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Transitions
Volume 14, No. 1,
October 2001
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Rights. Respect.
Responsibility.® Advocates
for Youth Launches the Campaign
Advocates for Youth envisions a society
where sexuality is treated as a normal, healthy, positive
aspect of each person's life. In such a society,
teenagers' sexual development will be recognized as natural
and valuable. Young people will be considered partners
in solving problems that affect
them and adults will share—rather than censor—knowledge and
information about sexuality.
In such a society, parents will play an essential role in helping young
people to make healthy, responsible choices. Communication and partnership
within the family will be the norm. Communities will fulfill their responsibilities,
providing young people with a secure stake in the future and the information
and services they need to protect their health and save their lives.
Advocates firmly believes that such a society will not face the three
million new sexually transmitted infections among teens, the 6,000 new
cases of HIV infection among those ages 13 to 24, or the more than 800,000
teenage pregnancies each year that currently occur in the United States.
Adults will respect and support youth's right to act responsibly.
Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® These
are the tenets that will animate such a society. The 3Rs are the foundation
of Advocates for Youth's new campaign that will
begin to change the way society views adolescents and their sexual health.
Over the next decade, Advocates for Youth is committed to promoting
the values of Rights, Respect, and Responsibility. Specifically, we will
- Build support for the 3Rs among at least 14,000 youth-serving professionals
and policy makers in at least six states, 10 national organizations,
and four international agencies.
- Instigate progressive shifts in sexual health policy and practice
at the federal level and in at least eight states, 10 national organizations,
and four developing countries.
- Create a My Voice Counts! Advocates network of more than 2,000 young people in
the United States and more than 500 youth in developing countries,
encouraging them to become leaders for improved reproductive and sexual
health policies and services in their communities, states, and nations.
- Promote public understanding of and support for the goals and values
of the 3Rs by reaching out to at least 25 million Americans annually
via the entertainment and news media.
Advocates for Youth will also develop campaign materials
to help you, our partners, spread the 3Rs approach in your
schools, practices, agencies, communities, and families.
Won't you join
us? This fall, we officially launch the Rights. Respect.
Responsibility.® campaign.
Together, we can work to promote honest, open communication
about sexuality, safeguard young people's access to confidential health
services, and
encourage young people to emulate the youth that contributed
to this edition of Transitions—advocates for change within
their communities.
For additional information
on the 3Rs campaign, or to become an organizational
partner in this important initiative, contact Advocates for Youth at
202.419.3420, or visit our Web site, www.RightsRespectResponsibility.org/rrr/.
Transitions (ISSN
1097-1254) © 2001, is a quarterly publication of Advocates for Youth—Helping
young people make safe and responsible decisions about
sex. For permission
to reprint, contact Transitions' editor at 202.419.3420.
Editor: Sue Alford
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