Take a SEAT!
We’re back home from SEAT! What a fabulous experience Zoe (our sponsored youth from Gloucester, MA) and I had in Washington, DC, advocating for the REAL Act along side other passionate people of faith. Some words to describe the SEAT training that we attended would be inspiring, empowering, eye-opening and humbling. We bring back with us the responsibility to inform and educate our communities and lawmakers about the importance of comprehensive sexuality education in our lives.
This year Promise sponsored a youth from Gloucester to attend SEAT with me. Zoe was chosen by the SEAT organizers to be a media contact and was featured in both the Boston Globe as well as on New England Cable News! Zoe has proven herself to be a stellar example of our youth today and our future for tomorrow. Her passion exemplifies our mission to educate youth to use their voice for issues that are important to them!
Since 2005, Unitarian Universalist youth and adults have gathered for the annual SEAT (Sexual Education Advocacy Training) event. Together with faith allies from the United Church of Christ and Union of Reform Judaism, advocates speak to their congressional representatives in Washington, DC about the importance of comprehensive, medically accurate sexuality education to our congregations,our communities, our youth, and our families. SEAT teaches youth, young adults and adult allies how to be effective advocates for comprehensive sexuality education through workshops on community organizing, advocacy and anti-racism/anti-oppression. The training is organized and facilitated by staff of Advocates for Youth, UUA, UCC, URJ, and Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Choice (SYRF).
I encourage you all to check out these organizations and the links to the media focus on our sponsored youth. We are so grateful to have had this experience and so excited to bring back what we learned to our communities. Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding SEAT and keep it in mind next year for yourself or a youth in your community.
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