Action Agenda Strategy Web links

1. Positive community values
2. Comprehensive sexuality education and youth development
3. Abstinence education
4. Contraceptive access
5. Male involvement and leadership
6. Balancing health, safety and legal issues
7. Young-parent services

Strategy 1

Positive community values

• Forty Developmental Assets
  Search Institute's 40 developmental assets are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These assets have the power during critical adolescent years to influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults.

• National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
  Contains statistics (state and national), ideas, and resources about teen pregnancy prevention.

• Jackson County Media Campaign
  Planned Parenthood partnered with the Jackson County Health Department to develop European style television ads promoting parent communication and condom use among sexually active teens.

• Coalition Building and Sustaining
  General tips for building and sustaining a coalition

Strategy 2

Comprehensive sexuality education and youth development

• Oregon's state statute on comprehensive sexuality education in schools

• HIV/AIDS Prevention Education-Oregon Department of Education

• The Alan Guttmacher Institute

• National Association of State Boards of Education

• Advocates for youth

• SEICUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)

• PYD Funding Sources

• National Campaign to prevent teen pregnancy

• Teen Outreach Program

• National Youth Development Information Center

• Youth on Board

• Girls, Inc.

• What Can Schools Do to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

• Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

• Youth Development & Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

• Advocates for youth

• SEICUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)

• Oregon’s PYD Intiative
  Oregon is one of nine states in the third year of a five-year Youth Development State Collaboration Demonstration Project grant to coordinate a comprehensive state-wide effort to incorporate youth development principles and practices at all levels of public and pirvate policy making and program implementation.

• Forty Developmental Assets
  Search Institute's 40 developmental assets are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These assets have the power during critical adolescent years to influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults.

Strategy 3

Abstinence education

• Stop and Think
  Stop and Think is an abstinence-based program that can be presented in one to three classroom periods, encouraging young people to wait until marriage for sex.

• Students Today Aren’t Ready for Sex-STARS Program
  Abstinence program delivered to sixth-and seventh-graders in five classroom sessions by trained teen leaders, accompanied by a classroom facilitator.
  • 2004 STARS evaluation
  • STARS Database - Password required
    Databases for collection of data on the STARS program as implemented though out the schools in Oregon.
  • 2000 Short term impact evaluation (pdf)

• Youth Solutions
  Focuses on abstinence until marriage. Uses the FACTS curriculum and peer dramas.

• "Talk to Them" media campaign

  Sex Can Wait, Talking Can’t. This media campaign is designed to provide a web based resource for parents and guardians to talk to their children about sex. You can go to www.TalkToThem.org for the resources parents need to begin and continue this critical conversation.

  
  

Strategy 4:

Contraceptive access

• Oregon Family Planning Program

Strategy 5:

Male involvement and leadership

Strategy 6:

Balancing health, safety and legal issue

 Strategy 7:

Young-parent services

• Teen and Young Parents
  Helpful national sites specifically for teen and young parents.