Youth Statistics...and more!

Update from ACT for Youth | October 2024

Featured Resources: Youth Statistics

Youth Statistics

Are you looking for updated stats on teens and young adults? Our "Youth Statistics" section is one of the most popular sections of the ACT for Youth website. Did we leave out the stat you're looking for? Check links and endnotes for rich resources for further information.

U.S. Teen Demographics

Here, find selected stats on gender, race and ethnicity, geographic settings where kids grow up, family income, and homelessness. ACT for Youth.

Visit Youth Stats: Demographics

Youth Stats: Health

How are youth accessing health care? What do the stats say about young people's eating, sleeping, and exercising? This page also covers mental health, violence, and mortality. ACT for Youth.

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Youth Stats: Sexual Health

Here we provide an overview of sexual orientation and behaviors as well as contraception and condom use. Adolescent pregnancy, abortion, birth, and STI rates are also reported. ACT for Youth.

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Youth Stats: Internet & Social Media

Ninety-five percent of teens have access to a digital device. So how exactly are they using their smartphones and other platforms? ACT for Youth.

Visit Youth Stats: Internet & Social Media

Youth Stats: Family Relationships

These statistics focus on aspects of family structure and connectedness. ACT for Youth.

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Research and Resources

Data Brief

National Survey of Children's Health: Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health

This brief presents newly released 2023 data on youth in the United States, with a focus on mental and behavioral health. HRSA Maternal & Child Health.

Report

Parents Under Pressure: U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory

This Advisory calls attention to the importance of parental stress, mental health and well-being, stressors unique to parenting, and the bidirectional relationship between parental mental health and child outcomes. U.S. Surgeon General.

Center Black Youth

20 'Simple Things' to Centre Black Youth Wellbeing

Finding concrete ways to challenge, disrupt, and combat systematic anti-Black racism in our individual practices and organizational policies can be a challenge. YouthREX, an Ontario-based organization supporting the youth sector, gathered ideas on how to move learning to practice on behalf of Black youth. YouthREX.

Tips

Engaging Young People Virtually

Using Zoom in youth programming may have peaked during the pandemic, but connecting virtually is likely here to stay. These tips for engaging youth in online meetings and programs can improve the quality of your interactions. Healthy Teen Network.

Professional Development

Multi-Sector, Community-Based Partnerships as an Intentional Strategy to Advance Health Equity

National Academies

WEBINAR

Thursday, October 24, 2024

12:00-1:30 ET

Free - Open - Registration required

This webinar will feature lessons on what it takes to successfully talk about social and structural drivers of health within communities, as well as key programmatic and policy lessons from around the country from the work of community-driven, multi-sector efforts working to address these issues on the ground.

Domestic Violence 101

New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

VIRTUAL TRAINING

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

12:00-1:00 ET

Free - Open - Registration required

This training is for staff, supervisors and administrators who work in local districts, private nonprofit agencies, municipalities (city, county and state), HRA, ASC and other professionals providing assistance to survivors of gender-based and domestic violence.

National SexEd Conference

The Center for Sex Education

CONFERENCE

December 10-13, 2024

Philadelphia

The Center for Sex Education (CSE) has been hosting an annual Sex Ed Conference since 1985. What started as a one-day conference for New Jersey health educators has grown into the largest conference in the United States that is exclusively devoted to sexuality education. Participants attend from across the nation and many other parts of the world to network and learn best practices in sexuality education, addressing a spectrum of topics, audiences, and ages.

Info and Registration: National Sex Ed Conference

This newsletter was developed with funding provided by the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Perinatal, Reproductive, and Sexual Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the ACT for Youth Center for Community Action and do not necessarily represent the views of the New York State Department of Health.