Advocates Updates
- Failed Abstinence-Only Programs Eliminated in 2010 Budget
Statement by James Wagoner on the 2010 Federal Budget - May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (NTPPM)
Start planning your events! - Now Accepting Applications for our Youth Programs
Apply to be a high school or campus organizer!
Publications
New Publication:
Science and Success:
Programs that Work to Prevent
Subsequent Pregnancy Among
Adolescent Mothers (pdf)
- Budget Widens Teen-Pregnancy-Prevention Efforts (The Wall Street Journal)
The President's 2010 budget eliminates most federal funding for abstinence-only sex-education programs.
- New sex position? - Government referral system to point students to condom, Pill dispensers (The Gleaner, Jamaica)
Th referral mechanism that will send students to 'child-friendly health services' where they can access contraceptives.
- White House Begins Effort to Bridge the Divide on Abortion (The Wall Street Journal)
President Barack Obama appears to be trying to make good on his pledge to defuse tensions around polarizing issues.
- Involvement of Parents Key to Prevention (The Augusta Chronicle, GA)
The solution to rising birth rates among teens can be
found at home with their parents and at school with a more comprehensive sex education curriculum.
- Gay marriage law signed in Maine, advances in N.H.(The Boston Globe)
Governor John E. Baldacci of Maine became the first governor in the country to sign a gay marriage bill into
law without being spurred to action by a court decision.
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By James Wagoner, President
Vision is more than rhetoric. It is a set of core values that animate and direct an organization’s external efforts while defining and inspiring its internal culture.
Advocates’ Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® vision has transformed our work over the last ten years. Young people are now at the very center of our programs and policies rather than being cast as mere “end users” of our services. A steadfast organizational commitment to evidence-based public health has been expanded to include a human rights framework for sexual and reproductive health. The concept of responsible sexuality has moved beyond the management of risk factors and disease to include a positive, healthy, and holistic integration of young people’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
A strong vision can also act as a north star when navigating dark and turbulent seas. Faced with an adversarial policy environment, Advocates did not mute its voice or shy away from controversy. It will stay the course because the destination is clear, although (while there is hope) still in the distance. What’s the destination?