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Bill
Barker |
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Tuesday,
November 27, 2001 |
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(202)
419-3420 |
Advocates
for Youth to Honor Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project at
National Conference
WASHINGTON,
DC (November 27, 2001) Advocates for Youth will honor the Teen-to-Teen
Sexuality Education Project, a program of the Network for
Family Life Education at Rutgers University, as the winner of the Shining
Star Award for 2001 at an award luncheon on December 3, 2001,
at the Wyndham Hotel in Washington, DC.
The Shining
Star Award was created to acknowledge effective, creative,
replicable, and cutting-edge approaches to dealing with the challenges
of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
The Teen-to-Teen
Sexuality Education Project was created in 1994 to assist with teens'
questions regarding their sexuality and sexual health. The project
combines a mixture of peer educators and sexual health experts to provide
accurate, balanced, and credible information to young people. The chief
vehicle for the project's success has been its newsletter, Sex
Etc.,
which currently serves as a resource to over 600,000 teens and youth
serving professionals across the United.
"The
approach that the Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project has taken
exhibits its respect for young people and allows youth the responsibility
to control their own project," said Barbara Huberman, Director
of Education and Outreach for Advocates for Youth. "Their work
exemplifies the power that youth-adult partnerships can
have and has led to the phenomenal success of the program."
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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to Editors and Producers: For more information or to set up an interview
with adolescent sexuality experts, please contact Bill Barker at (202) 419-3420.
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