Getting Concerned about the Different Issues of the Youth

ISSUE NO.1

          *A growing number of youth are engaging in risky behavior without understanding its consequences.

• Include adolescent health issues in basic courses.

• Train teachers

• Enact law on RH

• Assign professional counselors in schools

• More innovative programs to reach the youth

ISSUE NO.2

            *Adults do not know how to communicate openly about sexuality with young people.

• Lack of parental guidance

ISSUE NO.3

          *Media is playing a bigger role in young lives.

• Strengthen family ties

• Advocacy especially to parents

• Parent-child encounter program

            *Violent connotations conveyed by media and ads.

            Proliferation of porno materials.

• Promote proper values

• Suspend students who read porno

 ISSUE NO.4

            *RH policies, programs and services ignore the youth’s needs.

• Sexual harassment in the workplace and in campus.

• Discrimination against gays and pregnant women in workplace.
• Youth have no access to health services and info in workplace.

• Physical and sexual abuse of street youth by policemen.

• Youth activities seem difficult to sustain.

• No law to provide RH services to adolescents.

• Push for ordinances to protect the youth

• Accessible health services in the workplace

• Street educators to help the youth

• Don’t limit youth programs to sports

• Programs must be sustained

 ISSUE NO.5

            *The voice of the youth must be heard in all youth-related efforts.

• RH education needs were designed for adults

• Youth leaders are not fully equipped to serve their young constituents

• Lobby for AHYD

• Capability training for SK leaders

• More youth-friendly facilities

• Mobilize the youth