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All Resources for Audience: Practitioners

Educators and others who work with youth, whether in school or out of school, full time or part time, will find these resources useful.

Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Describes factors that promote positive peer relations and provides easy-to-use measures for assessing peer relations.

By Terzian, M. 2012

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Website of collected resources including articles, videos, reports, and tools.

By Youth.gov

Fostering School Connectedness: For Teachers and Other School Staff

Fostering School Connectedness: For Teachers and Other School Staff

Strategies and actions teachers and other school staff can take to increase school connectedness.

By CDC DASH 2009

Healthy sexuality: A guide for advocates, counselors and prevention educators

Healthy sexuality: A guide for advocates, counselors and prevention educators

Explains that positive examples of sex and sexuality help youth grow into sexually healthy adults.

By National Sexual Violence Resource Center 2012

Healthy Teen Relationships: Expert Recommendations to Improve Research and Practice on Adolescent Dating Relationships

Healthy Teen Relationships: Expert Recommendations to Improve Research and Practice on Adolescent Dating Relationships
By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2011

Helping Kids Thrive at Home: Search Institute's Newest Study of Developmental Relationships

Helping Kids Thrive at Home: Search Institute's Newest Study of Developmental Relationships

How family relationship quality affects development of youth critical character strengths.

By Pekel, K et al 2015

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.

By Hair, E, Jager, J (Child Trends) 2002

Helping Teens Navigate Peer Relationships Take and Teach Lesson

Helping Teens Navigate Peer Relationships Take and Teach Lesson

Lesson plans for helping teens navigate peer relationships.

By University of Minnesota Extension

Incorporating Strategies for Engaging Young People

Incorporating Strategies for Engaging Young People (Tip Sheet)

Tip sheet for OAH / ACYF / FYSB grantees. Outlines elements of youth engagement and explains why it's important. Includes brief examples from the field of successful techniques.

By OAH 2011

Love is ...

Love is ...

Love is ... is a video compilation, where local teens share their healthy relationship experiences in one extended video and also in four slightly different, separate mini videos.

By Santa Clara Public Health Department 2016

Making the Connections: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Risk by Promoting Healthy Relationships

Making the Connections: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Risk by Promoting Healthy Relationships
By FYSB 2013

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

Overview and statistics for stakeholders, researchers, practitioners Includes state by state data and resources in these topics: Dating and Sexual Relationships, Bullying, LGBT, Dating Violence, Healthy Friendships, Talking With Teens.

Parent-Child Communication Tip Sheet

Parent-Child Communication Tip Sheet

Tip sheet with ideas for practitioners who want to integrate parent-child communication into their program. Reviews what we know about the benefits of strong positive parent-adolescent communication. 

By FYSB 2016

Parenting Style and Parent-Child Connectedness Learning Activity

Parenting Style and Parent-Child Connectedness Learning Activity

Learning activities for parent-child connectedness

By ReCAPP

Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence

Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence

Tip sheet for how to use peer mentoring to improve youth health outcomes

By FYSB 2015

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.

By Roehlkepartain E, et al 2017

School Connectedness Resources

School Connectedness Resources

A variety of concrete resources for school administrators and staff, teachers, and parents to improve a child's feeling that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals—an important protective factor. 

By CDC DASH 2015

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Research summary that concludes programs aimed at preventing teen dating violence or promoting healthy teen relationships more broadly are likely to be most effective if they take into consideration the potential ways in which peers and peer contexts shape teens’ experiences within close relationships.

By Oudekerk B, et al 2014

The Dynamics in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Important for Success in Love — and in Life

The Dynamics in Young Adult Romantic Relationships: Important for Success in Love — and in Life

In this Research Brief, Child Trends used the “Romantic Pair” subsample of a long-term study of adolescent health to describe relationship dynamics among young adults in heterosexual relationships.

By Child Trends 2013

The Exchange

The Exchange

Forum to exchange information on order to advance knowledge, collaboration and partnerships to prep teens for the future.

By FYSB

Using Positive Reinforcement to Increase Connectedness Learning Activity

Using Positive Reinforcement to Increase Connectedness Learning Activity

Learning activities for using positive reinforcement to increase parent-teen (13-19) connectedness.

By ReCAPP

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