THE ALABAMA CAMPAIGN

CHAMPIONING YOUTH

We envision access to comprehensive sexual health for adolescents throughout Alabama and advance our mission to champion healthy adolescent development through medically accurate and equitable sexual health education and services.

Does Alabama pass or fail on sex ed?

SIECUS just released their 2025 State Profiles, and Alabama gets an overall grade of C- on sex education. Alabama doesn’t mandate sex education, and if it’s taught it must emphasize abstinence. Thanks to a 2021 update to the law, sex education must be medically accurate, but unfortunately there is no requirement to teach about consent,…

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Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Dies in the Senate, Plus More Lege News!

The Alabama Legislature adjourned sine die (meaning “with no appointed date for resumption”) on May 14. Here’s what we watched this session, and where it ended up. SB277 – We are thrilled to report that SB277, which would have prohibited all sex education except “sexual risk avoidance” (aka abstinence-only-until-marriage) in public schools, failed for the second…

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COMMUNITY

Our Core Beliefs

The Alabama Campaign believes in the capacity of youth and in supporting that capacity through information, education, and empowerment.

The Alabama Campaign believes in the support of parents, caregivers, community-based organizations, schools, faith communities, and policy makers in addressing adolescent sexual health.

The Alabama Campaign believes in access to medically accurate and comprehensive sexual health information and care.

The Alabama Campaign believes in the diversity of opinion and the power of partnerships to affect positive change for adolescent sexual health through advocacy and awareness.

The Alabama Campaign believes in providing sexual health education that addresses the diverse needs of adolescents in Alabama regardless of race, ability, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and faith.

The Alabama Campaign believes in providing support for pregnant and parenting adolescents for the development of healthy families and strong communities.

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Learn more about geographically specific information on teen pregnancy and teen birth

Autauga County

Baldwin County