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 On Monday, August 30th, the Colorado Department of Human Services submitted a federal application to fund real, comprehensive sex education through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
PREP, created through the national health care reform bill, provides grants to states to provide medically accurate sex education in order to help youth reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections. Financial literacy, education and career success, and healthy life skills such as goal setting are also emphasized under this program.
Colorado will receive nearly $800,000 a year for the next 5 years for comprehensive sex education that includes an emphasis on life skills.
Congratulate Governor Ritter on bringing $4 million into Colorado that will provide comprehensive health education that has been shown to help youth delay sexual activity and use condoms and contraception when they do become sexually active.
Send a letter to the Governor by clicking here. |
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According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention science-based, medically accurate, age appropriate, culturally relevant, and comprehensive sexuality education programs have been proven to help youth delay the onset of sexual activity, reduce the frequency of sexual activity, reduce number of sexual partners, and increase condom and contraceptive use.
Take action today to ensure that your legislators are supporting efforts to increase access to comprehensive sexuality education and ensuring that our Colorado youth have the information and resources they need to make informed and responsible decisions and lead healthy lives by clicking here. |
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The Healthy Colorado Youth Alliance offers many different ways to get involved. If you are just looking to sign up for our emails and action alerts, click here.
If you are interested in becoming an official Partner or Advisor, click here.
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