A Report Card on Sex Ed for All in the City of Alexandria

For Immediate Release: July 19, 2024
Media Contact: CYCP Coordinator Chelsea Eickert, 571.447.8132 or [email protected].

Alexandria, Va- The City of Alexandria Children & Youth Community Plan 2025 (CYCP) sets long-term priorities and provides a roadmap to success through community-wide coordination and delivery of services to all city children from birth to 21 years-old and their families.

CYCP 2025 goals include ensuring that all children, youth and families: 1) are physically safe and healthy 2) are academically successful and career ready and 3) have positive experiences.

Each month, the CYCP highlights areas of progress through the CYCP Report Card. Here, the CYCP looks at the progress made inproviding youth with accurate sexual health information and access to reproductive health care services.

See the entire Report Card on Sex Ed for Alland find out how the Alexandria Campaign on Adolescent Pregnancy (ACAP) and other CYCP collaborators have worked to ensure that young people have complete and culturally appropriate sexual health information at age-appropriate levels and access to sexual and reproductive health care services. Also see teen pregnancy rate data trends.

As a partner in the group comprising the City's Unified Implementation Team, the Department of Community and Human Services CYCP Coordinator is working with Alexandria City Public Schools and the Alexandria Health Department to align their three respective strategic plans in areas of shared goals. The Team is guided by three principles: 1) trauma-informed approaches to raise awareness of the prevalenceof trauma and target root causes 2) racial equity, which aims to correct systems and policies that negatively impact Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and 3) the use of developmental assets to mitigate adverse childhood experiences.

Learn what resources and services exist for youth and families in the city and how they can be accessed. Also, check out thenew Youth and Family Resource Guide in English| Spanish| Amharic.

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