Transitions
Volume 14, No. 3,
April 2002
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Table of Contents
This Transitions focuses
on community participation, a movement in the public
health field that respects the rights and
responsibility of
community members—including youth—to diagnose the
causes of a community problem and to actively engage
in designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies
to address the problem. Community
participation can be a vital strategy that helps shift
the ways in which communities deal with adolescents
and their sexual health as
community adults partner with young people and with
program planners to create appropriate solutions to
community problems.
Resources on Community Participation
Norman J. Building
Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships. Transitions 2001; volume
14, number 1. [www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/transitions/transitions1401_7.htm]
World Bank. The World Bank Participation Sourcebook. Washington, DC: The Bank,
1996. [www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sbpdf.htm]
Inter-American Development Bank. Resource Book on Participation: Washington,
DC: The Bank, [1996?] [www.iadb.org/exr/english/policies/participate/index.htm]
United Nations Development Programme. Empowering
People: A Guide to Participation. New
York, NY: The Programme, 1998.
Howard-Grabman L et al. The WARMI Project: A Participatory Approach to
Improve Maternal and Neonatal
Health: An Implementor's Manual. Arlington,
VA: John Snow, MotherCare,
1994.
Get Involved! Fight for Your Rights: Protect Yourself
Support Honest, Realistic Sex Education!
In April, Advocates
for Youth announced its partnership with the media giant MTV in a yearlong
campaign, Fight for Your Rights: Protect
Yourself, the first-ever mass mobilization of young people
in the United States to fight for their right to responsible, medically
accurate sexual
health information.
Through this campaign, youth will finally have a way to make their voices
heard.
Click here to learn more, to become
an activist, to fight for your rights or phone Advocates for Youth's
Youth Empowerment
Initiatives
at 202.419.3420.
Films by and for
Teens
Scenarios USA is
a program to get teens thinking about their choices and decisions around
important issues that affect their lives, such as HIV/AIDS, unwanted
pregnancy and violence.
Teens, ages 12 to 22, address these issues by writing stories for the
Scenarios contest, What's the Real Deal.
Winners get to make their stories into short films in their hometown,
working with a professional filmmaker and crew. The finished products
are high-quality
short films that educators can use to spark discussion on important
issues. The films have been shown on MTV, PBS and NBC affiliates, Oxygen,
at
film festivals and on the Internet as well as on ABC's World News Tonight and
NPR's On
the Media.
Teenagers in New York City and Laredo, Texas, wrote the two most recent
films released by Scenarios USA. The New York film, From an Objective
Point
of View, tells the story of two best friends who make a pact not
to have sex without consulting the other and whose pact verges on being
broken.
The
result is an honest look at teenage desire. Written by 16-year-old
Janet Aponte, the
film was directed by Jim McKay (Our Song) and Hannah Weyer
(La
Boda) and shot in
Brooklyn.
The Laredo Story is
adapted from an essay written by a 14-year-old girl who feels pressure
regarding "drugs,
alcohol, and doing what it takes to fit in." She decides to
maintain her individuality and to remain abstinent. The film was
written by Samantha
Hernandez,
directed by Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic and Lisa
Picard Is Famous) and shot in the Texas-Mexico border town of
Laredo.
To order, contact Scenarios USA, 110 West 18th Street, 6th
Floor, New York, NY 10011 or phone 646.230.7677.
Transitions (ISSN 1097-1254) © 2002, 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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