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March 2005 update on new publications, actions you can take, and more!
Advocates for Youth's e-News Update
National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
May 2005 is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. So, start planning today! Advocates for Youth recently updated its National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (NTPPM) Planning Guidebook. The guidebook provides strategic tips and examples to help local communities plan and implement activities for NTPPM. It also includes fact sheets, guidance for involving youth and working with the media, and sample forms.
The Media Project Invites You to Take P.A.R.T.
This month The Media Project, a program of Advocates for Youth, launched Take P.A.R.T. (Positive Action for Responsible Television). Take P.A.R.T. provides you, an important member of the television viewing audience, with an opportunity to let broadcasters and the FCC know that you applaud their efforts to depict adolescent sexual health in an honest, accurate, and responsible manner. Take P.A.R.T. offers positive reinforcement to the creative industry and gives a voice to a community that understands the power of entertainment and its effects on the social attitudes and behaviors of young people.
The Take P.A.R.T. action alert for March 2005 recognizes ER and One Tree Hill for their sensitive portrayals of sexual orientation. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth face significant societal challenges to leading happy and healthy lives. Given the recent, homophobic legislation that passed in 11 states and the omission of the needs of GLBT youth in federally funded, abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, this Take P.A.R.T. action alert encourages you to recognize ER and One Tree Hill by writing to the broadcasters and the FCC to express your support of their programming.
- The action alerts have expired.
The Responsible Education About Life Act (the REAL Act)
On February 10, 2005, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced the Responsible Education About Life Act (the REAL Act). The REAL Act—H.R. 768 and S. 368—will provide funding to states for medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex education in the schools—education that includes information about both abstinence and contraception, from both a values and public health perspective.
To learn more about the REAL Act and to send a letter to your Congressperson to co-sponsor the bill, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/real.htm
You can help Advocates for Youth with a contribution today. To donate, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/donatetoday.htm
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