Need an abortion and don’t know where to go or how to pay for it? There’s an app (well, a website) for that. You have options.
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RISE has a new home and are working on spiffing it up—and you can help!
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We know things are hopping at this time of year, but here are some easy ways you can help RISE continue it’s work—and maybe even make your life a little simpler!
RISE t-shirts as holiday gifts
Donations in lieu of gifts
Make RISE: Healthy for Life your Amazon Smile beneficiary for a year
etc.
Do you ever take muffins to work to share? Or brownies or donuts or cookies?
Next time you do, consider putting a price on your homemade goodness for a good cause!
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The policy as proposed is unprecedented as it would codify discriminatory language in district policies and, even if the law should change, the policy would continue until changed again by the school board.
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From presentations to teen programming, from TriPride to actively fighting hate in our area, RISE is always busy—and we can’t do any of this without our wonderful volunteers and donors. Just look what you have made possible, and check the bottom of this post for actions you can take to stop hate in our state and support RISE’s work!
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We’ll miss you, Astonish. Thanks for the TikTok lessons, all your hard work and creativity, and your adventurous spirit! It was fun!
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What does racial justice and equity in a sex education classroom look like? Check out the Sex Education Collaborative’s latest Practice Paper, Centering Racial Justice in Sex Education: Strategies for Engaging Professionals and Young People, to learn more!
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…RISE has been mobilized every day since fall of 2017. RISE provides responsible, inclusive sexuality education for people of all ages, trauma-informed care training, and programming about the wonderful diversity of humanity, and we work with community partners so we all have greater capacity for this work.
You can help either as a volunteer or by donating to fund our work—or both!
Click here to find out more about the work we do, the challenges we face, and the ways you can help.
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Join us for Stellar Sex Ed on April 27th at the Johnson City Public Library. Stellar Sex Ed engages adult participants in an expansive exploration of our inner and outer space. Free of judgment, Stellar Sex Ed dismantles stigma and invites honest, compassionate curiosity about bodies, identities, and relationships. Welcome to a new age of sexuality education!
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Sharing our values out loud, RISE collaborated on this Op Ed in the Jan. 19 2022 of the Tennessean newspaper (Nashville).
"Tennesseans need responsible, inclusive, fact-based reproductive health and relationship education. This type of education reduces violence, unintended pregnancy and STI contraction—all of which Tennessee sees at alarmingly high rates."
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Collective Impact for Emotional and Sexual Health (CIESH) is releasing a survey to examine interactions with service providers after sexual assault to determine how we all can better serve survivors in our community, and how services might be more empowering and trauma-responsive.
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Over the past 8 weeks Bonnie Sepora, executive director for Friends of Diversty, and Cindi Huss, RISE managing director, have learned from each other about approaches to communication, legislative change, and litigation as they relate to sex ed and LGBTQ+ issues in Botswana and the United States.
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RISE: Healthy for Life is lucky to have not one, not two, but FIVE students working with us this semester! We are so grateful for the opportunity to work with these passionate, creative, inquisitive students to do meaningful work that will benefit so many folx in our area!
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As a result of Sex Ed on the Hill, six additional members of Congress have already announced their co-sponsorship of REAHYA (Real Education and Access to Healthy Youth Act of 2021): Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragan, Rep. David Price, Rep. Cynthia Axne, and Rep. Lori Trahan. RISE’s own Cindi Huss led the meeting with Rep. Price’s staffer.
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