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Focus Areas
Building on its 26-year history, Healthy Teen Network
continues to emphasize best practices and skills-development opportunities that
draw upon science-based principles and the most recent findings in our field. HTN is seeking presentations and hands-on workshops that develop transferable skills among conference participants in the following four focus areas:
1) RESEARCH/EVALUATION
2) POLICY/ADVOCACY
3) PROGRAMS
4) ORGANIZATIONAL & COALITION CAPACITY BUILDING
Within each of the four focus areas, the HTN conference will emphasize the following subcategories:
Pregnancy Prevention/Sexuality Education
 | Comprehensive approaches to sexuality education: strategies and outcomes |
| Evidence-based sexuality education: program evaluations and outcomes |
| Reproductive health issues including HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, emergency contraception, emerging methods of contraception, and others |
| Inclusion of topics for and about sexual minorities in program curricula |
| Reduction of racial, cultural and ethnic disparities in reproductive health policy, services and outcomes |
| Policy implications of federal legislation on community and state efforts to improve sexuality education and reproductive services |
| Efficacy of school-based health centers in meeting the educational and health needs of sexually active adolescents |
Young Families (Teen Parents and their Children)
| Identify necessary support systems and how communities can create them |
| Early intervention strategies for the children of teen parents: ensuring that they get the special assistance they need |
| Early learning initiatives and the children of teen parents: giving teen parents the skills to meet the needs of their children |
| Identify gender and cultural diversity issues for young families. |
| Creating alliances in communities to provide high quality childcare services for the children of teen parents |
| Examine factors associated with successful prevention of repeat pregnancies |
| Identify the opportunities that exist within TANF to improve services to parenting teens |
| Discuss the changes required when TANF reauthorization occurs |
| Identify strategies for successfully moving teen parents from foster care to independent living |
| Identify strategies for improving the living arrangements for teen parents, including the reduction of hopelessness |
| Address how communities can utilize the Workforce Investment Act and other legislation to increase services to teens |
| Identify the impact of mental health issues on the success of the teen parent |
Science-Based Programs/Practice
| Identify models and methodologies which promote science-based programs and practices |
| Examine evaluations of effective programs |
| Discuss effective strategies for promoting science based policy and programs in state and local communities |
| Identify issues affecting replication |
| Address effective methods for promoting positive policies on national, state, and local levels |
| Examine new research involving teen pregnancy and prevention programs |
Family Involvement and Engagement
| Identify effective strategies for strengthening family support for the pregnant and parenting teen |
| Identify strategies that effectively involve the parents of teens in greater shared decision-making about their teens' reproductive health needs |
| Clarify the legal requirements for parental notification when teens are involved in making reproductive decisions |
| Examine factors that increase the involvement of families in the community and school district’s decisions regarding sexuality education |
| Identify cultural factors that affect the community in providing sexuality-related education |
| Address relationship skills and other barriers that affect teen/parent communication |
Male Involvement
| Examine male pregnancy prevention strategies: ideology, technology and reality |
| Redefine gender differences: biology, psychology, and socialization as factors in parenting |
| Explore the impact of culture on the reproductive and parenting decisions of young men |
| Address strategies for engaging teen fathers in the lives of their children |
| Explore the impact of marriage in the reproductive decisions of teens and teen parents |
| Young fathers and TANF: examine the policy implications |
State and Local Coalitions
| Identify strategies used by successful coalitions to ensure organizational and program sustainability |
| Explore coalitions’ use of science-based strategies to successfully prevent early pregnancies, and the spread of STIs and HIV/AIDS among adolescents |
| Examine strategies that help make coalitions successful advocates for adolescent reproductive health
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| Examine effective non-profit management practices, including board development, financial management, and fundraising |
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