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    Friday, 08 January 2010

    by Meghan Rapp, Manager, State Strategies  

     

    For the last three years, state sex education leaders have gathered in Washington, DC at the State Summit to strategize with national organizations about ways to pass comprehensive sex education policies at the state and national level. Much of these efforts had been directed at eliminating funding for abstinence-only programs, but this year, it was a new day in sex education and there was cause to celebrate during the conference – the President proposed eliminating federal abstinence-only funds from his budget. (And, as we have recently learned, Congress has followed this lead by keeping the funds out of the omnibus appropriations bill.)

     

Recent Research for the Week of 1/4/2010

by Mary Seymour, Library and Research Intern

This week's new research includes:

  • an analysis of a curriculum to teach young people about healthy relationships
  • new articles about factors affecting teen childbearing and contraceptive use
  • a study in juveniles who commit sex offenses against minors, and
  • a discussion of the mouth and factos that may influence HIV infection.

 


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