Blogs

We have job opportunities with both PHASE and FCC. Please share these opportunities with any teen women (and men!) you know. We're looking for teens excited about getting their voices heard, and working to improve the lives of their peers. On top of becoming peer educators and youth advocates, teens will receive a $7.50 an hour wage working 30 hours per week this summer. Please check out the links to applications for both the Peer Health And Sexuality Education and the Foster Care Campaign. Interviews start soon! Click on "How to Get Involved" under FCC or PHASE for application materials.

 March 16, 2010, marked the Foster Care Campaign's second visit to Washington lawmaker's, this time to the Senate! FCC teen staff member Sarah Ocran testified to the the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia at the request of Senators Daniel Akaka and Mary Landrieu.

On January 22,2010, the teen staff of the Foster Care Campaign took another huge step in shedding light on the issues facing older foster youth and putting them on the map. At the request of Councilmember Tommy Wells, FCC youth organized a hearing on the education, living conditions and aging out of youth in the system.

Word is spreading about the Young Women's Project! We would like to thank our supporters at the blackyouthproject.com blog for writing about the work that the Foster Care Campaign and Peer Health and Sexuality Education teens are doing.

The PHASE teen staff is in the news! Leslie Cameron and Folami Irby-Motley were featured in an October 22, 2009 Washington Post article on their testimony to DC Council.

Read more to hear about the excellent advocacy from these teen women.

Fall season is definitely in swing here at the Young Women's Project. We're glad to have some of the youth staff back, and excited about what's to come! Here are just a few things taking shape:

Here at the Young Women’s Project, one of our core values is that our work be youth-focused and youth-led. Admittedly this is sometimes a challenge, for both the adult and teen staff.  But we are often reminded of the power that each of our youth possesses, and it’s an awesome experience watching them discover it.

Even though the teen staff is on break for a while longer, YWP is still excited about all that the PHASE staff accomplished this summer. From trainings to advocacy work to research, these young women are doing all that they can to improve the reproductive health of teens in DC.

Read on to check out just a sampling of all that they’ve done!

Can't believe it's September. The summer session has ended and YWP is gearing up for a great fall. The office is definitely quiet without the youth around but we are continuing to work hard on much of the work we started this summer.