Engaging Parents and Caregivers Around Sex Education to Promote Youth Sexual Health
Delivering quality, comprehensive sex education and fostering meaningful partnerships with parents and caregivers supports overall youth health, safety, and development. To aid state leaders in supporting their local education agencies in engaging parents and caregivers around sex education, this product describes barriers that may hinder engagement and shares strategies to help address them.
This resource was prepared for the Leadership Exchange for Adolescent Health Promotion (LEAHP) project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC-DASH) to provide training and support to multi-sector state teams working on adolescent health in schools.
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Rodriguez, Y., & Offiong, A. (2024). Engaging parents and caregivers around sex education to promote youth sexual health. Child Trends. https://www.childtrends.org/publications/parents-caregivers-sex-education-promote-youth-sexual-health
Development of this resource was supported by cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-PS18-1807 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opinions and findings do not necessarily represent the views or official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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