Health Initiatives for Youth is a multicultural organization whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of underserved young people through innovative youth leadership, popular education and advocacy, in pursuit of multi-level social change.
ICE CREAM SOCIAL at the Pacific Center! Sept 28th, 3:30- 6:30 pm
Hella ice cream and cute queers
Part of the LOUD Youth Group, for LGBTQQIA youth ages 12-21
BEYOND IDOL is coming!!!!
AUDITIONS are September 22, 2012
Prize Winners in each category will receive:
- $250.00 CASH
- Two Hours of Studio Recording Time in a Professional Studio
- CD Pressing of 25 CDs with Simple Artwork
- Photo Session with Professional Photographer/ CD
- Gift Certificate from Guitar Center
- Professional Video produced by Suga-T
- Hip Hop Classes – New Style Motherlode
Important Dates:
September 10, 2012 – Registration Forms (ages 16 & 17) DUE
September 12, 2012 – Registration Forms (ages 18-24) DUE
September 22, 2012 – AUDITIONS @ Laney College – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
October 9, 2012 – FINALS @ The New Parish – 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Buy Tickets Online»
October 15, 2012 – GALA DINNER @ Oakland Marriott – 6:30 pm Buy Tickets Online»
About:
Beyond Idol will spotlight the talents of current and former foster youth in Alameda County. This event will raise awareness about and funds to support the development and expansion of Beyond Emancipation’s dynamic programs to help youth make safe and healthy choices as they transition out of foster care. Read more»
Youth can audition in four talent categories– You Must Register to Audition»
Finalists will perform for celebrity judges at the Finals/Club Night and the winners will headline a Gala Dinner in October.
Former Alameda County Foster Youth Wanted!
WestCoast Children’s Clinic is currently seeking former Alameda County foster youth (ages 18-21) to become Youth Advocate Fellows in the Youth Advocate Program (YAP)! YAP is an incredibly dynamic 3-year employment program that provides training, on-the-job support, and a unique opportunity for young adults to work in partnership with current foster youth and the Alameda County Department of Children & Family Services to improve outcomes and services through direct advocacy, meaningful policy input, and project implementation.
If you know a young person that is a former foster youth of Alameda County, has a passion for working directly with systems-involved youth, and a commitment to their own professional development and growth, please forward them the attached job description and encourage them to submit their cover letter and resume to careers@westcoastcc.org. We look forward to hearing from them!
Help us launch Oakland’s only Friday night LGBTQIQ youth hangout spot!
Are you an LGBTQIQ- identified young person?
Help us create a new Friday nightdrop-in space in Oaklandfor LGBTQIQ Young people!
We need your opinions!
Come join us for a fun, informal planning session at4 pm on Thursday, September 13th, and earn a $10 gift card- plus snacks, and (most importantly) the chance to create the queer hangout space of your dreams!
1924 Franklin St @ 19th, 3rd floor
Please RSVP to Pike at long@hify.org, or by calling (415) 274. 1970 ext. 0036.
Free 8-Week Psychotherapy Group for LGBTQQ Youth at the Pacific Center
- Depression & Anxiety
- Bullying
- Identity
- Trauma
- Gender
- Cutting/self-harm
- Relationships
- Substance (ab)use
- Family dynamics and abuse
- School pressures
- (and other topics)
Study: Teen access to Plan B uneven
Since 2009 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated that Plan B and other emergency contraceptives be available without a prescription to women age 17 and up. In reality, a new study suggests, a 17-year-old’s access to these drugs can be uncertain.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/health/teen-contraception-access/index.html
How the Right’s Using Women of Color to Shame Abuse Survivors
by Akiba Solomon Monday, April 9 2012, 8:48 AM EST
Since the mid-March madness of those senate judiciary Republicans who voted no on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) because it would extend a few more U-visas to abused immigrant women, cover people in same-sex relationships and enhance funding for community-based programs that directly address people of color, I’ve been suffering from an acute case of cognitive dissonance.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/04/the_problem_with_vawa.html
States with abstinence-only education have higher teen pregnancy rates
BY YURI RESETOVS
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The United States government bet on the wrong program to cut down on teenage pregnancies and birth rates. Numerous studies show that teen pregnancies are highest in states where abstinence-only education is standard. The rates dropped in nearly all states and across all racial and ethnic groups.
Released Tuesday, a report by the National Center for Health Statistics showed that the teenage birth rate for American teenagers fell 9 percent from 2009 to 2010. The average national level is 34.3 teenage births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19. This is the lowest rate in 65 years, since 1946.
Mississippi, again, has the highest rate with 55 births per 1,000 girls, while New Hampshire has the lowest at just under 16 births per 1,000 girls.
Texas Governor Rick Perry defended abstinence education in Texas, saying “it works” while statistics rate it with the third-highest teen pregnancy rates in the country.
Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found that teenagers who received some type of comprehensive sex education were 60 percent less likely to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant, while a federal report showed that abstinence-only programs had “no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence,” reports Amanda Peterson Beadle for ThinkProgress.
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