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Congratulations! After weeks of work — including thousands of emails and more than 100 in-person meetings on Capitol Hill by youth activists from around the country — Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Barbara Lee have officially introduced a bill that would repeal Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program funding.
Now that this bill has been introduced, we need your help to convince your legislators to sign on as cosponsors!
Click here to ask your representatives to cosponsor the Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act of 2010 (HR 6283/S3878) and end funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Take action today!
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by Emily Bridges, Director of Public Information Services
When the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill was passed a month ago, it included language that would effectively eliminate the only dedicated funding stream for school-based HIV prevention. $40 million. Gone.
Instead, the committee, consolidated line items from five areas of work within the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at CDC to create an obesity-related chronic disease prevention funding stream. Consolidating funding streams is oftentimes more helpful to those on the ground: applying for federal funding can take quite a bit of time for staff already stretched thin. However, when funding is consolidated, important line items can be lost.
In this case, federal funds usually allocated by CDC to the Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH) were included in this consolidation.
The outcome is that $40 million in CDC School Health funds used to help states and large urban school districts plan, carry out and evaluate youth HIV prevention programs will be lost.
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by Emily Bridges, Director of Public Information Services
Advocates for Youth joins in mourning Justin Aaberg, Seth Walsh, Billy Lucas, Asher Brown, and Tyler Clementi. Each of these teens committed suicide after bullying related to their being gay, or being perceived as gay. Their deaths highlight the oppression that the vast majority of GLBTQ youth face each day: GLSEN has found that 85 percent of GLBTQ youth experience verbal harassment and 40 percent experience physical harassment in schools.
Many are horrified by homophobic bullying, and may wonder what they can do to help eliminate it. Click through for ways you can contribute to making all GLBTQ youth safe, accepted and valued.
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by Samantha, Amplify Community Editor
Sunday night, Lt. Dan Choi was our closing speaker at this year’s Urban Retreat in D.C. Some of the activists knew Dan’s story and some did not, but after he spoke there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that Lt. Choi, while being an incontrovertible asset to our military, is also one heck of a funny, passionate, caring, charismatic, extraordinary, regular guy. But he is a “regular guy” in the sense that we all hope to be regular. He is himself.
One activist described his words as “feeding her soul,” but when it really comes down to it, when you really break it down, what makes his words so deeply inspirational is not anything special about him, but that they reach and feed the parts of us that make us extraordinary- that make us somebody. They do not make us anything more than we already are. And what a gift it can be to discover and embrace and love our true selves.
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