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November 2007
YouthResource and GLBTQ Initiative e-News Update
Feature: Affordable housing opportunities for people living with HIV/AIDS and low income families
American political and cultural standards push people into conforming to the ideal of "The American Dream."
This means having a place of residence, creating a home and community for you (and your family) and being financially stable. All of this sounds acceptable as a standard, for most people, and I'm sure all people want this for themselves. For youth the American dream may seem unattainable at first. With laws put in place like the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007 teens, low income young adults and those living with HIV/AIDS may began to see the American dream as an attainable one for themselves.
Unfortunately we don't live in a country that supports the poor and especially not those living with HIV/AIDS; therefore some of these components of the American Dream are beyond our reach. We have been waiting for our elected officials to provide us with a solution to this problem.
Read more at http://www.youthresource.com/advocacy/features/affordablehousing.htm.
THIS MONTH
WORLD AIDS DAY IS DECEMBER 1ST
Twenty-five years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, HIV and AIDS continue to be a dire threat to global public health. More than half of all new HIV infections occur among people ages 25 and under, and almost 11.8 million youth are living with HIV or AIDS. Throughout the world, almost 6,000 youth ages 15 to 24 are infected with HIV each day. Young women are more vulnerable to the HIV epidemic than are young men - 62 percent of infected youth are female.
Meet the 2007- 08 Peer Educators!
Crystallee, Devin, E., Jesse, Julie, Lauren, Marika, Michael, Nick, Nickie, Taryn and Theodora are here to answer your questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual health.
Our online peer education program, YouthResource, offers peer-to-peer support. Through brief bios from peer educators of diverse backgrounds, Web site visitors can select an online peer educator that they would feel comfortable communicating with. Online peer educators answer questions posed by visitors and point them to appropriate resources but online peer educators do not provide medical advice.
Visit http://www.youthresource.com/peer/index.htm.
Announcements
Tell Your Story!
You think about things. Abstinence. Sex. Condoms. Drugs. Monogamy. HIV. Alcohol. Parties. Regrets. Risks. Responsibilities. Choices. Pressures. Down-Low. Boyfriends. Girlfriends. AIDS. The Future. All the risks you take. All the ones you don't. Should you or shouldn't you? Did you or didn't you? You have a story. Real life or fiction. Write it down. Send it in. Your story must be about HIV or AIDS. The characters in your story must be affected in some way by HIV or AIDS.
The HEAR ME PROJECT is again sponsoring its annual HIV/AIDS story writing and video competition. Young people ages 14 to 22 are encouraged to submit their original stories, either real or made up, about vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. The HEAR ME Project has also launched a new video contest that is taking place at the same time as the annual story-writing contest.
Learn more about the contest and enter at http://www.hearmeproject.org.
Contest-Entry Deadline: December 1, 2007 (World AIDS Day).
The winning story will receive a $2500.00 grand prize.
The video story will receive a $1000.00 grand prize.
Request for Proposals
Advocates for Youth seeks to build the capacity of organizations interested in and committed to improving the sexual health of all young people, including GLBTQ youth of color. The Anti-Homophobia Project aims to address issues of homophobia within communities of color and to create safe spaces for GLBTQ youth of color.
Through Advocates' Anti-Homophobia Project, organizations may receive culturally relevant publications and materials on HIV/STI and teen pregnancy prevention programming for GLBTQ youth; strategic technical assistance and training; and a seed grant in the amount of $7,000.
For more information visit the Web site http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/antihomophobia.htm or contact Angel Brown at (202) 419-3420.
The deadline for applications is December 6, 2007. Awards will be announced later in December 2007.
Scenarios USA is looking for writers!
Scenarios USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy and self-expression in underserved youth.
What story do you have to tell? Scenarios USA wants to hear your story about what it means to be masculine. The 2007 topic: "What's the REAL DEAL about Masculinity?"
Please consider applying if you are between the ages of 12-22 and live in:
- New York City, NY;
- Greater Cleveland, OH or;
- The Rio Grande Valley, TX.
Write alone or in a group, a story, play or script of 10 pages or less. and send in your entry by November 28, 2007.
Visit Scenarios USA at at http://www.scenariosusa.org or call toll free 1-866-414-1044.
Creating Change is 20
That's right, it's that time again! The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change Conference is the nation's preeminent political, leadership and skills-building conference for the LGBT movement. During the past two decades, Creating Change has been the place where thousands of committed people have developed and honed their skills, celebrated victories, built community, and been inspired by visionaries of our and other movements for justice and equality.
Join the Task Force in celebrating 20 remarkable years of training activist leaders and nurturing community. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals September 30, 2007. The conference registration deadline is January 15, 2008.
Click here to learn more about Creating Change or register: http://www.thetaskforce.org/events/creating_change
Got questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual health?
Ask one of your peers!
Our online peer education program, YouthResource, offers peer-to-peer support. Through brief bios from peer educators of diverse backgrounds, Web site visitors can select an online peer educator that they would feel comfortable communicating with. Online peer educators answer questions posed by visitors and point them to appropriate resources but online peer educators do not provide medical advice.
Visit http://www.youthresource.com/peer/index.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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