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Advocates for Youth is a nonprofit organization and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., United States, dedicated to sexuality education, the prevention of HIV and of sexually transmitted disease, teenage pregnancy prevention, youth access to condoms and contraception (including emergency contraception), equality for LGBT youth, and youth participation.
Advocates for Youth states on their website that a safe-space is "A place where anyone can relax and be fully self-expressed, without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable, unwelcome or challenged on account of biological sex, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, age, or physical or mental ...
Advocates for Youth is a private national nonprofit organization committed to youth intervention programming focused on pregnancy prevention and other issues. The once-popular Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program and The Center to Prevent Youth Violence are two now-closed organizations that were also intervention-oriented, the ...
A youth advocate is a person who acts in the best interests of the youth that they are working with. The overall purpose of a youth advocate is to ensure that youth maintain their human rights while aiding in skill development in all areas of life such as education, health, housing, employment, relationships, etc. A youth advocate aims to ...
The National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) is an American youth-led Civil and political rights organization promoting youth rights, [1] with approximately 10,000 members. [ citation needed ] NYRA promotes the lessening or removing of various legal restrictions that are imposed on young people but not adults, for example, the drinking age ...
NN4Y members work with their neighborhood youth, adults, associations, and regional and state networks of youth workers to provide street-based services, emergency shelter, transitional living programs, counseling, and social, health, educational and job-related services to over 2.5 million youth each year.
InterACT Youth is funded in part by Ms. Foundation and Liberty Hill Foundation. In 2013, the then youth leadership coordinator, [ 31 ] Pidgeon Pagonis , testified for interACT before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about the medical interventions they were subjected to as an intersex child, [ 32 ] alongside Latin Americans Mauro ...
The Freechild Institute for Youth Engagement is a nonprofit organization focused on creating connections between adults and young people through programs, technical assistance, publications, training, and curriculum.