Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey

In the realm of adolescent sexual health, data collected from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) Survey is widely used to determine grant objectives, education goals, program development, and more. Many organizations like ours and other members of the Collaboration rely on this data, in part, to guide our efforts.  What’s the YRBS for? According […]

A Step Toward Better, More Compassionate Care

A recent update to the CDC’s contraceptive guidelines on pain management for IUD insertion is making waves in the world of sexual and reproductive health. The update offers additional research that supports using various pain management options for IUD insertion. This change reflects a broader movement toward putting patients, including youth, at the center of […]

An assault on efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy

With flimsy justification, and in small type buried in routine documents, the Trump administration has informed 81 local governments and health groups that it will end grants they have received to run teen pregnancy prevention programs, two years before the grants are scheduled to end. The decision is unsettling even by the disquieting standards of this anti-science administration.

Pregnant pause

Teen pregnancy prevention takes center stage with federal funding woes met head on by leadership in the education and medical communities.

Sex ed advocates say #MeToo is a good start

In the months since the New York Times first broke the story about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged decades-long pattern of sexually harassing women, an avalanche of accusations against other powerful men have come to light.