Sexuality

Dr. Michele Van Vranken, a physician at TAMS

Keeping it confidential: Many teens lack access to contraceptive services and mental health care

By Grace Pastoor

Kristin Makin, 25, wanted to get medical care without her parents finding out when she was a sexually active minor. She needed access to birth control in a confidential and teen-friendly setting.

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Salud spoken here: Lake Street clinic serves Latino teens and parents

By Erika Roedl of South High School

After Sarai Hernandez-Ramirez had her son Brian two years ago, her mother expected her to quit school and stay home to care for him. But staff who run the Aqui para Ti program at Hennepin East Lake Clinic want Sarai back in school.

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Stealth attack: Minnesota’s most common STI often has no symptoms

By Allison Wang of St. Paul Academy

Curing chlamydia takes just one dose of an antibiotic, but it’s hard to cure Minnesota’s most common sexually transmitted infection when more than three of four victims don’t know they have it.

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Mixed message: Minnesota teens smoke and drink less, but are fatter and more likely to be hurt by guns

By Abby Grosse of Mounds View High School

The concept of health goes a lot deeper than how many fruits and vegetables a person eats each day.

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Teen health stories - June journalism camp

ThreeSixty's Intermediate Journalism Camp investigates teen health

In June 2010, 13 teens from all corners of the Twin Cities arrived at the University of St. Thomas and spent two weeks living, learning and doing great journalism.

Seven students produced articles while six others produced videos. All their work addresses the topic of teens and health.

Teen pregnancy on rise after 15 years of decline

By Ariel Nash

A baby means love.

Dora Rosales, 19, grew up thinking her mother never liked her, much less loved her. Her father died from AIDS and having no where else to go, she turned to the only source of love coming her way – her boyfriend.

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October Your Turn winners

By Twin Cities teens

The winner of the $100 prize for Your Turn’s October contest is Luis Romero, 16, Humboldt Senior High. Congrats, Luis! The $25 runner-up prizes go to two anonymous writers, and Rachel Mosca, 15, Humboldt and Sparkle Jones, 17, Humboldt.

Teen sex

By Luis Romero

I’m walking to my classroom and I see a boy and a girl holding hands. I walk into the classroom and see notes being passed around decorated with hearts and “ILYs”. I’m at the cafeteria and I hear a group of girls talking about how they are on the pill. I continue walking and overhear a group of boys talking about how they have condoms. At the end of the day I’m walking to my bus stop and see people selling weed, smoking, and making out.

Learning, having good grades, and doing all your work isn’t as half as important as being in a relationship and getting “laid.”

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Teens at Central talk about their clinic

By ThreeSixty staff

Central Senior High School in Saint Paul has had a sexual reproductive clinic, Health Start, since 1976, said Tonja Schuster, a medical assistant at the clinic. Last year, out of a student body of 2,100 teens, about 1,000 of them visited the clinic, she said. Students at Central share their thoughts on how the clinic at their school affects the student body and the controversy in general about housing clinics in public schools.

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Clinic needed to protect students

By Katy Combs, a senior at Hopkins High School and co-editor-in-chief of "The Royal Page"

For the first time in recorded history at Hopkins High School, more than of the twelfth grade students reported being sexually active, according to the 2007 Minnesota Student Survey.

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Clinic would be message of low expectations for teens

By Rebekah Cornish, a senior at Hopkins High School

Allowing a teen clinic to operate inside a school only promotes sex to teenagers, and it becomes almost expected that women in school will be sexually active. Allowing a teen clinic to operate inside a school only promotes sex to teenagers, and it becomes almost expected that women in school will be sexually active.

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