Member Organizations
Mission: To ensure that all young people in Mississippi have access to high-quality sex education and youth-friendly healthcare services.
Vision: We envision healthier communities where young people have access to essential knowledge, skills, resources, and support so they may grow into healthy adults and move communities forward.
Vision: We envision healthier communities where young people have access to essential knowledge, skills, resources, and support so they may grow into healthy adults and move communities forward.
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Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon is dedicated to building a strong, healthy community by providing essential health services, education, and advocacy.
Our Vision is a world in which all children are wanted and cared for, all people have equal rights and dignity, sexuality is expressed with honesty, equality, and responsibility, and the decision to have children is private and voluntary.
No matter who you are, how you identify, where you’re from, or who you love, you are welcome here.
Our Vision is a world in which all children are wanted and cared for, all people have equal rights and dignity, sexuality is expressed with honesty, equality, and responsibility, and the decision to have children is private and voluntary.
No matter who you are, how you identify, where you’re from, or who you love, you are welcome here.
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RISE: Healthy for Life provides and promotes responsible, inclusive sexuality education. We destigmatize sex, orientation, identity, prevention, menstruation, and accurate information through education, advocacy, and collaborative systems change.
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The Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health mobilizes youth voices, engages community partners, and informs decision makers to advance sexual health, identities, and rights. MOASH envisions a society that respects and celebrates youth identities, advocacy, and informed choices. MOASH was founded in 2008 by statewide leaders, including professionals from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Education, and other local and statewide organizations that serve adolescent sexual health.
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We envision access to comprehensive sexual health for adolescents throughout Alabama and advance our mission to champion healthy adolescent development through medically accurate and equitable sexual health education and services.
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The Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health is the home to the University of Minnesota's Healthy Youth Development - Prevention Research Center (HYD - PRC), one of the premier sites in the country for adolescent health research. At the HYD - PRC researchers are learning about the best practices for providing adolescents with the necessary skills and opportunities to live healthy and meaningful lives. The HYD - PRC is also dedicated to learning and implementing ways to reduce health disparities that exist among Minnesota's young people.
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The mission of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) is to protect and promote sexual and reproductive health and freedom of choice by providing clinical services, education and advocacy. Our vision is that sexual health is essential to every person's well-being. At PPLM, we envision a future where sexual health is a personal and public health priority.
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Whether it’s teen pregnancy prevention, physical activity or healthy relationships, in our 20+-year history of working with young people, giving them the knowledge, skills and motivation they need to make good, healthy choices is at the heart of our work.
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Health Connected equips young people with information, skills, and support to make thoughtful choices about their relationships and sexual health throughout their lives. We do this through three programs: Youth Services, Provider Services, and Parent Services. All of our programs are based on our nationally-distributed Puberty Talk/Teen Talk curriculum series which integrates 25 years of community partnership and best practices in sexual health education.
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Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) is a leader in reproductive health care, rights, and education in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and western Washington. We provide high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for women, men, and teens. Many of our patients have no other health care available to them. In partnership with our communities, we advocate, educate, and provide health care to support sexual health and wellness for all.
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Whether it is working with youth or adults, the Responsible Sex Education Institute has a variety of programming options that meet our communities’ needs. Our trained sex education experts are skilled at facilitating groups in a variety of settings. Our programs align with national and state sexual health standards and laws. A leader in the sex education field, the Institute ensures its programs empower participants with the knowledge and skills to make responsible decisions with regard to their sexual health.
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Celebrating over 25 years of leadership, EyesOpenIowa is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to providing comprehensive sexual health education and training for educators, youth-serving professionals, and other adults. We specialize in delivering high-quality, medically accurate, and LGBTQ+ inclusive training to professionals across the country, equipping them with the knowledge and tools needed to support adolescents in making informed decisions about their sexual health.
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Planned Parenthood is a respected leader in reproductive and sexual health education in the U.S. We deliver sex education that empowers people to make informed choices and lead healthy, happy lives. Planned Parenthood is proud to provide young people with honest, factual health and relationship information — in classrooms, community centers, and online — to help protect their health and reduce our nation’s alarmingly high rates of unintended teen pregnancies and STDs. Our Planned Parenthood affiliates provide educational programs, training, and outreach to 1.7 million young people and adults every year.
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Answer is a national organization based in the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers University. For nearly 40 years our mission has been to provide and promote unfettered access to comprehensive sex education for young people and the adults who teach them. We envision a nation in which sexuality is accepted as a normal, healthy part of development and every young person’s right to high-quality sex education is fulfilled. Answer meets its mission by developing youth-focused sexual health resources and training teachers to deliver the sex education young people deserve.
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SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change has served as one of the national voices for sex education for 55 years, asserting that sexuality is a fundamental part of being human, one worthy of dignity and respect. SIECUS works to create a world that ensures social justice is inclusive of sexual and reproductive rights. Through policy, advocacy, education, and strategic communications efforts, SIECUS advances sex education as a vehicle for social change—working toward a world where all people can access and enjoy their own sexual and reproductive freedom.
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Advocates for Youth partners with youth leaders, adult allies, and youth-serving organizations to advocate for policies and champion programs that recognize young people’s rights to honest sexual health information; accessible, confidential, and affordable sexual health services; and the resources and opportunities necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth.
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Fact Forward, formerly the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, has led a statewide effort to advocate for teen reproductive health since 1994. Due in part to our work over the past 25 years, the teen birth rate in South Carolina has declined 70%...but there’s still more work to do. STIs are on the rise, and unintended pregnancies among young adults are up.
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ETR envisions a world where all people have the information, skills, and opportunities to lead healthy lives. We are driven by our mission to improve health and increase opportunities for youth, families, and communities. ETR embraces the purposeful inclusion of all people as a means to honor and respect difference, and to elevate the strengths brought by diversity of experience, perspective, and expertise.
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For nearly 50 years, Cardea has strived to improve organizations' abilities to deliver accessible, high quality, culturally proficient, and compassionate services to their clients. We envision communities where all people, especially those who have been most underserved, have equitable access to quality health and human services, and we believe that organizations thrive by integrating principles of social justice and cultural proficiency into all aspects of their work.
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Founded in 1979, Healthy Teen Network fosters a national community where all adolescents and young adults are supported and empowered to thrive. We are a leading national membership organization for adolescent health professionals. We promote better outcomes for adolescents and young adults by advancing social change, cultivating innovation, and strengthening youth-supporting professionals.
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EyesOpenIowa (EOI) is a leading national organization dedicated to adolescent sexual health, rooted in Iowa but with a national reach. Since our founding in 1994 as the state's first teen pregnancy prevention coalition, we've grown into a respected authority in comprehensive sex education, serving a diverse network of over 1,800 agencies, schools, professionals, teens, and parents across the nation.
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Amplify is a Youth Health Collective advancing youth sexual health and well-being through education, collaboration, and advocacy. Amplify leverages the strengths of young people, partner organizations, and trusted adults to provide and strengthen a network of educational, environmental, and social supports leading to positive adolescent sexual health outcomes.
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The Youth Sexual Health Program at Trailhead Institute supports organizations, collaboratives, communities and school districts in increasing access to comprehensive sexual health education for young people using an approach that is collaborative and community-driven.
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Planned Parenthood Mar Monte invests in communities by providing health care and education, and by expanding rights and access for all. Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM) is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the U.S., providing medical and education services to nearly 300,000 people annually at 34 health center locations in mid-California and northern Nevada.
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We develop, evaluate, disseminate, and apply evidence-based best practices in Healthy Youth Development.
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1996, we’re part of a prestigious network of 26 academic research centers that link science to practice through community engagement. Our UMN home is in the Medical School’s Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health.
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Power to Decide is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization that works to ensure all people—no matter who they are, where they live or what their economic status might be—have the power to decide if, when and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child.
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