Sex Ed. : Get Some

"SEX ED.:GET SOME" or S.E.G.S. for short is an initiative led by young people to empower youth with access and education about how to best protect their bodies and futures in a climate where the wrong information or lack of information teamed with sexual pressure can result in life altering consequences. How does it work? Young people make and distribute high quality media that other young people will enjoy and learn from while being informed of how to reduce their risk and improve their future outcomes. Media includes viral videos, along with phone apps and flash games. There would also be a hotline component where youth with questions could call or text a real person anonymously to find out where to get resources, education, and/or advice. Finally, SEGS hopes to integrate online game worlds with social media to send the right messages as an answer to many of the wrong messages being sent to young people about sex, risk, protection, and detection. Is it just for youth? Young people are leading this to save other young people but there is also an effort built into what SEGS does that hopes to make it easier for parents, pastors, and professionals to talk to young people about proud and responsible choices, including sexual ones. Young people want to ask the hard questions and expect the hard answers but need to know who they go to will be discreet and won't be judgemental. Training adults on the right information and how to present that to youth is vital. How is it sustained? Creative revenue streams along with the typical donations requested upon services like the hotline or textline, movie screenings, emails, and drives are included like by having ads in the free apps and flash games and offering ad less apps for a premium. Clinics and other organizations featured in apps would provide a nominal fee in exchange for likely visits from the media's audience. After early investment this would sustain hotlines, media production, and PR for SEGS.