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The Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth is seeking advocates to join the 2025 Youth Advisory Board (YAB). YAB members are paid $27/hr for this remote role. RHEP believes everyone deserves bodily autonomy and healthy sexual development. All young people, including those who identify as male and/or fathers, pregnant and/or formerly pregnant, parenting youth, and LGBTQ+ are strongly encouraged to apply!
Teen Talk Foster Youth, formerly known as Teen Talk YAS, 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.
This webinar presents results from the third survey, conducted in the summer of 2023, including where youth get sexual health information, how they access care, and the barriers they face while highlighting differences based on age, gender, sexual orientation, or racial/ethnic identity.
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!
The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is made up of eighteen young people with lived experience in foster care that support RHEP in advancing reproductive and sexual health rights and increasing access to services.
Learn moreThis webinar explains how the data in this innovative report was developed and reviews key findings. RHEP’s YAB members & community partners share their thoughts on the data.
Learn moreTeen 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.
Read NowRead about our youth advocates' areas of advocacy, YAB's experience with sexual and reproductive health, YAB in the news, our biannual foster youth report, and more!
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