After a lot of discussion, thought, and excitement, the YPAR group's sex ed survey is finally live! We created, reviewed, piloted, edited, and did the process again. It was a real collaborative process, and I'm impressed with what the group came up with. Also, someone on our team is like a Qualtrics superstar, so we are using fancy survey software. Legit. (To be clear, that someone is not me.)
Also legit is that we came up with a team name, "Reaction for Action." Get it? because we are looking to get young people's reactions about sex ed in order to take action and change things! Right now, we're in the data collection phase. Some of us tabled at a community event on Friday, and there were a number of young people who were excited about the opportunity to share their opinions. It affirmed that this whole project is relevant and important to young people.
All of this is to say, if you are or know someone who is 13-24 and went to middle or high school in Minnesota, please consider taking the survey! We'll be sharing it out through our networks and social media, and we'll also be publicizing it at the Annex's booth at Twin Cities Pride this coming weekend. We're hoping to hear from at least 300 people, from a broad, diverse group of people. After that, our focus will be analyzing the data, figuring out what it means for us, and using it. I'm really excited about what that looks like, everyone is going to have SO many great ideas.