Comprehensive Sex Education 
Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth creates programs and advocates for comprehensive sex education policies. Their Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® campaign is their effort to help society get over its discomfort with talking about sex. Read their views on the point-by-point differences between comprehensive and abstinence-only-until-marriage education and on sex education curricula that work.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Founded in 1968 as the Center for Family Planning Program Development, AGI is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
American Medical Association
As the nation's largest physician's group, the AMA advocates on issues vital to public health. Their position on sex education states that the AMA "urges schools to implement comprehensive, developmentally appropriate sexuality education programs" and "endorses comprehensive family life education in lieu of abstinence-only education, unless research shows abstinence-only education to be superior in preventing negative health outcomes." Read the AMA
policy, "Sexuality Education, Abstinence, and Distribution of Condoms in Schools" (H-170.968). (Requires that you agree to their search terms and conditions first.)
ETR Associates
ETR is a leading publisher of comprehensive sex ed curricula and also conducts training and research on sexuality and health education. Their website features curricula on abstinence, birth control, HIV and safer sex as well as other life skills topics. Includes over 100 Spanish and bilingual materials.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. Their website features materials on sex education policy and politics, teen sexual activity and their public education media projects.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
NCPTP is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-ideological grassroots initiative to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third by 2005. Their website is a great resource for statistics on teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. and state by state information.
Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation was founded by Margaret Sanger, a pioneer of the American birth control movement. Their position is that "abstinence-only programs are inadequate to ensure sexual health." To that end they provide comprehensive education on sexuality and reproductive health to more than 1.3 million clients, according to their figures. Their website Teenwire.com is their source for sexuality and relationship information for teens.
SEX, ETC.
SEX, ETC. is a national newsletter and website written by teens, for teens, on teen sexual health issues. SEX, ETC. is developed by the Network for Family Life Education, an organization that supports balanced, comprehensive sexuality education.
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
SIECUS is a source for print and electronic resources on sexuality education, sexual health, and sexual rights. SIECUS offers assistance to educators, advocates, parents, researchers, physicians, and others working to expand sexual health programs, policies, and understanding.
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