Action Agenda Strategy Web links
- Positive community values
- Comprehensive sexuality education and youth development
- Abstinence education
- Contraceptive access
- Male involvement and leadership
- Balancing health, safety and legal issues
- 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.
- 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.
Strategy 2
Comprehensive sexuality education and youth development
Comprehensive sexuality education
- SEICUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States)
Positive Youth Development
- 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.
- Youth Solutions
Focuses on abstinence until marriage. Uses the FACTS curriculum and peer dramas.
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"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
Strategy 5:
Male involvement and leadership
Strategy 6:
Balancing health, safety and legal issue
Strategy 7:
Young-parent services
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