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April 2005
Advocates for Youth's Youth Activist Network Newsletter
Join Our Online Strategy Session on May 4th at 10pm
Join our online strategy session to network with other young activists. May 4th at 10 pm EDT we will have our monthly online AOL Instant Messenger strategy session. This time we'll be talking about ways you can be a great ally to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people. RSVP to jessie@advocatesforyouth.org with your AOL screenname, or instant message AdvocatesJessie, letting him know you want to be on the chat.
Take Positive Action for Responsible Television
Applaud 8 Simple Rules and The Bernie Mac Show for Their Honest, Accurate Depictions of Adolescent Sexual Health on TV
Take P.A.R.T. (Positive Action for Responsible Television) 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 April 2005 recognizes 8 Simple Rules and The Bernie Mac Show for their honest, accurate depictions of adolescent sexual health on TV. Write to the broadcasters and the FCC to express your support of their programming.
- 8 Simple Rules' "The After Party" showed the power of straight youth to offer compassion and raise awareness of gay and lesbian youth. This alert is no longer active.
- The Bernie Mac Show's "Manchild in Vanessaland" showed the power of an adult's talking about dating, personal responsibility, and values with a teen he cares about. Let the broadcasters and the FCC know you support The Bernie Mac Show. This alert is no longer active.
We Are Recruiting for Regional Coordinators
Interested in helping young people advocate for reproductive and sexual health rights in their communities? Interested in facilitating campus activism for emergency contraception, GLBT rights, or comprehensive sex education? Do you feel you have the skills to recruit and lead leaders at high schools, colleges, and universities across the country? Apply to be a volunteer regional coordinator for the Youth Activist Network. Our Youth Activist Network is a network of over 15,000 young people across the country working to recruit college students to join Advocate's campaigns on sexual and reproductive health and to coordinate people who are already on board. If you're interested, send a letter detailing your experience and why you're interested to jessie@advocatesforyouth.org
We Need Your Help in Spreading the Word about Emergency Contraception
Advocates for Youth urgently needs your help to increase young women’s access to emergency contraception (EC), a method of preventing pregnancy after sex. Women who are at risk of pregnancy (whether the risk is due to rape, contraceptive failure, or unprotected sex) have the right to prevent unintended pregnancy. All women, including teens, have the right to use EC. No woman, of any age, should have to face a pregnancy she doesn’t want when a remedy exists to prevent pregnancy after sex.
Advocates for Youth is asking YOU to help by spreading the word about our EC, and more specifically about Advocates’ My Voice Counts! Emergency Contraception campaign, to your peers and to other youth-serving professionals. Please help us by:
- Posting a link to the e-PSA on your Web site. The e-PSA is online at http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/ec/
- Featuring the My Voice Counts! Emergency Contraception campaign in your newsletter (electronic or hard copy)
- Sending the e-mail created for the campaign to your listserv(s) and to your friends and colleagues
To receive the e-mail or any other information you need to help us get the word out, please contact Tamarah at 202.419.3420 or tamarah@advocatesforyouth.org
Job Opening at Advocates for Youth: Program Associate, GLBT Initiatives
Advocates for Youth works to provide sexual health information and to reduce isolation among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) young people. Advocates for Youth conducts an online intervention by and for GLBT youth, produces information and materials for youth service providers, conducts trainings and workshops around GLBT sensitivity issues; and develops advocacy campaigns which are inclusive of GLBT youth issues.
Advocates for Youth seeks a Program Associate for GLBT Initiatives to expand and deepen Advocates’ work on GLBT youth issues and sexual health. Activities will include expanding, developing, and maintaining internet interventions for GLBT youth and youth service providers; developing material for the online interventions; recruiting, training, and supervising online peer educators; assisting with an electronic youth activist campaign around GLBT advocacy issues; and conducting workshops and trainings for local, regional and national audiences.
For more information, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/employment.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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