How Can Foster Youth Use Birth Control on Their Terms?

Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life

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How do hormonal and non-hormonal birth control methods work? How can you properly use birth control? As a young person in the foster care system, how can you advocate for yourself? The good news is there is no one-size-fits-all approach. It’s all about what works best for you.
Kat and Brandy of RHEP’s Youth Advisory Board talk about their personal experiences with birth control and provide an overview of the variety of birth control methods available.

Content Advisory: The stories we are sharing sometimes touch on different kinds of trauma, please take care of yourself while you listen.

Host:
Kat, Youth Advisory Board Member

Participants:
Brandy, Youth Advisory Board member

Resources:

Visit Bedsider for more information on birth control methods.

About Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life:
Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life is a podcast from foster youth, for foster youth, with unfiltered conversations about puberty, relationships, sexual health, identity, and much more that we wish were part of our upbringing. It is hosted by the youth advisory board of the Reproductive Health Equity Project at the National Center for Youth Law.
Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life is supported through a grant to the National Center for Youth Law from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. We are very grateful for their support. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Hilton Foundation.

Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life is produced in California. Laws, policies and programs discussed in this episode may be specific to California.
Watch our episodes at https://rhep.info/self-taught.
Learn more about the podcast and the Reproductive Health Equity Project at www.fosterreprohealth.org
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1. How Can Foster Youth Use Birth Control on Their Terms? (00:00:00)

2. What types of birth control have you tried? (00:00:57)

3. Understanding how to use a particular form of birth control (00:04:02)

4. Accessing emergency contraception (00:08:10)

5. Is sterilization an option? (00:09:10)

6. Myths around healthcare and birth control (00:10:54)