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Advocacy and Policy Level Outcomes 2014-2015
- Increase knowledge of social justice issues affecting women and girls
- Signed on to the Healthy Kids Zone Campaign to ban all applications of pesticides within a quarter miles of schools, parks, clinics and other sites where children are actively present. FLA and SHAPE members educated communities about the dangers of pesticide use.
- SHAPE participants planned all activities for SHAPE week in May 2015. Educational activites for Woodlake High students about sexual health.
- SHAPE partnered with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to educate the city of Woodlake about immigration status and lobby them to support comprehensive immigration reform.
- Three signature Campaigns reached 23,000 individuals in Tulare County
- Don't Let a Hot Date Turn into a Due Date: distributed 3,000 condom packets on prom night (15,000 condoms).
- 30 young women participated in Equal Pay Day Demonstration to distribute information about pay inequality
- ACT reached 3,000 people by hosting public events
- 40 local women and men attended a Women's Equality Day Fundraiser
- 50 community members attended a Woodlake Community Event to discuss teen pregnancy
- ACT staff, board and volunteers conducted a community service project on Make a Difference Day
- 100 people attended the Open House to celebrate the new office
- 300 people attended the One Billion Rising event in downtown Visalia
- X people attended the Coming Out for Justice Event
- ACT attended the following public events
- Step-Up Youth; Visalia; 100 attendees
- Festival of HOPE; Tulare; 5,000 attendees
- College of the Sequoias recruitment and resource distribution; Visalia; 250 attendees
- Farmworker Women's Conference; Tulare County Fairgrounds; 1,000 attendees
- Derby Dames Bout; Visalia; 300 attendees
- College of the Sequoias Health Fair; Visalia; 1,000 students
- First Congregation Church Health Fair; Visalia; 1,000 attendees
- ACT spoke at the following service clubs:
- The Emergency Contraception Jamboree in New York City
- Soroptimist International of Visalia
- Kiwanis Club
- Commercial and Industrial Group
- Mental Health Services of Porterville
- Teen Success, Inc. Stakeholders Conference
- Parent and Friends of Lesbian and Gay (PFLAG) of Kings and Tulare Counties
- Visalia Downtown Rotary
- Visalia City Center Rotary
- Increase advocacy for
social justice issues affecting women and girls with an emphasis on reproductive
justice
- Staff and youth participated in 32 legislative visits in 2014-2015
- Signed on to the Healthy Kids Zone Campaign to ban all applications of pesticides within a quarter miles of schools, parks, clinics and other sites where children are actively present.
- Program participants canvassed neighborhoods and conducted campus outreach to register voters.
- SHAPE partnered with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to educate the city of Woodlake about immigration status and lobby them to support comprehensive immigration reform.
- 19 youth conducted 47 pharmacy visits (3 more than 2014) to gather data on pharmacy access.
- Create access to information
and resources
- Maintained ACT website
- Researched and Produced Pharmacy
AccessReport Card 2015
- Developed ACT
for Pharmacy Access website
- Received requests from X organizations around the country for information on this project
- Working on the Pharmacy Access "Tool Kit" to share with other organizations around the country
- Youth produced "That
LGBT+ Show" to highlight issues of LGBT+ rights and the
struggle for connectedness and acceptance in the community.
- Two young women produced an Equal
Pay Day Video for the Equal Pay Day Campaign
- Maintained a presence on social media and reach about 2,500 people through:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Instagram
- Develop, adopt, implement
and/or enforce policies to address identified social justice issues affecting
women and girls with an emphasis on reproductive justice
- Impacting legislation on 4 bills before the state assembly and senate in 2015-2016
- SB 899: Repeal the Maximum Family Grant
- Bill voted down in 2014
- Similar bill introduced in 2015
- SB 138: Confidential Health Information Act
- Adopted and put into law in 2015
- Increase confidential services for teens and women when receiving reproductive health services
- New State bill to improve Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
- Working with a statewide coalition of partners to make sure it's passed
- Local level working with School Districts to implement policies that reflect the needs of students
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