May 2006

Join Advocates for Youth's High School Organizer Team or Campus Organizing Team for School Year '08-'09!

Find out more about these exciting opportunities!

Feel passionate about your right to accurate and complete information about reproductive and sexual health? Concerned about censorship? Looking to become more engaged in student activism? Interested in organizing for comprehensive sex education in schools?

Become a High School Organizer!

High School Organizers are activists, advocates, and spokespeople, fighting for comprehensive sex education to be taught in their schools and for the end of censorship.

The goals of the AFY High School Organizers are to

1. Secure comprehensive sex education in their high schools.
2. Engage other students in activism on sexual health issues.
3. Increase community awareness of the importance of comprehensive sex education.
4. Educate the media about the importance of comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention.

High School Organizers work with Advocates for Youth's staff to ensure that their high school provides comprehensive sex education. The High School Organizers also work with AFY to advocate for comprehensive sex education with local, state and federal policy makers and conduct media outreach. Advocates for Youth provides the High School Organizers with training on advocacy, media relations, and public policy as well as $200 stipends each semester. Advocates for Youth also invites each High School Organizer to the Urban Retreat, our annual youth organizing conference. This year’s Urban Retreat will be held in Washington, D.C. September 12-15, 2008. All expenses for the Urban Retreat are paid by Advocates for Youth.

Requirements

High School Organizers must:

• Attend a U.S. high school that does not teach comprehensive sex education.
• Support the mission of Advocates for Youth.
• Be willing to commit to the time to work on the various activities.

Find out more information about the High School Organizer Team!
Download an application and submit to sarah@advocatesforyouth.org.

Applications are due by Thursday, May 30, 2008! Notification on applications will be given by Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

Become a Member of the Campus Organizing Team!

Through the Campus Organizing Team, Advocates for Youth partners with student organizations on college campuses to fight for honest sex education. Members of the partner groups serve as activists, advocates, and spokespeople on issues of adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Advocates for Youth provides advocacy and media training, ongoing technical support, and a $400 stipend each semester to partner student groups. Advocates for Youth also invites partner groups to send two representatives to the Urban Retreat, our annual youth organizing conference. This year's Urban Retreat will be held in Washington, DC September 12-15, 2008. All expenses for the Urban Retreat are paid by Advocates for Youth.

The goals of the AFY Campus Organizing Team are to:

1. Engage students in activism on reproductive and sexual health issues.
2. Support organizing efforts on college campuses around the country.
3. Increase public awareness of the importance of comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention.
4. Educate the media about comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention.
5. Build support among U.S. policy makers for comprehensive sex education and HIV prevention.

The Campus Organizing Team student groups work with the staff of the Youth Activist Network, running Advocates for Youth's Rights Respect Responsibility® Keep it REAL Campaign on their campus and in their local area.

The Keep it REAL Campaign focuses on securing comprehensive sex education in the United States that is science-based, medically accurate, and age appropriate - education that teaches both abstinence and contraception. You can find out more about this campaign at http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/youth/advocacy/yan/sexeducation/index.htm.

Requirements

Student groups interested in joining the Campus Organizing Team must:

• Be based at a U.S. college or university
• Support the mission of Advocates for Youth
• Be willing to commit to the responsibilities of actively participating on the Campus Organizing Team.

Find out more about the Campus Organizing Team!

Download an application now and submit to sarah@advocatesforyouth.org.

Applications are due by Thursday, May 30, 2008! Notification on applications will be given by Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

You can help Advocates for Youth with a contribution today. To donate, visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/donatetoday.htm