the alliance believes

One of the most strategic ways to help students graduate and improve their overall well-being is to ensure that they have access to accurate, culturally relevant education, affordable resources and confidential services they need to make informed decisions about their sexual health. This includes information about abstinence as well as the benefits and consequences of condoms and contraceptives – also known as ‘comprehensive sexuality education.’ The Healthy Colorado Youth Alliance (The Alliance) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of organizations who believe that adolescent pregnancy and STI rates can be reduced through sustained statewide efforts in support of comprehensive sexuality education, that include youth and family engagement, proven evidence-based approaches, and advocacy for affordable and confidential resources and services.

2011 Colorado Sex Ed Year in Review

calendarIn an update to last year's report "Raising Expectations in the Rockies" this report outlines the important gains that Colorado has made to improve the quality of sex education delivered to young people and ensure that comprehensive standards are used to shape the sexual health curriculum administered in public schools.

Read the Report Here

Expose on CO Ab-Only Programs

westwordGirls' brains are like spaghetti, boys' brains are like waffles... boys tuck schoolbooks under their arms at the waist, girls cradle theirs like a baby...boys were made to pursue girls and girls were made to wait to be pursued by boys...we have an entire generation of girls looking for daddy love...you just have to get that viable sperm close to her vagina and she turns on the little Hoover vacuum, because girls are very, very fertile...

— from a video of a 2009 WAIT Training assembly at Loveland High School

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