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- 1. Know Your IX, along with the ACLU, filed a lawsuit to block provisions of the Department of Education’s harmful ____ rule, which slashed schools’ obligations to respond to reports of sexual harassment and assault.
- 5. The policy team successfully coordinated a virtual ____ during the Youth Activist Institute, which garnered 121 phone calls to 72 Members of Congress about 8 federal bills that advance young people’s reproductive and sexual health and rights (2 words).
- 7. We supported a youth fellow at the New Orleans Abortion Fund, AOL youth activists, and state partners to canvass, educate, and build strategy in pushing back against a harmful ballot initiative in the state of _____.
- 8. We helped lead the coalition strategy to submit over 7,000 public comments in opposition to the harmful proposed rule to expand the Global ______ (2 words).
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- 2. We’ve added ___ staff to the policy team in the last six months!
- 3. Helped lead the introductions of multiple federal bills, including two new bills: the Abortion is Healthcare Everywhere Act and the Supporting Survivors of Sexual ____ in Schools Act.
- 4. Advocates, in partnership with URGE, led a sign-on letter targeting Senate and House Leadership to prioritize the health, safety, and well-being of young people in the ____ Relief Bill. It garnered the endorsement of 80 organizations and nearly 800 young people and was read into the record in a congressional hearing on COVID.
- 5. In the beginning of the pandemic, we had to switch gears quickly and hosted a successful NYHAAD Congressional Briefing, with a virtual panel that featured youth activists and staff from the office of Congresswoman Barbara _____.
- 6. The policy team has signed onto over 75 sign-on letters, amicus briefs, and endorsed over 30 federal ____ in the last year.
- 9. We officially launched the Youth ____ Access Table, in partnership with URGE and If/When/How, to develop new policy advocacy, culture shift, and power building strategies to eliminate forced parental involvement and ensure young people’s unencumbered access to confidential abortion care.