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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 [...]

Here’s the weekly news round-up.
Recent survey in Canada suggests two-thirds of young women 16-24 aren’t using condoms with sex and forgetting to take the pill accurately too.

This past Saturday was World AIDS Day. This article talks about how racism and government inaction has led to the reality that African Americans who are 13 percent of [...]

Most programs in the U.S. focused on working with youth in the sex trade do not often work with parents of youth. Sure, some might have parents of minors involved to the extent of signing a consent form. And a few try to offer counseling and assistance to parents. Overall though, programs focus on youth.
I’ve [...]

I get this question a lot. And it’s a layered story. I don’t find it easy to describe it in a sentence or two; although I’ve certainly tried when pressed. I’ve been involved in organizations and efforts on women and youth in the sex trade for about 17 years now. I’ll be describing some of [...]

A bit slow this past week. So really only one article of note caught my attention.
Samantha Walker’s suicide at the age of 18 has impacted both Atlanta Georgia where she was taken against her will and became one of many teens involved in the sex trade there and her hometown of Toledo Ohio where she [...]

Early on when I first got involved working with organizations about prostitution some 17 years ago I was taught that one of the roles of someone who cared about youth involved in the sex trade was to uncover when someone was lying about their experience.
Mostly this meant not that I would doubt that they had [...]

Just one news item this week. But it brings to mind bigger questions.
From the Edmonton Sun today, Sex for shelter Here’s a small part below.

Youth workers call them the darkest, most disturbing tales of Edmonton’s housing crunch - girls, sometimes younger than 14, turning tricks on cold winter nights in exchange for shelter. “It’s so [...]

On this week’s news links of note…
Lots of quick action in Philadelphia and supporters around the globe didn’t result in bouncing a sitting judge who refused to see how a young women in the sex trade could be raped. But the discussion and public challenge she received is a strong statement.
In the New York Times [...]

Just a couple of news links this week.
More than 1 in 10 high schools can be described as dropout factories according to a recent report by Johns Hopkins, where no more than 60 percent of students who start as freshmen graduate. Clearly this connects to the sex trade since without a high school education, youth [...]

A couple of positive news items to start out with:
In Washington State, a new effort called Teen Closet will offer stylish clothing for free to teens in foster care. And a statewide meeting happened in Seattle for foster care youth seeking to make a difference on policies that affect them (they already got a few [...]