Advocates for Youth

Sex education: Advocates is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that young people have access to honest and high quality sex education. Advocates' open-source, lgbt-inclusive k-12th grade curriculum, "rights, respect, responsibility", is used in more than 100 school districts across the u.s., reaching more than 2.5 million students. Advocates is the lead partner on amaze.org, an innovative series of animated videos covering puberty and topics for young people, their parents and educators. After successful testing, Advocates also offers a virtual classroom as an innovative option to train teachers from their own computer to implement quality sex education in their classrooms. Staff provides capacity-building assistance and training for school districts across the country.

Public affairs: Advocates works to ensure that all young people have access to sexual health information and services and opportunities that drive sexual health equity. Advocates and its Youth activists created several advocacy campaigns to engage young people in efforts to shift the national narrative to one that recognizes young people's rights, utilizing traditional media outreach, social media networks and partnerships, and storytelling. Advocates also centered young people in efforts to educate policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels.

Youth empowerment: Advocates trains thousands of Youth activists each year to serve as Advocates and leaders in the progressive movement. Advocates helps these emerging leaders to shift cultural narratives and improve policy and practice at the local and state levels, centering the health and rights of Youth from marginalized communities.

Hiv/aids prevention

Adolescent sexual health services

International programs

Public information services