AMAZE in the News

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Advocates for Youth, an organization that promotes sexual education for young people, just started its own YouTube channel, Amaze, featuring animated videos targeted at those 10 to 14.

Many of the educators quoted in this piece mention the AMAZE videos, and similar online resources.

Quezada says she likes AMAZE videos because she and her peers need trusted information, which you can't always find on Google.

Porn is like many movies, it is completely made up," AMAZE reminds us in their video about the unrealistic expectations of porn.

...tweens, parents, and educators who use AMAZE as a resource learn about adolescent sexual life as it truly is: a boisterous and sometimes confusing melange of curiosity, doubt, and exploration.

A new sex education video series...is aiming to start an age-appropriate conversation around consent and sexual assault.

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AMAZE's most, well, amazing feature is that it offers free, credible information, thus removing a huge financial barrier for educators.

Amaze.org [is] a nonprofit partnership that aims to make sex ed engaging, informative and less weird for young adolescents.

To Save Sex Education Under Trump, Amaze.org Is Turning to New Media. The organization has taken a digital-first approach to providing America's youth with sex education.

I’m also a big fan of Amaze’s animated video 'Porn: Fact or Fiction.'

The latest and perhaps most inventive yet is AMAZE, an online library of short, funny sex education videos geared toward teaching middle schoolers about puberty, gender identity, sexual orientation, and healthy relationships.

To bust myths about one of the most stigmatized STIs, the folks at AMAZE.org have created a new animated sex ed video.

AMAZE focuses on educating youth through short animated videos on a wide range of topics: gender identity, sexual orientation, STDs, etc. And Advocates for Youth works to educate parents, school boards and communities on what comprehensive sex ed does, and why it works.

Advocates for Youth...has supplemented traditional sex ed programs with a series of videos called AMAZE for kids aged 10 to 14, on everything from puberty to porn.

AMAZE is a series of sex-education videos aimed at younger adolescents (those 10 to 14), an age group that’s often overlooked by programs focusing on older teens who are already having sex or likely to have sex soon.

AMAZE is serving as a true trailblazer for reforming American sex education.

In 2008, the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County launched an initiative to lower Milwaukee's high rate of teen childbirths.

When the AMAZE initiative launched in September 2016, the goal was to provide comprehensive sex ed videos to children between the ages of 10 and 14. The short, animated videos are accessible and age-appropriate — and they prove that it’s never too early to start talking with children about consent.

AMAZE may be here to rescue or sex ed dilemma in this nation. With the news that some communities only teach abstinence and hard telling what they say or are allowed to mention about the LGBT community, many students go to the internet.

Overall, there has been a surge of new HIV diagnoses in people between 13 and 24 of all orientations, genders, and races. Following the release the statistics, AMAZE decided to release a new video that schools young people on HIV prevention and treatment.

AMAZE is a sex education video series for children ages 10 to 14. It hopes to bring a more modern, kid-friendly face to lessons that can be, best-case scenario, awkward and uncomfortable. Launched last September, AMAZE covers traditional topics like puberty and masturbation, along with more progressive topics.

This Staples High School junior’s video called “Wise on the Web” was selected to be featured on the national platform of AMAZE.org.

I was a little squeamish to talk about these subjects with my daughter. So I was delighted to find out that AMAZE — a collaboration between Advocates for Youth, Answer, and Youth Tech Health — created an online sex education resource for young adolescents.

The sex ed they do get from their schools is oftentimes outdated, patronizing, and ignorant of modern-day realities like sexting and same-sex relationships. A new YouTube series called AMAZE is hoping to change that.

Bushwick High Schoolers Film Award-Winning Sex Ed Video. The video, which won the AMAZE young animator contest, talks candidly about sex in a way young people will want to digest.

Amaze.org, dirigido a los adolescentes, explica la sexualidad con ilustraciones y animación para que padres e hijos resuelvan sus dudas.

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Talking About Sex with Your Kids #MoreInfoLessWeird, Kimberly Miller

Tips For Making The “Sex Talk” Less Awkward, Kelly Hutchinson

Talking Puberty with Help from AMAZE, Aliah Davis

Tools For Making The Puberty & Sex Talk Easier: AMAZE Takes The Awkward Out Of Sex Education, Amanda Taylor

How To Talk To Your Kids About Boobs, Boners, & Sex, Alicia Gonzalez

Kids Sex Education: Here’s How Parents Can Start Talking About It, Makeba Giles