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The following videos are from Choice USA's "We are the Champions! - Ready to Rumble" debate between Mimi Madrid and Shelby Knox.
Listen to the healthy discussion and debate (about choice and reproductive justice) that took place on January 20, 2011:
February Resource Links
*Black Love Day
http://www.africanamericanholidays.org/blacklove.html
*Census 2010
http://2010.census.gov/2010census
*Healthcare Disparities
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=524&Itemid=336
Are you in the Florida area looking for an organization to get involved with? Well I have the organization for you - RCP Movement!!!
"Respect Yourself, Check Yourself, Protect Yourself" (RCP)" was started November 2006, in South Florida (Broward County) to expose and highlight the crisis our generation is facing with the HIV/AIDS virus, particularly, black communities (*stats as shocking as 1 in 35 infected rate).
The goal of this campaign is to heighten awareness, increase the number of first-time testers, and reduce the number of newly infected individuals through execution of various creative marketing strategies. By doing this, we will decrease the number of persons at high risk for acquiring HIV or transmitting HIV infection, increase the proportion of HIV infected individuals who know they are infected and increase the number of people getting tested. For those individuals that test positive, treatment can be sought after; and for the individuals with negative results, we will continue to promote “responsible action”. The overall objective is to improve the health of the community by encouraging healthy behavior (i.e. getting tested, practicing safer sex, spreading awareness).
Advocates has worked with this great organization thats training youth leaders to go create change and mobilize their community around HIV. Earllondra and Ryan started with RCP and are now apart of the Young Women of Color Leadership Council.
To find out more information about RCP click on this link http://rcpmovement.org/whoweare.html
The goals of the Summit are to increase awareness of the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic in Black communities; increase knowledge, decrease misinformation, and dispel myths about HIV/AIDS among Black college students; and to educate and train Black students to be AIDS activist and leaders on their respective campus. The three-day event will kick off at 6:00 pm on Friday with a mini film festival and dinner held in the Cornelius L. Henderson Student Center on the AUC campus. The festival is free and open to any student with a valid college I.D.—reservations are required. The Summit included workshops on social networking, planning and organizing AIDS awareness and testing events on college campuses, and working with the media. Students attending the Summit will also be provided with tools to help them integrate the Act Against AIDS campaign into their programs
Students from across the country representing historically Black colleges and universities will converge on the Clark Atlanta University campus on February 5 to 7 for the annual LIFE AIDS Black Student Mobilization Summit. The summit is sponsored by the Black AIDS Institute and the Magic Johnson Foundation in conjunction with the Act Against AIDS campaign, a CDC HIV/AIDS public awareness campaign.
Durryle Brooks is the ne Program Manager for the GLBTQ Initiatives which includes the Anti-Homophobia and Transphobia project, YouthResource (peer educators and website), and providing Technical Assistance and Training on GLBTQ youth.
Advocates for Youth works to address homophobia within communities, sensitize youth-serving professionals to the needs of GLBTQ youth, and encourage GLBTQ youth to become powerful advocates for themselves and other youth by sharing culturally relevant information and access to tailored services.
If you would like to reach out to Durryle, contact him @ durryle@advocatesforyouth.org.
The Young Women of Color Leadership Council represents a diverse group of young women from across the U.S. This year we are super excited to partner with 5 HBCUs: Morgan State University, Fayetteville State University, Benedict College, Alabama A&M, and Southern University Baton Rouge.
By the end of this year we will have helped to institutionalize a Young Women of Color Leadership Council on each campus. These Councils will conduct HIV prevention education; help young black women on campus reduce their risk for HIV infection, increase HIV testing, increase condom availability and provide support to the student health center.
Due to the alarming rates of HIV and AIDS among young women of color, the Young Women of Color Leadership Council was started in 2002 to educate, include and empower young women of color in HIV prevention efforts and to build youth leaders. These dynamic young women educate their peers so they will become involved in fighting HIV in their respective communities.
YWOCLC currently consists of seventeen women from all across the country who have come together to prevent the spread of HIV in our communities, especially among other young women of color. We are advocating for the inclusion of young women of color in HIV prevention programs so they will become involved in fighting HIV in their respective communities.
Each Council member is responsible for conducting workshops, hosting community forums, sponsor a national HIV awareness event in their community and work on reproductive and sexual health policies that affect young women of color, and provide resources to media outlets.
The goals of the Council are:
- Educate: We raise awareness among young people, especially young women of color, about the need for HIV prevention efforts for themselves and other young people.
- Include: We advocate for the inclusion of young women of color in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of HIV prevention programs.
- Empower: We need all young people, especially our sisters of color, to get involved in fighting HIV and AIDS in our communities.
