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Support medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education for New York State youth.

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Get the Facts NY supports the right of every young person to access the information and develop the skills necessary to make safe and responsible choices about his or her sexual health. Get the Facts NY advocates for medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education for youth in New York State.

Did you know in New York State…

• There were nearly 40,000 teen pregnancies in 2005.

• 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection according to the Centers for Disease Control.

• More than 6 in 10 high school students will have sex before they graduate.

It is critical that young people have access to accurate information and services. Get the Facts NY is dedicated to ensuring that New York’s young people aren’t left in the dark, and to enabling young people to make responsible choices about sex.

Get the Facts NY represents a broad constituency of young people and their parents, education professionals, health care providers, religious leaders, child and health advocates, and policy organizations.

View our list of campain members.

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• June 30, 2008

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST - Idaho joins string of states to reject Title V abstinence-only funding from the feds.

Read the IdahoStatesman.com article.

• June 27, 2008

IS NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY - Are you positive you're not positive?

Find a testing site near you.

Find other resources and information.

• June 24, 2008

NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION ENDS - Senate neglects Healthy Teens Act AGAIN.

• June 23, 2008

LI TEEN ADVOCATES: Students lobby for 'real' sex ed - 'Call Joe Bruno,' youths urge, to pass Healthy Teens Act.

Read the Newsday.com story.

TEENS TEACHING EACH OTHER ABOUT SEX - Farai Chideya talks with 17-year-old Jacquelyn Richards, a peer educator with Planned Parenthood, about the biggest challenges young people face regarding sex, how music and pop culture affects those challenges, and why comprehensive sex education is important.

Listen to the NPR.org story.

CORTLAND COUNTY FIGHTS TEEN PREGNANCY - Seventeen teens at one Massachusetts high school are pregnant after several of them made a pact to have babies and raise them together. Now parents and educators across the nation worry this could happen elsewhere. News 10 spoke with Cortland County educators about their programs to prevent teen pregnancy.

Read the News10Now.com story.

• June 11, 2008

150 ORGANIZATIONS JOIN SENATORS TO DEMAND REAL SEX EDUCATION - With the School Year and the Legislative Session Coming to an End, the Get the Facts NY Coalition Says the Senate Must Vote on the Healthy Teens Act Before Another Class Graduates

Read the Family Planning Advocates of NYS Press Release.

Read the NewsLI.com story.

• June 4, 2008

CDC RELEASES NEW YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR DATA - Little change seen in sexual health behavior.

Check out the YRBSS at cdc.gov.

Read the SIECUS analysis.

• May 17, 2008

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PASS THE HEALTHY TEENS ACT - State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has the power to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Send Majority Leader Bruno an e-mail.

• April 30, 2008

NEW: SCIENCE vs. SUCCESS, SECOND EDITION - Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Check out this new resource at AdvocatesforYouth.org

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Get the Facts NY is a project of Family Planning Advocates of New York State (FPA)
and the Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New York State.

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