Working with Diverse Communities Update

Summer Greetings from JSI!

In light of recent questions we have received from grantees on working with LGBTQ youth and youth with developmental disabilities, we wanted to share with you this excellent resource from Oregon Health Authority and Pathways to Positive Futures. It includes research briefs on sexual health disparities experienced by seven subpopulations of disenfranchised youth, including youth in corrections, youth with developmental disabilities, youth in foster care, homeless youth, LGBTQ youth, youth with mental health conditions and youth who have experienced sexual abuse.

If you are interested in technical assistance related to engaging disenfranchised youth in teen pregnancy prevention programs, please contact JSI.

For more tools and resources on working with

diverse communities, visit our website.

This update is published by JSI Research & Training Institute's Working with Diverse Communities Component, part of the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Integrating Services, Programs, and Strategies Through Community-wide Initiatives project, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH), Office of Adolescent Health (OAH)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the President's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI).