Causes: Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Health, Reproductive Rights
Mission: Advocates for youth champions programs and advocates for policies that recognize young people's rights to honest sexual health information; confidential and affordable sexual health services; & the resources & opportunities necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.
Programs: Youth empowerment: advocates trains thousands of youth activists each year to serve as leaders in the progressive movement. Advocates helps these emerging leaders to improve policy and practice at the local and state levels, centering the health and rights of youth from marginalized communities.
sex education: advocates is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that young people have access to honest and high quality sex education. Advocates' open-source, lgbt-inclusive k-12th grade curriculum, rights, respect, responsbility, is used in more than 50 school districts across the u. S. Reaching more than 2 million students. Advocates partners with two organizations on amaze. Org, an innovative series of animated videos covering pubertyand topics for young people, ages 10-14, theirparents and educators. Advocates is also testing an innovative virtual classroom developed by university of central florida as an inexpensive option to train teachers to implement quality sex education. Staff provides capcacity-building assistance and training for school districts across the country.
comprehensive hiv prevention education: advocates is a long standing leader in the field of youthhiv preventioneducation, and successfully advocated for the addition of gender expression and gender identity questions on the cdc's national youth risk behavior survey; built thecapacity of state education agencies to develop and implement sexual health education to contribute to reductions in hiv infection and other stds among adolescents; worked with local school districts to implement/expand hiv/sti testing and treatment in schools and school-based health centers; adapted and tested two evidence-based hiv/std prevention interventions for black and latino ymsm, and created a toolkit of best practices for mentoring youth living with hiv entering adult care to ensure continuity of care.
Mission: Advocates for youth champions programs and advocates for policies that recognize young people's rights to honest sexual health information; confidential and affordable sexual health services; & the resources & opportunities necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.
Programs: Youth empowerment: advocates trains thousands of youth activists each year to serve as leaders in the progressive movement. Advocates helps these emerging leaders to improve policy and practice at the local and state levels, centering the health and rights of youth from marginalized communities.
sex education: advocates is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that young people have access to honest and high quality sex education. Advocates' open-source, lgbt-inclusive k-12th grade curriculum, rights, respect, responsbility, is used in more than 50 school districts across the u. S. Reaching more than 2 million students. Advocates partners with two organizations on amaze. Org, an innovative series of animated videos covering pubertyand topics for young people, ages 10-14, theirparents and educators. Advocates is also testing an innovative virtual classroom developed by university of central florida as an inexpensive option to train teachers to implement quality sex education. Staff provides capcacity-building assistance and training for school districts across the country.
comprehensive hiv prevention education: advocates is a long standing leader in the field of youthhiv preventioneducation, and successfully advocated for the addition of gender expression and gender identity questions on the cdc's national youth risk behavior survey; built thecapacity of state education agencies to develop and implement sexual health education to contribute to reductions in hiv infection and other stds among adolescents; worked with local school districts to implement/expand hiv/sti testing and treatment in schools and school-based health centers; adapted and tested two evidence-based hiv/std prevention interventions for black and latino ymsm, and created a toolkit of best practices for mentoring youth living with hiv entering adult care to ensure continuity of care.
1325 G St Nw Ste 980, Washington, DC 20005
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Children & Youth
Washington
