Taking Action Through
Anti-Oppressive Recommendations

Over a six month period, the Youth Sexual Health Program Board developed a robust set of sector-specific recommendations and action steps to improve sexual health in Colorado. These recommendations offer a starting point towards affecting systems-level change within the youth sexual health field.

As organizations take action upon the anti-oppressive recommendations, partners must embrace the core boundaries and liberating practices in their work plans as strategies for how they will plan and implement immediate and future action. This involves evaluating how youth will be involved across initiatives; assessing who is most impacted by systems of oppression and intentionally engaging these communities to prioritize their needs; and exploring how organizational power and influence will be used to ensure that youth sexual health education is grounded in inclusion, accessibility, pleasure, and joy.