The Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education and the Women's Center invites you to share this opportunity with student advocates on campus working on environmental, sexual and reproductive justice, policy and/or health advocacy. The One Voice: Reproductive Health and Population Summit is an annual peer-networking and consciousness-raising conference in Washington D.C., with two days of training and policy advocation on Capitol Hill. This year's conference is March 26th - 28th.
Interested students should complete the attached application and essay, or visit http://onevoicesummit.org/. Accepted youth advocates will have travel, conference, and accommodation expenses paid for. Deadline for applications is Wednesday February 3rd at 5pm. Questions can be forwarded to Sustainability Education Coordinator Sarah Brylinsky.
Best,
Sarah Brylinsky and Susannah Bartlow
ONE VOICE: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND POPULATION SUMMIT
CONTEST DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 at 5pm EST.
Win a trip to Washington, D.C. to participate in the fifth annual summit!
Enter an essay contest for youth advocates co-sponsored by
Advocates for Youth, SIECUS, and the Sierra Club!
Are you are interested in sexual and reproductive health and rights? Do you want to unite local-to-global advocacy efforts around issues like international family planning, comprehensive sex education, gender equity, and environmental protection? Then the One Voice Summit is for you! Find out what YOU can do to take real action for the issues you care about.
There is a direct connection between our health and the health of the planet. Today, more than one billion adolescents–the largest number ever–are entering their reproductive years. At the same time, we face dwindling access to sexual and reproductive health information and services as well as pressing global challenges like water scarcity, global warming, and poverty. The voices and decisions of this generation will have an impact on our world for years to come.
The One Voice Summit is a two-day training and policy maker education day for youth activists who are interested in environmental and reproductive justice issues domestically and globally. The Summit provides a forum for participants to gather and share information relevant to the intersections of sexual and reproductive health and the environment through a human rights framework; build skills on how to work with the media, policy maker education, community organizing, and advocacy; and discuss and commit to actions that they will take in their own communities to advance reproductive and environmental justice. Finally, participants will participate in a policy maker education day, meeting with their Members of Congress to request support for domestic and international policies supportive of evidence-based sexual and reproductive health programming. For more information about the One Voice Summit, please go to www.onevoicesummit.org.
We invite advocates ages 16-24 to tell us in an essay of no more than 500 words about the potential roles youth can play in advocating for a more just and sustainable world, where all people have access to sexual and reproductive health services and a healthy environment. Please describe how you will use your experience from the One Voice Summit to advocate on these issues in your community in the coming year. To enter the contest, please go to www.onevoicesummit.org. If you are unable to access the link, please submit the attached form and your essay to onevoicecontest@advocatesforyouth.org.
To qualify, contestants must be between the ages of 16 and 24, currently reside in the United States, and demonstrate a passion to work on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights and the environment. The name and contact information for one reference is also required. Winning contestants will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. for the One Voice Summit taking place March 26-29, 2010. Flight, accommodations, and meals will be covered.
CONTEST DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 at 5pm EST.
To submit your contest entry, please go to www.onevoicesummit.org. If you are unable to access the link, please email the following completed form and your essay to: onevoicecontest@advocatesforyouth.org.
ONE VOICE: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND POPULATION SUMMIT
ESSAY CONTEST ENTRY FORM
CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: _____________________________________________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH: ____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS (INCLUDE CITY, STATE AND ZIP CODE): ____________________________________________________________________________
PHONE: HOME:________________________CELL: ________________________________
EMAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________
US CITIZEN: ___YES ____NO
IF NO, WHERE DO YOU HOLD CITIZENSHIP? ______________________________
SCHOOL AFFILIATION (if any): _________________________________________________
ORGANIZATION OR GROUP AFFILIATION (if any): ________________________________
REFERENCE NAME, RELATIONSHIP TO YOU, AND CONTACT INFORMATION: ______________________________________________________________________________
ESSAY QUESTION:
There is a direct connection between our health and the health of the planet. Today, more than one billion adolescents–the largest number ever–are entering their reproductive years. At the same time, we face an increasing lack of access to reproductive health information and services and pressing global challenges like water scarcity, global warming, and poverty. The choices this generation makes will have an impact on our world for years to come.
What potential roles can youth play in advocating for a more just and sustainable world, where all people have access to sexual and reproductive health services and a healthy environment? Please describe how you will use your experience from the One Voice Summit to advocate on these issues in your community in the coming year. (500 words or less)