Our Rights Have No Borders

Youth Reproductive Health

Our Rights without Borders is a reproductive health program for Latina youth living in Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties with the mission of training Latin@ youth on sexual and reproductive health as well as building a movement of Latina youth activists that focus on these topics.

Through this program, El Pueblo, Inc. recruits, selects and trains Latina youth as reproductive health advocates and peer educators. Youth participating in this program meet once a week for 10-weeks and learn about:

• Sexual and reproductive rights as part of human rights
• Anatomy
• Gender identity and sexual orientation
• Contraception
• Violence attention and prevention
• The importance of preventing sexually transmitted infections
• Un-planned pregnancies in adolescents
• How to maintain healthy relationships

Besides participating in the weekly sessions, youth participate in weekend retreats focused on:

• Advocacy
• Peer to Peer Education
• Media and Communications

After learning key methods for advocating, Latin@ youth attend state and national conferences, hosted by agencies that are dedicated to advocating about sexual and reproductive rights, so that they can practice what they have learned about advocacy and can advocate for our rights.

This program has been developed and implemented through a collaborative effort between El Pueblo, Inc. and Ipas with funding from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. For additional information about:

• Ipas: visit their webpage at: www.ipas.org
• Z. Smith Reynolds: visit their webpage at: www.zsr.org

Contact:

Florence M. Siman
919 835-1525, ext. 229
email: florence@elpueblo.org