Advocacy Organizations

Advocates for Youth partners with youth leaders, adult allies, and youth-serving organizations to advocate for policies and champion programs that recognize young people’s rights to honest sexual health information; accessible, confidential, and affordable sexual health services; and the resources and opportunities necessary to create sexual health equity for all youth. … [Read more...] about Advocates for Youth

Answer is a national organization that provides and promotes unfettered access to comprehensive sexuality education for young people and the adults who teach them. … [Read more...] about Answer: Sex Ed, Honestly

As an offshoot of SIECUS, this particular initiative doesn't technically require its own entry. But I appreciate how it harnesses the efforts of folks like you and me in order to advance progressive sex education policy and implementation across the U.S. EducateUS's aim is to turn undecided and unengaged citizens into passionate sex education voters. If you believe in its … [Read more...] about EducateUS

Girls Health Ed is a 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to educate girls 8-17 about their health and well-being. … [Read more...] about Girls Health Ed

Healthy Teen Network promotes better outcomes for adolescents and young adults by advancing social change, cultivating innovation, and strengthening youth-supporting professionals and organizations. … [Read more...] about Healthy Teen Network

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a policy initiative in partnership with Black Women for Wellness, Black Women’s Health Imperative, New Voices Pittsburgh, SisterLove, Inc., and SPARK Reproductive Justice Now. Their focus is on abortion rights and access, contraceptive equity, and comprehensive sex education. … [Read more...] about In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. … [Read more...] about Planned Parenthood

Power to Decide works to ensure that all young people—no matter who they are, where they live, or what their economic status might be—have the power to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. They do this by increasing information, access, and opportunity. … [Read more...] about Power to Decide

Queer Youth Assemble is a queer-led, youth-led nonprofit serving queer youth under 25 in the United States. Through events, projects, community collaboration, resources, professional development, artistic endeavors, and more, they strive to create an inclusive and transformative world for queer youth. … [Read more...] about Queer Youth Assemble

SafeBAE is a survivor-founded, student-led national organization working to prevent sexual violence exclusively among middle and high school students in the U.S. They work to enlist all school stakeholders in culture change by giving teens the tools to become peer-to-peer advocates of sexual harassment and assault prevention, affirmative consent, safe bystander intervention, … [Read more...] about SafeBAE

SIECUS asserts that sex education is a powerful vehicle for social change. They view sexuality as a fundamental part of being human, one worthy of dignity and respect. They advocate for the rights of all people to accurate information, comprehensive sexuality education, and the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health services. … [Read more...] about SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change

FoSE — a collaboration of Advocates for Youth, Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change — seeks to create a national dialogue about the future of sex education and to promote the institutionalization of comprehensive sexuality education in public schools. … [Read more...] about The Future of Sex Education

They write, teach, and train on comprehensive, medically accurate, inclusive sex ed that covers the entire life span. … [Read more...] about Unhushed

URGE envisions a liberated world where we can live with justice, love freely, express our gender and sexuality, and define and create families of our choosing. As a state-driven national organization, they organize communities, provide a political home for young people, advocate for meaningful policy change, and shift culture, working in states where the challenges and … [Read more...] about URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity