Advocates’ mission is to partner with young people & their adult allies to champion youth rights to bodily autonomy & build power to transform policies, programs & systems to secure sexual health & equity for all youth. Advocates for Youth (Advocates) envisions a society in which all young people are valued, respected & treated with dignity; sexuality is accepted as a healthy part of being human; & youth sexual development is normalized & embraced. In such a world, all youth & young adults are celebrated for who they are & afforded honest, affirming, inclusive sex education; access to confidential, universal sexual health services; & the economic, educational, & social power to exercise their bodily autonomy & make informed decisions regarding their health & well-being.
titles from this organization
Behind the Counter: Findings from the 2022 Oral Contraceptives Access Survey
Sep 26, 2022
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
Exploring How Disparities in Experiences of Violence and Substance Use Between Transgender and Cisgender Students Differ by Gender Expression
Aug 8, 2022
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
A Call to Action: LGBTQ+ Youth Need Inclusive Sex Education
May 1, 2021
Publisher(s): GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network); Advocates for Youth; Black and Pink; Human Rights Campaign Foundation; SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change; National LGBTQ Task Force; Equality Federation; Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE); Answer; Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Unintended Pregnancy Among Young People in the United States
Nov 9, 2011
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
Reproductive Health Outcomes & Contraceptive Use among U.S. Teens
Apr 21, 2009
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
Science & Success: Programs that Work to Prevent Subsequent Pregnancy among Adolescent Mothers
Apr 15, 2009
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
Community Pathways to Improved Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Dec 1, 2007
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth; Save the Children; CARE; Inter-Agency Working Group; Pathfinder International ; UNFPA
The Impact of Homophobia and Racism on GLBTQ Youth of Color
Jun 1, 2007
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
Adolescent Sexual Health and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Call for Cultural Competency
Nov 1, 2003
Publisher(s): Advocates for Youth
- GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network)
- Save the Children
- CARE
- Black and Pink
- Inter-Agency Working Group
- Pathfinder International
- UNFPA
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation
- SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change
- National LGBTQ Task Force
- Equality Federation
- Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE)
- Answer
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America