Girls’ Advocate

2.15.08

• Webcast: Innovative HIV/STI Prevention Approaches for Youth at Highest Risk

• Training: Adolescent Reproductive Health—Skills for the Health Educator

• In the News: Arizona is the 16th State to Reject Federal Abstinence-Only Funding

• In the News: HPV-Linked Oral Cancer In Men Increasing

2.6.08

• Training: Adolescent Reproductive Health: Skills for the Health Educator

• Training: Free Online Health Literacy Training for Health Professionals

• Resource: Young Fathers Video and Workshop Guide

• Resource: Adolescent Health Care Access and Utilization Fact Sheet

• Resource: CDC STD Picture Cards Now Available

• Report: 2008’s What Works: Curriculum-Based Programs that Prevent Teen Pregnancy

• Report: Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth

• Opportunity: Seeking Subjects for Adolescent Health Care Video

• Opportunity: Open Meadows Foundation—Women and Girls Grant Program

1.25.08

• Resource: Free Online Access to the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Webcast: Innovative HIV/STI Prevention Approaches for Youth at Highest Risk

• Training: Selecting Effective Behavioral Interventions

• Webinar: Communicating in Adolescence: Building on Strengths While Assessing Risks

• Webinar: Addressing the Needs of Young People Who Inject Drugs

• Report: Teen Pregnancy and Poverty

• News Flash: Hepatitis B Vaccine

1.7.08

• Workshop: Healthy Intimacy

• Webinar: Addressing the Needs of Young People Who Inject Drugs

• YouTube Offers New Nonprofit Program

• In the news: FDA Requires Labeling of Over-the-Counter Contraceptives Containing Nonoxynol-9

• In the News: STD Awareness targets Facebook Users

12.17.07

• SIECUS Releases Community Action Kit

• CDC Offers Free Use of SHPPS and YRBSS Data Files

• Youth-Friendly Pharmacy Initiative

• DVD available of Minor Consent and Confidentiality Training

• Funding Opp: Grants for Young Men

• Funding Opp: Parenting Capacities and Health Outcomes in Youth and Adolescents Grant Programs

• In the News: Long decline in birthrate of teens ends

10.29.07

• Training: Minor Consent and Confidentiality Rights in Adolescent Reproductive Health

• Workshop: Campaign to Unlearn Racism (Spanish language workshop)

• Webinar: Adolescent Involvement in HIV/STI Prevention Programs

• HPV Vaccine Legislation 2007

• Contest: HEAR ME 2007 HIV/AIDS Story Writing and Video Project

• Contest: Fresh Focus Video Project Now Accepting Submissions

• Resource: Engaging Youth… On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community

•  Report: 2007 National Report Card on Women’s Health

•  Job Opp: SCAP hiring a Latino Outreach Worker

10.17.07

• AIDS Alliance Consumer Leadership Corps Training Program—deadline is Friday!

• Forum: Back to the Future: The Impact of the 2007 Federal Abortion Ban

• Report: No Time for Complacency: Fall 2007 Update

• Training: Minor Consent and Confidentiality Rights in Adolescent Reproductive Health

• Teen Peer Court Schedule

• In the News: Biotech patch offers no-risk birth control

• In the News: Birth-Control Foe To Run Office on Family Planning

10.05.07

• Training: Implications of Childhood Sexual Abuse for Females in the Justice System

• Training: How to work more effectively with girls

• Call for Participants in Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Health Issues Initiative

• Online Training: American Academy of Pediatrics Adolescent Sexual Health Training Module

•  In the News: House Passes Stop AIDS in Prison Act

•  In the News: FDA drug proposal would bypass the doctor

•  In the News: Religious groups must offer employees birth control

9.25.07

• Resource: NAHIC Updates Reproductive Health Fact Sheet

• Report: CASA's 2007 Teen Survey Reveals America's Schools Infested with Drugs; Popular Kids at Drug- Infested Schools Much Likelier to Get Drunk and Use Drugs

• Symposium: Exploring Safer Injection Facilities in San Francisco

• Conference: Inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference Focusing on Youth and Technology

• Conference: CSHC Annual Conference 2007: Partners in Guiding Change

• Legislation: The Sexual Health Education Accountability Act- AB 629

• Bi-National Health Week Event

• Job Opp: Girls’ Advocate, Walnut Avenue Women’s Center—Closes 9/28!

9.14.07

• Webinar: Promising Approaches to the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

• Event: Day of Unity 2007

• Report: California Parents’ Preferences and Beliefs Regarding School-Based Sex Education Policy

• Report: What's culture got to do with HIV and AIDS?

• In the News: Suicide rates for 10-19 year-old females and 15-19 year-old males increased significantly in 2004

9.5.07

• El Jóven Noble/Hombres Jóvenes con Palabra training

• Web Seminar: Crystal Meth and HIV Risk Among Latino Gay Men

• Tabling Opportunity: National Latino AIDS Awareness Day event

• 13th Annual LBHI Latino Conference

• SIECUS SexEd Library Available Online

• Fact Sheet: The HPV Vaccine: Background, Coverage & Benefits

• In the News: Sales soar for morning-after pill

• In the News: Sexually transmitted wart virus ups mouth cancers

8.20.07

• Youth Advocacy opportunity with Jóvenes SANOS

• Report on Teen Dating Violence

• In the News: Abortion pill doesn't raise pregnancy risk, study says

• In the News: Types of Alcoholic Beverages Usually Consumed by Students in 9th-12th Grades

• Training: 2 day HIV/AIDS Prevention Certification

8.10.07

• Webinar: HIV Prevention with Latinos Live Satellite Broadcast and Web cast

• Webinar: An Introduction to the Plain Talk Approach to Teen Pregnancy & Teen HIV/STD Prevention

• Webinar: Retaining Clients in HIV Prevention Programs: A Conversation with Ted Duncan, PhD

• Community Health Web cast and Teleconference Web page

• Workshop: Unlearning Racism (in Spanish)

• Funding Opp: HIV/STI Demonstration Sites RFP and Application Now Available

• Funding Opp: Materials Development Grant

• Free Grant Writing Tutorials and Manual for HIV Programs

• New Fact Sheets from the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies

• Job Opening: Senior Project Manager, Strategic Health Communications

• Job Opening: International Policy Director

7.31.07

• Teen Short Films Address Pregnancy, HIV/STI Infection and Sexual Identity

• Reproductive Health Fact Sheet – Adolescents and Young Adults

• New Report Shows that Decline in Teen Sexual Activity is Stalling

• Report Reveals Wide State Variation in Teen Birth Rate

• Grant Opportunity: Make It Your Own Awards

7.20.07

• Teen Success Program

• Resources:

  • The 2007 California County Data Book is now online

  • NACCHO's Toolbox: Because Good Public Health is Worth Sharing

• Volunteer Opportunity: Santa Cruz Juvenile Probation Needs an Advocate

• Audio Conference: New CDC Recommendations for HIV Testing How Has Your Clinic Responded?

• Conferences and Trainings:

  • Adolescent Reproductive Health Training Program

  • California Alliance Concerned with School Aged Parenting and Pregnancy Prevention

  • National Prevention and Health Promotion Summit

  • National HIV Prevention Conference

  • National STD Prevention Conference

7.13.07

• California Education Code re: Sex Ed

• American Teens: Less Sex, More Condoms

• Teleconference Training on Anal Carcinoma and Pap Screening July 19^th!

• Plan B Use Surges, And So Does Controversy

• Egypt officials ban female circumcision

6.27.07

• AudioConference: The Changing Face of Chlamydia

• Health Law Resources:

  • Your Health, Your Rights—a free ACLU pamphlet for teens

  • Understanding Minor Consent in California—A Provider’s Toolkit

• The Camp Recovery Center Adolescent Program

• Free “Spanish for the Workplace” classes

• Study Finds Link Between Condom Use and STDs, Number of Sexual Partners

• CDC Launches Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Website

• Webinar: HIV/AIDS among Women: Maternal and Child Health and HIV/AIDS Partnerships for Prevention, Testing, and Care

• Article: Pharmacy draws fire for stopping the sale of birth control pills

6.15.07

• Training: Thursday the 21st is the last day to register for the STD Overview!

• Training: Materials Development Workshop June 21st!  

• Resource: Educational and Program Resources from the Prevention Training Center  

• Resource: SexEdLibrary: Over one hundred lesson plans in one place  

• Event: Bridging the Gap  

• Report of the APA's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls  

• Conference: Youth, Education & Law: Current Issues, New Directions  

• Webinar: Understanding Transgender Latinas & their HIV Concerns  

6.4.07

• Resource: Advocacy Resource Guides from Healthy Teen Network

• Resource: Tell Me about AIDS  

• Report: Sex Education: The Parent's Perspective  

• In the News: FDA Approves No-Period Birth Control Pill  

• In the News: Brazil to Subsidize Birth Control Pills  

• Training: STD Overview for Non-Clinicians June 29th

5.21.07

• Training: STD Overview for Non-Clinicians

• Survey: Interests of young women with disabilities

• Resource: Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

• Resources: Teens and the Law

  • Your Health, Your Rights

  •  Kids & the Law: An A-Z Guide for Parents (and providers)

  •  TeenHealthRights.org

• In the News: Committee chairman says U.S. government spending for sexual abstinence program will stop

•  Foundation Center Training: Free Day of Fundraising Essentials for Health and Human Services Organizations in Santa Cruz County

5.08.07

• Event: Celebrate Diversity Teen Talent Show—auditions next week!

• In the News: Teacher’s job on the line over ‘tolerance’ column

4.30.07

• Free SCIP Workshop: STD Overview for Non-Clinicians

• Reminder: 2007 SCIP Updates Feedback survey Complete by May 8th!

• Workshop: Campana para Desaprender el Racismo

• Resource: Health Websites for Teens

• Event: 10th Annual Santa Cruz County Queer Youth Leadership Awards

• Report: The report card is in. Abstinence-only fails.

• In the News: Texas Showdown on HPV Vaccine Order

• In the News: Proposal to require STD vaccine for girls is weakened