Creating Safe And Healthy Communities
The ability to live safely in one’s community is one of the most basic elements of a dignified life. However, across the United States, young people – particularly young women, young people of color, immigrant youth, and LGBTQIA+ youth – are faced with active threats to their safety: sexual violence, discriminatory policing, immigration enforcement, and environmental degradation are daily and persistent in young people’s lives.
To ensure the safety of all young people, we need policies that support healthy, safe, and secure families and communities.
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Sep 11, 2025
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Press Release
Statement from Shante Wolfe, Southeastern State Field Director at URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, on recent threats targeting HBCU campuses triggering lockdowns. “Today’s …
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Jul 01, 2025
Young people deserve a future where we are trusted, resourced, and free. But Trump’s budget does the opposite—it attacks our rights, strips funding from our …
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May 07, 2025
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Menstrual inequity, period poverty, and economic hardship are ongoing issues impacting people throughout Alabama. Period poverty is a lack of access to menstrual hygiene products, …
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