Program

Torch is a youth focused, peer education program that combin

Torch is a youth focused, peer education program that combines sexual and reproductive health/rights/justice education and leadership training for New York city black and brown youth. The program incorporates youth driven community action initiatives and fosters strong community partnerships to provide knowledge and empowerment opportunities for young people to make informed choices; to create a new generation of the sexual reproductive justice movement by fostering awareness and activism; and to offer accessible comprehensive sexuality education, that is medically accurate and inclusive of various identities and experiences.Program service accomplishments: of community-based organizations on topics ranging from contraception to healthy adolescent relationships to exploring gender identity to body image and self-esteem. Torch peer leaders also developed and facilitated an entirely youth led teen night on rape culture. Over 40 young people from across nyc participated in this event. Additionally, torch staff presented at two national conferences on the intersectionality of race and sexuality and how to advance social justice in the sex ed classroom. Torch continued to strengthen community relationships in the bronx and Brooklyn to build on the comprehensive site project which will bring youth informed comprehensive sexuality education to nyc public school students in low no resource neighborhoods during the school day.

Service Area:

Expenses: $367,959.00
Year: 2021

Locations

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Parent Organization

National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

New York, NY
Mission

Part 1: national institute for reproductive health, Inc. Works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. Using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and local advocates and leaders, nirh seeks to create a policy climate that supports the freedom and ability of each person to control their reproductive and sexual lives, fosters thriving families, and destigmatizes abortion and contraception. It is the only national organization focused solely on working with state and local groups, using a robust partnership model to find and implement creative solutions that improve access to reproductive health care in their communities while simultaneously building the skillsets, capacity, and range of organizations committed to this work. By advocating alongside and arming state and local advocates with the tools they need to advance reproductive freedom in their communities and by making connections within and across

  • Website: http://WWW.NIRHEALTH.ORG
  • Phone: 2123432031
  • Principal Officer: ANDREA MILLER
  • EIN
    EIN: 133030257
  • Revenue: $4810079
  • Assets: $6196061
  • Expenses: $5758130

National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

New York, NY 10005