Today we unite to support people living with #HIV and remember those we’ve lost 🕊️. Together, we can end the HIV epidemic. Learn more: www.unaids.org/en/2025-worl... #WorldAIDSDay #StopHIVTogether @unaids.org
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Check out @thencsh.bsky.social's Own the Awk for tips to turn awkward moments into meaningful connections and improve your love life. Access free scripts, videos, and digital card decks on sexual health and relationships at OwnTheAwk.org!
29.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Use our Foster Friendly Healthcare Toolkit. 🛠️ You'll learn how to support #FosterYouth patients from the waiting room to the examination room.
▶️ rhep.info/4mMvA1G
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26.11.2025 00:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Poor #HealthOutcomes are not the failing of our youth, rather, they’re the failing of complex, intertwined systems that don’t allow us to put youths’ needs at the center of their care experiences.”
—Rebecca Gudeman, Managing Director of Health & Well-being @youthlaw.bsky.social
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26.11.2025 00:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We remember and honor the lives lost to anti-trans violence, and we stand with trans youth who deserve to be safe, affirmed, and loved for who they are.
Read our latest post for Trans Awareness Week:
medium.com/ncyl-news/tr...
20.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. 🏳️⚧️
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Youth Advisory Board – RHEP Foster Youth
Meet the RHEP youth advocates who seek to improve sexual and reproductive health education and services for youth in #FosterCare. 🌟
🔗 fosterreprohealth.org/youth-adviso...
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20.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Equitable access to trauma-informed sexual and reproductive health care and education should be a fundamental right, especially for #FosterYouth who are disproportionately impacted by these issues."
—Abby, a 2025 Youth Advisory Board member
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20.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us at #BeyondTheBench2025 on November 19 at 2PM PT in Los Angeles where NCYL Managing Director of Health and Well-being Rebecca Gudeman will share her expertise on juvenile case file confidentiality and information sharing.
Learn more about the event: courts.ca.gov/beyond-bench...
13.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How do #fosteryouth learn the skills needed to parent their children? Through trial, error & support from unexpected places. 💚
As one youth put it, "There is, unfortunately, not a super conclusive rule book that we have on the best way to do #parenting."
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10.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Letter to My Younger Self – RHEP Foster Youth
Read Jennifer's letter on her experience with Sex Trafficking and how her foster mom created space to comfortably ask & learn about her sexual health
With the support of Planned Parenthood medical providers and “Mama Pat,” Jennifer learned about #consent and how to care for her sexual health.
Read the blog to learn how community & sex education changed Jennifer's life ▶️ fosterreprohealth.org/a-letter-to-... #CSEC #YoungParenting #SexEd
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06.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I didn’t know who to talk to about #sexualhealth education, or even how to have safe sex. I was talked about and laughed at when I asked my aunties and cousins."
–Jennifer, former RHEP Youth Advisory Board member
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06.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is Election Day, LA! Being informed is one of the most powerful ways we can show up for our communities.
Get to the polls and make your voice heard today!
#BWWLA #ElectionDay #CivicEngagement
04.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Still undecided about whether to mail in your ballot or vote in person?🤔 Not to worry — the RHEP Youth Advisory Board compiled a list of #pros and #cons for each. 🌟
#SpecialElection #Vote #CA #Prop50
03.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teen Talk Foster Youth – RHEP Foster Youth
Teen Talk Foster Youth is a free, virtual, community-based sex ed series for youth in California foster care, coordinated by the Reproductive Health Equity Project. This curriculum meets requirements ...
What are the large-scale impacts of our Teen Talk: Foster Youth program?
- Autonomy for Youth in #FosterCare
- Well-Equipped #SocialWorkers
- Skilled Educators
- Confident #Caregivers
- Healthier Communities
Learn more about the free, comprehensive #sexed course ➡️ rhep.info/4olFid0
31.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every advocate’s journey is different. 🌟
Our Federal Advocacy Toolkit for Parents and Caregivers includes safety + well-being resources to support you & your family as you raise your voices for change.
Check it out: youthlaw.org/resources/fe...
11.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"I was just scared to tell people... When I actually got [an abortion] I was just making up stuff in my head... But then, when I did eventually tell my friends, I felt closer to my girlfriends."
—A former foster youth✴️
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28.10.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Newsletters – RHEP Foster Youth
to improve sexual & reproductive healthcare services & resources for youth in care.
Stay in the loop and follow us on social media:
🔹Instagram: @rhep_ca
🔹BlueSky: @rhep-ca.bsky.social
🔹X/Twitter: @RHEP_CA
🔹Newsletter: rhep.info/newsletter
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24.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Reproductive #HealthEquity Project for Foster Youth uplifts the bodily autonomy & healthy sexual development of youth who experience(d) #fostercare. We work with #healthcare professionals, policy experts, caregivers, and (former) foster youth—
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24.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Youth incarceration doesn’t work.
For Youth Justice Action Month , we’re focusing on the power of young people. When youth lead and their voices are heard on youth justice issues, real change and healing can happen.
22.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Youth Advisory Board conceived & created the Top 10 Tips for Healthy Relationships. ❤️ Their goal: to help youth impacted by foster care systems pursue #healthyrelationships with #friends, #family members, and romantic partners.
🔗 Share the guide: rhep.info/4kGtkZ7
23.10.2025 03:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
October 20th is the last day you can register to vote online for the upcoming election. Check out the non-partisan @calmatters 2025 Voter Guide for more information on registration and #Prop50.
🔗 calmatters.org/california-v...
✴️ This flyer was made by our Youth Advisory Board.
17.10.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Youth Advisory Board – RHEP Foster Youth
"As part of the LGBTQ+ community, I’m passionate about ensuring no young person has to face the injustices I have experienced. Especially revolving around all the stigmas of LGBTQ+ in healthcare."
— Quinn, a 2025 RHEP #YouthAdvisoryBoard member
#FosterCare #YouthAdvocacy #Healthcare
15.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learn practical harm reduction strategies to support youth & families impacted by trafficking at our Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Action Team session on Oct 22.
🔗 Register: youthlaw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
14.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Don't forget— register to vote! ✅ The 2025 California Special Election falls on November 4th.
🔗 Register online at registertovote.ca.gov
#FosterYouthVote #TAY #YouthAdvisoryBoard #Election #YouthVote
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Championing zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths worldwide | #EndAIDS
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ASHA is a 501(c) nonprofit focused on sexual health. We believe that all people have the right to the information and services that will help them to have optimum sexual health.
Reproductive health epidemiologist @guttmacher.org. Contraception, abortion, FemTech, HIV/STIs, infertility, global public health, & research integrity. Alum of WomenLift Health 2024. Maddox Prize awardee 2023. Anti-SLAPP law advocate. www.chelseapolis.com
The Imprint is a non profit daily news site reporting on youth and families. Follow to stay up to date on child welfare news in the U.S.
The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) protects and improves access to health care for low-income and underserved people and works to advance health equity. We believe that everyone should have access to high quality, equitable health care.
Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
Having the power to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child is key. 🔑 #ThxBirthControl #TalkingIsPower
For more than 55 years, Guttmacher has been the leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Empowering Black women and girls through education, wellness, and advocacy. 💜👑
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Global research and advocacy org advancing sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. #IbisDrivesChange
🔗 https://www.ibisreproductivehealth.org
Campaign of @ibisrh.bsky.social working w/ our partners to educate & engage in support of over-the-counter birth control pills in the US. Join the movement to #FreeThePill!
🔗 www.freethepill.org
We're a national advocacy nonprofit pursuing game-changing solutions that shift power to youth and improve the systems that impact their lives.
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