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Many local, state, and federal government responses to COVID-19 have utterly failed to keep the majority of people in the country safe from the virus. … Read More

  On August 4, 2020, URGE joined with 188 other local, state, and federal organizations in a letter calling on our federal leaders to support … Read More

Access to comprehensive reproductive health care is critical for young people, especially during a public health emergency. Young people encounter persistent barriers to accessing the care and information they need to make decisions about pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and their sexual health.

Young people and historically marginalized communities have called for bold democracy reform and an expansion of voting rights in Ohio and across the country. In … Read More

Young people deserve sex ed that is gender inclusive, trauma-informed, free of stigma, and allows for conversations surrounding pleasure.

Current requirements for sex education in Alabama are sex negative, homophobic, medically inaccurate, culturally incompetent, ineffective, and do not provide the kind of information young people want and need to live happy and healthy sexual lives.

The sexual health programming in Ohio’s public schools is not mandated to be medically accurate, age-appropriate, culturally competent, and is not prohibited from promoting religion or biased information.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every facet of society, unveiling how current systems have and continue to fail communities in Ohio and across the … Read More