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The Million Moms Challenge
is a call-to-action. It's a campaign for hope. A movement for change. By engaging a million Americans with millions of mothers in the developing world around issues that directly impact pregnancy, childbirth and children's health, the Million Moms Challenge will raise awareness and funds to help women and children everywhere survive and thrive. The Million Moms Challenge will focus on crucial issues that are a priority for all mothers, including access to proper nutrition to support healthy pregnancies, trained midwives to assist in safe deliveries, and vaccines that enable children to survive to their first birthdays and beyond. Take the challenge, share your story, and support moms here
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With your help, we can increase services and better serve your needs. Donate today to help us amp up our scholarship fund, advocacy work, trainings, and conferences! To donate today, visit our website For 2012: Join Our Board of Directors! Do you stand behind our mission-to increase the knowledge, skills and resources of individuals concerned with adolescent pregnancy, parenting and prevention? BECOME A BOARD MEMBER and work for change in your region! We are currently seeking board members for all regions.Apply Today!
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 Two Upcoming Webinars!December 13, 2011: "Sex Isn't 'Dirty': Being Sex Positive When Teaching Teens" "Sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - singer/songwriter Butch Hancock. If you see the inconsistency in this statement, this training is for you! Making your prevention messages sex-positive is critical to relating to youth and teaching about healthy, safe relationships. This workshop is designed to provide educators and others who interact with teens the tools necessary to discuss sex and sexuality from a positive perspective. Being sex positive incorporates the understanding that sex is a normal and healthy part of human development. Approaching sex education from this perspective can teach teens how to make healthy life-long choices. Date: Tuesday December 13, 2011 Time: 12pm-1pm Registration Fee: TeenNow California members: $10, Non-members: $25, TeenNow California Annual Membership Fee: $50 After registering you will be directed to a payment page. Once payment is received, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
Whether you're new to field of sexual health education or are a manager of health educators, this workshop provides vital information for you! To provide the best services you need staff and management that understand youth development issues, know their material well, and are skilled at communicating and relating to young people. The Adolescent Sexual Health Workshop (ASHWG) has created a set of criteria for hiring and evaluating adolescent sexual health providers that details all the skills and knowledge needed to make sure your programs and services are the best they can be. The development of the Core Competencies was modeled on the same procedures used to develop core competences for public health workers, nurses, social workers, therapists, and addiction counselors. Over 100 national experts in reproductive health gave input to the competencies over the two years of development.
Date: Thursday January 19th, 2012
Time: 2pm-3:30pm
Registration Fee: TeenNow California members: $10, Non-members: $25, TeenNow California Annual Membership Fee: $50
After registering you will be directed to a payment page. Once payment is received, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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Don't miss out on these great, inexpensive ways to get training without having to travel! If you have a "wish list" of trainings you want to see offered, please contact us at tnca@teennowcalifornia.org--and remember, as a member you get discounts on all our trainings and services!
Support Teen Parents with Scholarships! 
We're raising money to support our teen scholarship program! Every year, we give out scholarships to eight California teen parents and one California teen student leader to help them go on to secondary education-college or vocational school-after they graduate from high school. These scholarships are vital to help young people achieve their goals, and you can help! A small donation of $20 can contribute to the education of a teen in your area. Please help now. California youth need opportunities to succeed!
Fundraising Goal: $2,500
Campaign Dates: Dec. 1st, 2011 to Dec. 31st, 2011
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Opportunities
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 Girls' State of the Union Video Contest
The Women's Media Center invites girls from all over the United States, ages 14-22, to create a 1- 5 minute Girls' State of the Union video. Five finalists will be highlighted on the Women's Media Center's YouTube channel and a group of diverse and talented celebrity and new media influencer judges will choose the winner. Like the President's report, the Girls' State of the Union will sum up the condition of the country-with special emphasis on the welfare of girls-and an outline of what the President's legislative agenda and priorities for congress should be. The winner, along with her parents or guardians, will be flown to Washington, DC to present her State of the Union report at the National Press Club in January. Videos may be submitted until December 5, 2011. Get more info and submit a video
 Yoga Recess Teacher's Grant
Yoga Recess is excited to announce the first grant for teachers. How would you use $500-$1000 to integrate yoga into your classroom? All candidates must be a teacher employed in a school. Grants cannot be used to fund operating budgets or staff salaries. The winner will have one year to use the grant for his or her project. Write a 250 word essay explaining how you see yourself integrating yoga into the classroom. Please include a proposed budget outlining how the grant money would be utilized. You do not have to currently teach or practice yoga to qualify. Get more info here
 "Imagine Me and You" Million Moms Challenge Contest
 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Invites Applications for Dissertation Fellowships in EducationThe Jack Kent Cooke Foundation works to help high-achieving, low-income students - from middle school to graduate school - reach their full potential through education. The foundation created its dissertation fellowship program in 2010 to advance its understanding of the factors and contexts that help low-income students overcome personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically. The foundation plans to use this knowledge to design programs and interventions that help more low-income students identified as high-achieving in their primary and secondary school years to sustain their achievement levels through college and beyond. The fellowships are intended to support doctoral students for work done after the successful defense of their dissertation proposals. Although applicants must be candidates for a doctoral degree at a graduate school in the United States, they need not be U.S. citizens. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to education, sociology, economics, psychology, statistics, and psychometrics. The fellowship is a one-time award of up to $25,000, which may be used for a period of not less than nine months and up to eighteen months. Four fellowships will be awarded. Get more info here
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Personhood Measure May Be On November Ballot in CA
Proponents of a measure that would ban abortions by giving equal rights to fetuses have been cleared to gather signatures in California, the secretary of state's office said Friday. The push comes on the heels of a similar effort rejected by voters in Mississippi earlier this month. Union City-based California Civil Rights Foundation must collect more than 807,000 signatures by April to qualify for the November 2012 ballot, the secretary of state's office said. The foundation's president, Walter Hoye, is an Oakland pastor known for protesting outside abortion clinics. He said he launched a similar campaign in California in 2010, but it fell short of the required signatures. He said he is hoping for a spirited signature drive for the "California Human Rights Amendment." Hoye's group is not affiliated with Personhood USA, which sponsored the Mississippi initiative. The California proposal would define a person as a living human being from the time of fertilization, giving embryos equal protection under the state Constitution. The Legislative Analyst's Office and Department of Finance said if voters adopted the initiative, the potential cost to the state could be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish due process and equal protection for "zygotes, embryos, and fetuses." Read more
NIJ Study Finds School Interventions Significantly Reduce Dating Violence
A National Institute of Justice (NIJ) study has found that school-level interventions reduced dating violence as much as 50 percent in 30 New York City public schools. These interventions included using school-based restraining orders, increasing faculty and security presence in dating violence "hot spots," and hanging posters to increase awareness of the issue and encourage students to report it to officials. NIJ is a research branch of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice. "The success of school-level interventions is particularly important because they can be implemented with very few extra costs to schools. The scientific methods in this study were rigorous," said NIJ Director John H. Laub, Ph.D. Read the full report
Rising Poverty Rates Take a Toll on Two Generations: Young Children, Young Parents, Single-Mother Families Disproportionately Hit by Weak Economy
According to a new report from Child Trends, the younger the parent and the younger the child, the more likely a family is to be poor. As policy makers ponder the merits of alternative measures of poverty, the Child Trends report outlines the disproportionate effects of poverty on young children, young parents, and children and parents in single-mother families. Among the report's highlights:
- The younger the parent, the more likely a family is to be poor. Households headed by young parents (18-24) are more likely to be poor than households headed by older parents, regardless of marital status.
- The younger the child, the more likely a family is to be poor. Families with young children (0-6) are more likely to be poor than families with older children.
- Overall poverty rates mask much higher rates for some sub-groups, such as single-mother families, whose poverty rate was 40.7 percent in 2010, compared to 8.8 percent for married-couple families.
The Child Trends report also summarizes the large body of research establishing the association between poverty and negative outcomes for adults, including parents, and for children. For parents, the negative effect of poverty extends beyond material hardships and basic needs, and is associated with increased mental health problems and difficulties in parenting. Among children, the effects of poverty are potentially even more pervasive and lasting. Children experiencing early, deep, or persistent poverty are especially likely to experience long-term, deleterious effects on their development and life circumstances, such as increased economic hardships as adults. This brief draws on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and focuses a two-generation lens on poverty rates and low-income status among children and parents. In addition, it presents data on differences across race, age, family structure, gender, education, employment status and geography. Read the full report
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Advocacy
| VAWA Reauthorization to be Introduced
The Violence Against Women Act is due for reauthorization. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), will introduce a bipartisan bill on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 to reauthorize and improve VAWA. The National Task Force to end Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women has worked closely with them on the bill to ensure that it will not only continue proven effective programs, but that it will make key changes to streamline VAWA and make sure that even more people have access to safety, stability and justice. This is an important step forward for VAWA. Read more on the VAWA Reathorization and get more info on being involved with the National Task Force |
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Webinar: Strategies to Advance Student Success Through High School After-School Programs
When: November 30, 2011, 10:30am-12:00pm
What: The webinar will examine some of the most effective programs in the state and nation serving high school students in after-school programs and how to align them with the instructional day. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers, California's ASSETs program, and nationally recognized models based on proven youth development principles will be examined. The goal will be to examine model programs ranging from academic remediation to work-based experiences and service learning to arts and sports that provide inviting experiences for high school youth and result in significant outcomes. The presenters bring a wealth of knowledge on STEM Service Learning, utilizing the after-school space to offer engaging skill-building opportunities, credit recovering, and the Quality Self-Assessement Tool developed specifically for high schools. Register here
Webinar: Two Generations In Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States When: December 6, 2011, 12:30pm-1:30pm
What: As the merits of alternative measures of poverty are debated, a new Child Trends report calls attention to the pervasive effects of poverty on parents and their children. In this webinar, Child Trends reports on the disproportionate impact of poverty on parents and children, particularly those in single-mother families. Register here
Webinar: TeenNow California, Sex Isn't "Dirty": Being Sex Positive When Teaching Teens When: Wednesday, December 13, 2011, 12pm-1pm
What: See detailed info above. Register here
Webinar: Providing Excellent Services: What Every Adolescent Sexual Health Provider Should Know
When: January 19th, 2011, 2pm-3:30pm
What: See detailed info above. Register here
REGION 3
Family Planning Health Worker Certification Course
When: December 5, 6, and 7, 2011, 8:30am-4pm
Where: Pajaro Valley Health Trust, 85 Nielson Street, Watsonville, CA 95076
What: This course has been designed to help staff of family planning clinics develop the skills to be an effective health educator and counselor, learn up-to-date information to use with clients, find easy-to-understand ways to explain that information to clients. By attending this course, participants learn the basic knowledge and skills to become Certified Family Planning Health Workers. In order to be certified, participants must pass a written examination and conduct a client education session as a role play. This course is designed for new family planning clinic and community agency based staff. It is also a great refresher for more experienced staff, including: Nurses, medical assistants, health educators, public service employees, community health workers, peer providers and other interested program staff. Deadline to register: November 28, 2011. RSVP to PVUSD Child Development Department Amber Faria 831-786-8270 or email amber_faria@pvusd.net.
Teen Talk Sexuality Education Teacher Training
When: February 1st and 2nd, 2011, 9am-4pm
Where: Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Ortega Building, 2350 El Camino Real, Mountain View, Ca 94040
What: Ideal for middle school and high school teachers, and community/health educators. This workshop will cover: California Education Code, healthy relationships, values clarification in sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS), abstinence/not having sex, birth control updates, encouraging parent/child communication, pregnancy options, decision-making skills, sexual identity & gender, sex and the media, how to answer tough questions from teens, and more. Participants will receive a hard copy of our bilingual Teen Talk curriculum. Discount if registered by January 15th. Register here
REGION 7
Southern California Sexual Health Summit
When: Wednesday February 15th, 2012 10am-4pm
Where: California Endowment in Downtown Los Angeles
What: The Southern California Sexual Health Collaborative will be hosting a Sexual Health Summit.
This event is a time to share programs, ideas and best practices with colleagues across Southern California who are working to improve the sexual health of youth and adults in the region. This is an informal event designed to provide a forum for people to come together to identify some priorities and share ideas about working in one of the most diverse and populous areas of the nation. With the devastating budget cuts to social services and the overall national economy, it's even more critical for service providers, researchers, government officials and community members to come together and share resources and experiences. Event details and agenda forthcoming!The event is free of charge; however, no food will be provided (there is a cafeteria on site). Space is limited, so sign up early! Get more info and register here
REGION 8
Film Premiere: "Indoctrinated: The Grooming of Children into Prostitution"
 When: Tuesday December 6, 2011, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theater, USD
What: Free premiere of the educational film "Indoctrinated: The Grooming of Children into Prostitution." Indoctrinated is a documentary film about child sex trafficking in San Diego County. This film uncovers the scope and destructive nature of child sex trafficking and teaches parents and youth about the tactics used by pimps and gangs to recruit, groom, psychology coerce and indoctrinate their victims into a life of sexual exploitation and violence. A life that no one would ever choose. Get more info and RSVP here
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Job Postings
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Coronado School of the Arts Foundation (CoSA) Hiring Executive Director/Cheif Fundraiser (San Diego, CA)
The Foundation is currently searching for an outstanding leader who knows how to raise money and manage an organization that interacts daily with the public, volunteers, high school students, and school faculty as well as administration at both the school and district level. The successful candidate should have considerable experience with fundraising and development, be passionate about the arts and supporting young artists, and be willing to work occasional nights and weekends. Executive level management experience is a plus; enthusiasm for, and expertise in, current fundraising practices are essential. The EDCF reports to a volunteer board of directors through the board's executive committee. A small staff, including an executive assistant, will report to the EDCF. Candidates should have a college degree and at least five years of fundraising experience. Please indicate advanced training, education, and experience with the arts or education, as these will be favorably considered.Send full resume or CV, with introduction or cover letter, to Irv Kass, CoSA Foundation Transition Consultant, CoSAsearch@yahoo.com. For more information about the Coronado School of the Arts Foundation go to http://cosafoundation.org
The Center Hiring Bilingual (Spanish/English) Licensed Staff Counselor
The Center's Behavioral Health Services provide services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and HIV/AIDS communities. General services include crisis counseling, information, and referral; individual, couple and family counseling; psychosocial assessment, triage and treatment planning; and an intern and professional training program for the provision of LGBT and HIV/AIDS mental health services. The Licensed Counselor position provides individual, couple, family and group counseling primarily to the HIV/AIDS and LGBT communities and offers a rare opportunity to join a talented and very hard-working team that is committed to improving the lives of the communities we serve. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated team-player who accepts direction, demonstrates excellent judgment, works hard and is passionate about serving the LGBT and HIV communities. Get full job description and application requirments here
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