Last Friday I had the opportunity to witness an amazing speakout by street youth organized by the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago. This youth organized speakout on Reproductive Justice featured skits, poetry, statements, personal testimony and information sharing. YWEP youth have been involved for years in building the Reproductive Justice movement - speaking out [...]
Meanwhile lots of news items to note the past few weeks about youth in the sex trade and related issues:
In Texas everyone is shocked to learn of a 13 year old possibly recruiting other girls into the sex trade.
A report details research on minors involved in the sex trade in several US cities, here Tampa [...]
A bill has preliminarily passed the Assembly ensuring female sexual assault survivors will be offered emergency contraception at Wisconsin hospitals. Right now many hospitals across the state don’t offer it or even have a supply.
A report from Chapin Hall comparing youth leaving foster care in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin found that youth who had more [...]
The Young Women’s Empowerment Project worked together with the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment to develop a booklet for youth on the issue of Gardasil.
A little while back Gardasil hit the market, newly approved by the FDA, as a vaccine against some types of the human papillomavirus (HPV). A few types of HPV [...]
This week marks the one year anniversary of adults being able to get emergency contraception, also called Plan B, over the counter without a prescription. Now we just need to make it possible for minors to be able to have the same access.
So many great things happening with the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago, it’s hard to know where to begin.
Youth facilitated five amazing workshops at the SisterSong National Conference “Let’s Talk About Sex”, including four that were youth only:
Girls in the Hood (on exploring why girls date gang members and how they can be safer [...]
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