Council members help develop media outreach campaigns, conduct policy forums, and participate in advocacy visits to policy makers. Click here for information on how to apply to become a member of Advocates' International Youth Leadership Council. Peer educators' workshops focus on youth and adults working together, safer sexual behavior, HIV prevention, Internet-based interventions, and involving youth in program planning. Informing the News Media Advocates' Communications Department delivers Advocates' mission, message and program to the public. Each year, staff provide over 700 reporters with positive information about young people and with factual information about adolescent sexual health.
Many teens receive information about values, attitudes and behaviors from television and film.
The Media Project offers entertainment professionals an array of services to encourage and support accurate portrayals of family planning, sexuality, and reproductive health in their work. The Media Project provides several opportunities for creative teams who work in television and film to explore the myriad sexual health issues that young people face today. Advocates ' Public Policy Strategy Advocates' Public Policy staff serves to deliver Advocates' mission, message, and program to policy makers. To this end, the staff works to reframe the public debate about issues of adolescent sexual development, helps legislators and grassroots advocates identify effective programs and analyze legislative initiatives targeting youth, and conducts skills-building training that teaches advocates how to analyze public health programs, build coalitions, promote adolescent reproductive health, educate policy makers, and build public support. Each year staff works with over 6,000 activists and over 1,000 federal state, and local policy makers.