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TIME-SENSITIVE ACTION ALERT!!!
Dear SisterReach Supporter,
For the last 3 years, SisterReach has been working with local and state partners toward securing comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) for Tennessee Youth. However the lack of CSE is a national problem, particularly in the South. Meanwhile, some members of Congress are working to defund ANY comprehensive education funding and reassign these vital resources to abstinence based education programs which have proven to be ineffective.
WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN!
Our national partners at SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) are asking that as many of who can, contact your Congressman TODAY.
Legislation is moving through Congress that would get rid of funding for the Office of Adolescent Health’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) and continue to under fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH). Not only do these bills deny the level of funding necessary to provide our nation’s youth the education and information they deserve, the proposals would as much as double funding for wasteful community abstinence-based programs.
As a constituent, you can educate them on just how critical funding for non-shaming, non-stigmatizing, and science-based adolescent sexual health promotion programs are to meet the needs and rights of young people in your community.
Tell Congress that ending TPPP funding and under funding DASH is unacceptable and that we must stop funding harmful abstinence based programs once and for all. Your voice, stories, and expertise are vital to supporting the rights and health of youth across the country.
Thank you for your support!
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