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 “Your team pulls off an excellent national conference that brought together such a wide range of people from so many parts of the world... This conference is a crucial place for people to exchange ideas and learn new practices that will ultimately change uncountable lives for the better.”
-Carolyn Lehman Author, Strong at the Heart Conference News: The Preliminary Conference Brochure is now available! Click here to download. Healthy Teen Network is pleased to offer scholarship opportunities to attend the conference. Click here for more information. Registration for Healthy Teen Network's 2008 conference is now open! Click here to register online or by mail. Conference schedule/agenda will be available mid-July. Interested in exhibiting at the conference? Please click here to download our 2008 Supporter, Exhibitor & Advertiser Guide. Healthy Teen Network invites your business or organization to reach more than 600 people from the fields of medicine, social work, nursing, family life education, teaching, youth education, program administration, research, and public health. The conference provides options for tabletop exhibits, take-one displays, and advertising in the conference program. This setting gives you the opportunity to attract new buyers, introduce new products, obtain valuable user feedback on your products and/or services and collect market research information. Not able to attend the conference, but would still like to show your support of the work Healthy Teen Network does? Please click here to learn about co-sponsorship opportunities. If you wish to receive updates regarding this conference and those to come, join our email list using the box to the right. Please make sure to check the box for Conference Updates when given the opportunity. Thank you for your interest in this event. Speaking Many Languages features advances in the fields of teen pregnancy, parenting and prevention and offers concrete strategies to increase your ability to serve youth in the 21st Century.
Become part of a network of thousands of professionals who work on behalf of adolescents and their children to reduce incidences of teen pregnancy, promote beneficial decisions regarding sexuality and reproductive health issues, ensure healthy pregnancies, and support teen parents to raise healthy children.
This conference will showcase tools and creative approaches to help you engage teens and young families. You will leave with new sources of support, education and resources for reaching diverse groups of youth. Join us in Albuquerque in October, for a conference that will expand your network, improve your resources, challenge your thinking and provide insight into reaching today’s youth.
| What you can expect to learn: This year's workshops are organized into four tracks: Research/Evaluation, Organization/Coalition Capacity Building, Programs, and Policy/Advocacy.Within those focus areas, workshops are classified according to the following topics: Effects of Interpersonal Violence on Adolescent Sexual & Parenting Behavior, Family Involvement & Engagement, Issues Affecting Science-Based Programs/Practice, Male Involvement in Teen Pregnancy Prevention & Parenting*, Middle School-Aged Youth* Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Sexuality Education, Young Families, Youth Development
* Category of particular interest for the 2008 Healthy Teen Network conference.
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