Youth sexual health resources for professionals

Youth-friendly clinic resources:

• New Report: Youth-Friendly Clinic Makeover Project.

• Resources created by CDPHE's youth adviser:

  • Strategies for making clinics more youth-friendly.

  • Ideas for youth-friendly clinic makeovers.

National and state policy considerations:

• Colorado sexuality laws:

  • Consensual sex.

  • Statutory rape.

• National Conference of State Legislatures Teen Pregnancy Prevention.

• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health.

• Freeze Frame 2012: A Snapshot of America’s Teens(National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy).

Public health curriculum considerations:

• Evidence-based programs: Office of Adolescent Health.

• CDC recommendations: Guidelines for Effective School Health Education to Prevent the Spread of AIDS.