Category: RHEP Initiatives

PODCAST! Self Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life. Welcome to Self-Taught, a podcast from foster youth, for foster youth, with unfiltered conversations about sex, health and life. These are conversations about puberty, relationships, sexual health, identity and much more that we wish were part of our upbringing. There aren’t always people to answer the big questions or to make it easy to open up about sensitive stuff. That’s why we’re bringing those conversations to you. Because you’re not alone. We hope these conversations spark questions and provide resources for you, to find answers, feel empowered, and have community.

Self-Taught is hosted by the youth advisory board of the Reproductive Health Equity Project at the National Center for Youth Law.

PODCAST! Fostering Parenthood: Reimagining “The Talk” With Caregivers And Foster Youth. Talking to our teens about their sexual health journey can be intimidating but with Fostering Parenthood, you’re not alone. In this podcast, we talk about these important conversations through lived experience and provide helpful ideas, best practices, and resources. The end goal? Helping our children and youth in foster care become informed, strong, and confident individuals.

RESOURCE! John Burton Advocates for Youth, is conducting the California Foster Youth Tax Project to help foster youth file their taxes. This establishes Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites to assist foster youth with filing their taxes for free. This brings economic resources to parenting foster youth and their children.

ONLINE SERIES! 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. This curriculum meets requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act, as well as the California Foster Youth Sexual Health Education Act.

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