Transitions: The Rights. Respect. Responsibility.^® Campaign
Volume 14, No. 1, October 2001

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• Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming, a title in Advocates for Youth's series, Issues at a Glance, is available free in English, French, and Spanish at www.advocatesforyouth.org or call 202.419.3420.
• The Activism 2000 Project, founded in 1992 as a private, non-partisan organization, encourages young people to speak up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply about. For more information, visit www.youthactivism.com or call 1.800.KID.POWER.
• The National 4-H Council's Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development provides training and resources, including the Creating Youth Adult Partnerships curriculum. Contact Amy Wiesenbach at 301.961.2894 or http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/CYD/att.
• Youth on Board provides training and resources to help revolutionize the role of young people in society. For more information, visit www.youthonboard.org or call 617.623.9900.
• The Prevention Marketing Initiative produced Youth Involvement, a publication available from the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse at 1.800.458.5231.
• Senior Year is a documentary series, produced by Displaced Films. The 13-part series, premiering in spring 2002 on PBS, gives voice to a group of diverse students in their senior year at Fairfax High in Los Angeles. Designed and managed by Outreach Extensions, the complementary national outreach campaign will provide information and resources to young PBS viewers and encourage them to reach out to and educate their peers. The series explores issues relevant to young people's lives, including diversity, self-esteem, self-sufficiency, sexual orientation, love and dating, sexual and reproductive health, and peer, family, and community relationships.
  
  Senior Year will provide a special Web site, and Advocates for Youth's Web sites will carry features relevant to topics covered in Senior Year as well as resources to help youth find information and/or support online and in their local communities. The goal is to provide a voice for youth.

More Information about Rights. Respect. Responsibility.^®

Each summer, Advocates for Youth sponsors study tours to Europe to explore the policies and programs that positively affect adolescent sexual health outcomes. Study tours include seminars; site visits; interviews with educators, health and social services providers, and media professionals; focus group research with adolescents and parents; and time for cultural exploration in each country. Click here for more information on how to apply for a future study tour.

Information gathered during past study tours is presented in the publications listed below.

European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Behavior & Responsibility examines the roles of family, media, community, public policy, sexuality education, and health care in promoting responsible sexual behavior among teens in the Netherlands, Germany, and France.

Teens & Sex in Europe: A Story of Rights, Respect, & Responsibility, a video that captures youth in Europe and the United States candidly sharing their attitudes toward sexual health.

Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S.—Why the Difference?This six-page fact sheet provides statistical data on adolescent sexual health indicators in four countries.

To order any of the above publications, call 202.419.3420. 

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Transitions (ISSN 1097-1254) © 2001, is a quarterly publication of Advocates for Youth—Helping young people make safe and responsible decisions about sex. For permission to reprint, contact Transitions' editor at 202.419.3420.

Editor: Sue Alford