Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom

Last updated on: September 19, 2012 at 6:00 am by Caryn Riswold

Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom 2012-09-11T09:55:06-06:00 Caryn Riswold

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One of the best things about participating in the Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute at The Center for American Progress this year has been working with people involved in organizations doing amazing work at this intersection.

One of them is the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which I’ve written about previously. I was particularly excited to find out about the program called Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom, or SYRF.

Here’s a little bit about them:

Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom (SYRF) educates, organizes and empowers youth and young adults (ages 16-30) to put their faith into action and advocate for pro-choice social justice.

SYRF creates venues for youth education and activism, designs youth-specific materials, and builds lasting relationships with youth oriented organizations, campus clergy, and youth programs of our denominations.

Since young people lead this program, SYRF lifts up pro-faith youth and young adult perspectives on reproductive choice issues and provides young people with tools and opportunities to advocate for choice on their campuses, high schools, congregations and communities.

As someone who has spent a dozen years working with young people on college campuses, I’m as excited about this program as I have been about the Interfaith Youth Core. Two programs recognizing that empowering young people to participate in social change is key. Two programs that work to raise the profile of diversity, inclusion, and service to the community. Two programs that take seriously the ways in which young people are searching for ways to understand their faith as relevant to the world in which they live.

And two programs that challenge the idea that the younger generation is apathetic, disengaged, or unwilling to do anything to work for justice.

How great is that.

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