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Teen Health Now Event: Online Organizing and Advocacy Training for Youth!

Submitted by teenadvocatedan on March 13, 2010 - 2:50pm
Teen Health Now is a group of young people across the state of North Carolina working towards eliminating federally abstinence-only programs in NC, adopting a comprehensive sex education policy in the state's health curricula, and changing local policy to support comprehensive sex education in communities. We also work t o raise awareness for many other teen reproductive health issues. Part of our goal for this year is to train and mobilize other young people across the state.  We are doing this by hosting free trainings and events for young people! This spring Shelby Knox is coming to Chapel Hill, NC, to speak at a community forum about sex education.  We are also hosting a free, day long training on the topic of online organizing and advocacy at UNC Chapel Hill. This training is on Saturday, March 27 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.   Any youth can attend (you can RSVP to the Facebook event here).

Healthy Youth Act Passes!

Submitted by teenadvocatedan on June 30, 2009 - 10:25pm

Great Op-Ed in the Carrboro Citizen about Sex Education

Submitted by teenadvocatedan on May 15, 2009 - 8:26am

Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina's Paige Johnson wrote a great piece in the Carrboro Citizen about the Healthy Youth Act and comprehensive sex education.

 

You can follow all of their policy/activist efforts on twitter at http://twitter.com/ppcnc.

Comprehensive sex education will equip our children to survive 

One Man. One Woman. Thats Marriage?

Submitted by teenadvocatedan on May 15, 2009 - 8:22am

Originally posted on Amplify: http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/dandaman6007/2009/5/14/NCmarriage

One man. One woman. That’s marriage.

This is the tagline of the conservative North Carolina organization called NC4marrige. They are trying to pass the Defense of Marriage Act, which would protect marriage under the state constitution, making it harder to legalize same-sex marriage in the future. North Carolina is the only southern state that doesn’t have a constitutional same-sex marriage ban in place, which makes it a target for conservative activists and same-sex marriage advocates alike. Basically, these groups tell their supporters that North Carolina could become the next state to legalize gay marriage unless it becomes banned under the constitution.

Advocates for Youth opposes the bill, saying:

Healthy Youth Act will be heard on the House Floor TOMARROW

Submitted by teenadvocatedan on April 14, 2009 - 7:17pm

Cross posted on Amplify

 

The Healthy Youth Act (HB 88) will go to a vote on the house floor tomorrow, and if it passes it will be the most important reproductive rights victory in NC in over 15 years (since the NC legislature introduced abstinence-only in the mid 1990’s.)  The Healthy Youth act has passed three committees (Education, Health, and Appropriations), and this is the FINAL STEP in passing in the state House before it moves to the state senate. 

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