Cheers to the New Year

CHEERS TO THE NEW YEAR:    WELCOMING 2011

This year ends not with a bang but, a buzz about budgets and finances.  Concerns about potential cuts compete with hopes about new funding opportunities.  For those dedicated to promoting sexual health and preventing the transmission of STDs, 2011 is a great time to build capacity by partnering with School Based Health Clinics and those who are engaged in family planning and teen pregnancy prevention.  Effective pregnancy prevention empowers clients to make choices about if and whenis the best time to become a parent.  A comprehensive approach to family planning includes protecting clients from infection of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea.  These STDs are associated with reproductive complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and increased risk of infertility.  Condom use, partner treatment and follow-up screening are recommended options for both males and females to prevent reinfection. 

SWAP provides a wide variety of promotional and educational materials on screening and related topics:

• Search using the key words testing and youth.  Here are just a few of the items that will come up
  • Caution While Opening (door)
    
  • Get Informed, Get Tested
    
• PID Fact sheet
  
• PID Brochure
  
• Partner Services: You care about Your partner
  

NEW T-SHIRT DESIGN: Download the winning design of the: Brief Me on HPVcontest.  This winning Brief Me on HPV logo and slogan design can be used as a poster or printed on a t-shirt to promote HPV awareness.

New campaign:

Its My Life, My Future, My Choicefocuses on young Hispanic women. Chica, tenemos que hablar. Let's talk. Did you know that over half of teen pregnancies in Alameda County are among Latinas, and that 7 out of 10 Latina teen moms drop out of high school? Sometimes its hard to know what to do first: start a family, or follow your dreams. Now theres a place to get facts about sex, pregnancy or having a familythrough the internet, or though your phone!

Here are the campaign websites and overview:

1. http://www.facebook.com/LaVidaMia
2. http://twitter.com/vidaesmia
   
3. http://myspace.com/lavidaesmia
   
   

New Education Resource:

Its All One Curriculum: Guidelines and activities for a unified approach to Sexuality, gender, HIV and human rights education.  This product was developed by The Population Council.

Preview of new resources to be available in 2011:

• Fotonovella:

• Video: 

Wishes for a HAPPY and Healthy 2011!