Press Statements

Advocates for Youth will host its 15th Annual Urban Retreat Youth Leadership Institute from September 11-15 , 2014. Each year over 130 dynamic youth activists from across the nation and…

Written by members of the Advocates for Youth’s Young Women of Color Leadership Council, and Angel Brown, Associate Director, LGBTQ Health and Rights As this country mourns the death of…

We mourn the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen killed by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri this week. No young person’s life should end under such tragic circumstances. Far…

Advocates welcomes the news that Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act has been struck down by a court ruling.  Since the bill was first conceived and drafted, it has been a source of…

By Rachel Cooke, Associate Director of Communications, and Wesley  Dixon, NYHAAD Ambassador. Re-posted courtesy of AIDS.gov April 10, 2014 marked the second annual National Youth HIV & AIDS A…

The Great American Condom Campaign is a youth-led grassroots movement to make the U.S. a sexually healthy nation. Each year, GACC members give out 1,000,000 Trojan Brand condoms on college…

Difference Collages Purpose: To highlight differences among people and show how people who are different on the outside may have similar interests or jobs Age group: Kindergarten Time: 30-40 minutes…

For Immediate Release: July 10, 2014 Contact: Rachel Cooke // 202.419.3420 x45 [email protected] In the wake of the recent Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision, we are pleased that Congre…

by guest writer Fran Moreland Johns “We couldn’t come up with the money,” one weary 19-year-old told me. Accessing a safe abortion for Mandy, this young mother who was already…