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Youth Advisory Council (YAC)

The YAC ensures that the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative and U Choose Campaign has a youth voice.

What is the YAC?

The YAC (Youth Advisory Council) is a group of Baltimore City teens working to ensure that the UChoose Campaign has youth voice and leadership.

What will I gain as a YAC member?

  • Provide guidance and feedback to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (within the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health) and Bureau of HIV/STDs

  • Engage in leadership and skill building activities

  • Become a peer health advocate around reproductive health and STIs

  • Mobilize other young people to raise awareness of the U Choose campaign in neighborhoods with the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STIs

What does the YAC do?

  • Meet bi-monthly

  • Learn different health topics affecting teens

  • Provide feedback on campaign messages

  • Plan and conduct outreach activities for youth in the city

  • Develop creative and artistic projects for education of youth and outreach

Are you interested in becoming a youth advisor?

Do you fit these critera?

  • Aged between 14-20

  • Live in Baltimore City

  • Commit to regular participation

  • Have appropriate parental consent, if under 18

  • Interested in helping other youth be empowered about their future

If so, apply to join:

Complete an application

Current Youth Advisors

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KnowWhatUWant.org was developed by the Baltimore City Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative with additional information provided by the Association of Reproductive Health ProfessionalsBedsiderThe National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, and Planned Parenthood. All birth control photography is property of bedsider.org and used with permission.

Know What U Want is a project of the Baltimore City Health Department and The Family League of Baltimore with the support of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, The Maryland Institute College of Art, New Lens, The Abell Foundation, The Straus Foundation, The David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation and The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation.

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