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CONTACT:
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Bill
Barker |
| Tuesday,
November 27, 2001 |
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(202)
419-3420 |
Advocates
for Youth to Honor Hartford Action Plan on Infant Health, Inc. at
National Conference
WASHINGTON,
DC (November 27, 2001) Advocates for Youth will honor the Hartford
Action Plan on Infant Health, Inc., as the winner of Supernova
Award for 2001 at an award luncheon on December 3, 2001, at the
Wyndham Hotel in Washington, DC.
The Supernova Award was
created to honor long-term leadership, dedication, vision,
and positive impact as an agent for change in the area of adolescent
sexual and
reproductive health.
The Hartford
Action Plan on Infant Health, Inc., has offered programs
since 1985 that provide the resources necessary to assist
adolescents in making
positive, responsible health decisions. These programs
include "Let's
Talk" and "I Am 4 Real" training, as part of the Action
Plan's innovative "Breaking the Cycle" initiative. The Hartford
Action Plan was instrumental in July 2001 efforts to pass
policy to provide reproductive and preventive health services,
including contraception,
counseling, and testing, for students in the Hartford school
system.
" The
Hartford Action Plan's persistence in advocating for the right of young
people to make their own responsible decisions about their reproductive
health is nothing short of extraordinary," said Barbara Huberman,
Director of Education and Outreach for Advocates for Youth. "Its
program and advocacy work can serve as a lasting template
for other groups in the field."
Advocates
for Youth's 20th Anniversary Conference, Rights. Respect. Responsibility.®:
A New Paradigm for Healthy Adolescent Sexuality, will be held
December 2-4, 2001, in Washington, DC. This three-day learning
opportunity will challenge youth-serving professionals,
sexuality educators, policy
makers, health care providers, and youth themselves to
examine current adolescent reproductive and sexual health
policy and practice and to
embrace a new paradigm—one that affirms adolescent sexual development
as normal and healthy.
Advocates
for Youth is an international, nonprofit organization that works in
the U.S. and the developing world to create programs and support policies
that help young people make safe, responsible decisions about their
sexual and reproductive health.
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