Through collective impact, RHEP has strived to promote the healthy sexual development of foster youth and increase access to sexual and reproductive health care and education by supporting policy change, creating connections between systems, tracking barriers, and piloting innovative programs designed in collaboration with stakeholders and youth to better meet their needs. Below you can learn about some of our current initiatives, which includes programs & services that are now available to foster youth and their network of supportive adults.
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 of the California Healthy Youth Act, as well as the California Foster Youth Sexual Health Education Act. It is taught by leading educators & community-based organizations including Planned Parenthood of Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley & Black Women for Wellness.
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.
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. Together, we will talk about these important conversations through lived experience and provide helpful ideas, best practices, and resources. Our goal is helping our children and youth in foster care become informed, strong, and confident individuals.
Self Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life. This podcast is 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. We hope these conversations spark questions and provide resources for you, to find answers, feel empowered, and have community.
The Foster Friendly Healthcare Toolkit is a practitioner’s guide to delivering quality sexual and reproductive health care to youth in foster care.
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