Oct 07 2007
Key Web Sites Relating to Sex Education
- Advocates for Youth - Provides information, training, and assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists and media about sexual health and education
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/sexeducation.htm - Focus on Kids (FOK) and Informed Parents and Children Together (ImPACT) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s program teaches high-risk youths about abstinence and safe sex, drugs, alcohol, AIDS and STDs, contraception, and human development
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/research/prs/resources/factsheets/FOK-ImPACT.htm - Guttmacher Institute - Provides research, public education and policy analysis in sexual and reproductive health
http://www.guttmacher.org - The Heritage Foundation - think tank
http://www.heritage.org/ - The Kaiser Network - Provides information on national health issues to policymakers, media and the public
http://www.kaisernetwork.org
http://www.kff.org/ - The Kinsey Institute - Provides research in human sexuality, gender and reproduction
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/ - Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
http://www.siecus.org - The White House - Includes press releases on abstinence-only sex education and other news
http://www.whitehouse.gov - Title V legislation - Provides federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-ACYF-AEGP-0143.html#_Toc142296142 - details of Title V
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/pdfs/impactabstinence.pdf - Congressionally-funded report examining the effectiveness of sex education programs - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/ - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families department - administers Title V federal funding for abstinence-only education
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/content/abstinence/index.htm - Abstinence education division - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institues of Health
http://www.nih.gov/ - U.S. government’s 2004 report - Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs
http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf