Youth in foster care experience disproportionate rates of abusive relationships, teen
pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Extant research points to the need for …

Compared to other teenagers, young care leavers tend to have poorer sexual/reproductive
and mental health; mental health difficulties may increase risk for poor sexual/reproductive …

Sexual health education has been proven effective in improving adolescent sexual
reproductive health outcomes. System-involved youth, including those in child welfare or …

Nearly all (95%) of US teens have access to a smartphone, and 89% of teens report being
online on a near constant basis or several times per day (Pew Research Center, 2018) …

Girls in foster care are at heightened risk for poor sexual health outcomes compared to their
general population counterparts. Sexual minority girls are also at greater risk for poor sexual …

Adolescents in the child welfare system often face multiple maladaptive experiences that
predispose them to worse sexual health outcomes. This study aims to (1) describe the …

Objective: Despite elevated rates of undesirable sexual and reproductive health (SRH)
outcomes among youth involved in child welfare, caseworkers do not routinely communicate …

Introduction US foster youth have elevated pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection
(STI) rates, yet receive limited sexual health education and intervention. Thus, we sought to …

Youth with commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) histories experience high rates of
unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, with few interventions targeting …

Few measures explicitly assess general youth sexual knowledge in the United States, The
Acquired Sexual Knowledge Questionnaire (ASKQ) was designed to be a practical and …