Advocacy and Policy Level Outcomes 2014-2015

  1. Increase knowledge of social justice issues affecting women and girls
    1. 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.
    2. SHAPE participants planned all activities for SHAPE week in May 2015. Educational activites for Woodlake High students about sexual health.
    3. SHAPE partnered with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to educate the city of Woodlake about immigration status and lobby them to support comprehensive immigration reform.
    4. Three signature Campaigns reached 23,000 individuals in Tulare County
    5. Don't Let a Hot Date Turn into a Due Date: distributed 3,000 condom packets on prom night (15,000 condoms).
    6. 30 young women participated in Equal Pay Day Demonstration to distribute information about pay inequality
    7. ACT reached 3,000 people by hosting public events
      1. 40 local women and men attended a Women's Equality Day Fundraiser
      2. 50 community members attended a Woodlake Community Event to discuss teen pregnancy
      3. ACT staff, board and volunteers conducted a community service project on Make a Difference Day
      4. 100 people attended the Open House to celebrate the new office
      5. 300 people attended the One Billion Rising event in downtown Visalia
      6. X people attended the Coming Out for Justice Event
    8. ACT attended the following public events
      1. Step-Up Youth; Visalia; 100 attendees
      2. Festival of HOPE; Tulare; 5,000 attendees
      3. College of the Sequoias recruitment and resource distribution; Visalia; 250 attendees
      4. Farmworker Women's Conference; Tulare County Fairgrounds; 1,000 attendees
      5. Derby Dames Bout; Visalia; 300 attendees
      6. College of the Sequoias Health Fair; Visalia; 1,000 students
      7. First Congregation Church Health Fair; Visalia; 1,000 attendees
    9. ACT spoke at the following service clubs:
      1. The Emergency Contraception Jamboree in New York City
      2. Soroptimist International of Visalia
      3. Kiwanis Club
      4. Commercial and Industrial Group
      5. Mental Health Services of Porterville
      6. Teen Success, Inc. Stakeholders Conference
      7. Parent and Friends of Lesbian and Gay (PFLAG) of Kings and Tulare Counties
      8. Visalia Downtown Rotary
      9. Visalia City Center Rotary
  2. Increase advocacy for social justice issues affecting women and girls with an emphasis on reproductive justice
    1. Staff and youth participated in 32 legislative visits in 2014-2015
    2. 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.
    3. Program participants canvassed neighborhoods and conducted campus outreach to register voters.
    4. SHAPE partnered with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to educate the city of Woodlake about immigration status and lobby them to support comprehensive immigration reform.
    5. 19 youth conducted 47 pharmacy visits (3 more than 2014) to gather data on pharmacy access.
  3. Create access to information and resources
    1. Maintained ACT website
    2. Researched and Produced Pharmacy AccessReport Card 2015
    3. Developed ACT for Pharmacy Access website
      1. Received requests from X organizations around the country for information on this project
      2. Working on the Pharmacy Access "Tool Kit" to share with other organizations around the country
    4. Youth produced "That LGBT+ Show" to highlight issues of LGBT+ rights and the struggle for connectedness and acceptance in the community.
    5. Two young women produced an Equal Pay Day Video for the Equal Pay Day Campaign
    6. Maintained a presence on social media and reach about 2,500 people through:
      1. Facebook
      2. Twitter
      3. Instagram
  4. Develop, adopt, implement and/or enforce policies to address identified social justice issues affecting women and girls with an emphasis on reproductive justice
    1. Impacting legislation on 4 bills before the state assembly and senate in 2015-2016
      1. SB 899: Repeal the Maximum Family Grant
        1. Bill voted down in 2014
        2. Similar bill introduced in 2015
      2. SB 138: Confidential Health Information Act
        1. Adopted and put into law in 2015
        2. Increase confidential services for teens and women when receiving reproductive health services
      3. New State bill to improve Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
        1. Working with a statewide coalition of partners to make sure it's passed
      4. Local level working with School Districts to implement policies that reflect the needs of students

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