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A Conceptual Framework for Adolescent Health

This document reflects a unified sense of purpose and a common vision for adolescent health within state public health agencies. more >>

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Adult Communication and Teen Sex: Changing a Community

This final outcome study of the Foundation’s Plain Talk initiative outlines the problems addressed by this initiative, describes the programs and their implementation, discusses the effects of this approach on neighborhood youth, and presents final conclusions. more >>

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AdvoCasey: Article Preprint-Walking the Plain Talk

This report focuses on a community-based initiative to protect sexually active teens, specifically focusing on three neighborhoods in Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Diego, where independent evaluators found strong links between improved adult-youth communication and reductions in pregnancy and STDs. more >>

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Connecting the Dots: How Practitioners Engage Parents, Families, and Youth Around Reproductive and Sexual Health

This report, about adolescent and reproductive health, outlines what clinic-based practitioners are doing to connect with parents and families, to document training and technical assistance needs, and to outline suggestions by practitioners for how to describe parent-family engagement. The document was written in order to engage more practitioners in this work. more >>

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Copy That: Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Whether considering a program for replication or preparing a program for replication by others, a number of key questions must be considered: What is the program intended to accomplish? Is the program effective? What makes it effective? Is the program ready to be replicated? What is the replication plan? This report draws on the replication experiences of three programs: Plain Talk, the Teen Outreach Program, and the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. It provides a brief overview of the primary issues involved in replicating a program to prevent teen pregnancy. more >>

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Engaging Parents and Families in Adolescent and Reproductive Health

This review provides a snapshot of how organizations with different administrative structures and origins, serving different community and youth populations, attempt to engage parents and adult family members to support youth in adolescent and reproductive health. more >>

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Plain Talk Implementation Guide: Tools for Developing Community Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy, STDs, and HIV/AIDS

This Plain Talk implementation guide is designed for community-based organizations interested in developing similar programs, as well as for policymakers interested in an innovative, proven approach to reducing teen pregnancy and developing stronger community bonds. more >>

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Plain Talk Starter Kit: A Practical Guide to Community-based Programming to Reduce Teen Pregnancy, STDs, and HIV/AIDS

This kit provides information about the process that Plain Talk sites used to engage residents and sustain their involvement in a community mobilization campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, STDs and HIV/AIDS. It also provides an overview of activities used to develop and promote Plain Talk messages. more >>

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Plain Talk: Addressing Adolescent Sexuality Through a Community Initiative

This final evaluation report covers the final, three-year implementation period of the Foundation's Plain Talk initiative, a multi-year effort to help communities develop and implement their own plans to protect sexually active youth from pregnancy and disease. more >>

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Plain Talk: The Story of a Community-Based Strategy to Reduce Teen Pregnancy

This publication tells the story of Plain Talk, describing how communities were empowered in Atlanta and San Diego, how residents saw themselves as stakeholders in Seattle, what relevant messages were developed in New Orleans and Hartford, and what lessons were learned overall. more >>

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Priorities, Progress and Promise: A Chartbook on Latino Adolescent Reproductive Health

High adolescent pregnancy and childbearing rates are important issues facing the Latino community. Given the growth of the Latino youth population, it is imperative that we learn how to influence the attitudes and behaviors of Latino teens in ways that reduce their birth rates and ensure their well-being. This chartbook compiles key demographic information about Latino youth that affect their fertility and provides a context for these facts and figures. more >>

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Resident Involvement in Community Change: The Experiences of Two Initiatives

This report looks systematically at the experiences of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Plain Talk Initiative and Public/Private Ventures’ Community Change for Youth Development (CCYD) project in their attempts to implement resident involvement strategies.   more >>

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The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field

This report explores whether there had been a general change or shift in attitudes and beliefs about parental involvement in the adolescent reproductive health field over the past decade, and whether or not Plain Talk had played a role in bringing about that change. The report also covers issues such as access to services and disproportionate rates of pregnancy and STDs among minority populations. more >>

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Walking the Plain Talk: A Guide for Trainers

A manual for training community trainers in the Plain Talk program, this book offers a curriculum of five training units. Information and techniques in the units will help Walkers and Talkers to succeed, and show them how to teach others most effectively. This training manual is a companion piece to the Plain Talk Implementation Guide. more >>

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Walking the Plain Talk: Protecting Sexually Active Teens in Atlanta, New Orleans, and San Diego

This article explains how Casey adapted the principles of clear communication about protection to a neighborhood-scale initiative that engaged a broad range of community adults in receiving and disseminating accurate information about adolescent sexuality and contraceptives. more >>

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