Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
 
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Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

The Protecting the Next Generation Program works to convince key decision makers to acknowledge and address young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs with regard to sex education, contraceptive access and counseling, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. We document and analyze young people’s knowledge, concerns, preferences and behavior; examine and suggest evidence-based improvements to policies and programs; and communicate our knowledge to a broad audience including policymakers, health care providers, media, researchers and activists.

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Highlights

State policy expert Elizabeth Nash participated in a roundtable discussion sponsored by the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, which convened social workers and frontline staff working in schools to discuss the services, laws, rights and resources available to pregnant and parenting teens. Nash’s presentation, “Minors’ Right to Consent to Health Care,” focused on D.C. laws and policies regarding minors’ right to consent to general medical care, contraception, STI/HIV services, prenatal care, abortion and mental health services. (see An Overview of Minors’ Consent Law). Approximately 100 people attended the event.