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Our Youth Advisory Board produced a Top 10 Tips for Healthy Relationships Guide to assist other young people who are interested in developing healthy relationships with friends, family members, and romantic partners. Their guide is based on their 2023 research project in which they interviewed current & former foster youth with and without sexual trauma.
Teen Talk Foster Youth, is a free, virtual, community-based sex ed series specifically for youth in California foster care, coordinated by the Reproductive Health Equity Project. The curriculum is based on the Teen Talk collection created by curriculum developers, Health Connected.
Expectant and parenting youth (EPY) with current or prior involvement in foster care experience multiple educational, health, and financial stressors. RHEP worked to assess how EPY with foster care experience navigate financial benefit programs, especially those offering cash assistance, and determine whether a larger study of benefit and cash transfer programs would be of merit. This issue brief describes the study and summarizes its results.
The Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth brings together youth in foster care and the agencies that serve them to promote systems that normalize, support, and promote the bodily autonomy and healthy sexual development of youth in foster care. Check out our video for a quick explanation of who we are and what we do.
RHEP focuses on uplifting youth voices, supporting policy change, creating connections between systems, and piloting innovative programs designed in collaboration with stakeholders and youth to better meet their needs. Below are some of our latest updates!
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