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Advocacy Case Study: Menstrual Dignity for Students Toolkit

When it comes to menstrual health advocacy, Days for Girls believes in the power of unity โ€“ and learning from the policy wins of others. Thatโ€™s why weโ€™re excited to highlight Oregon State, USA’s ๐Œ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐’๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐“๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ญ!

This awesome toolkit outlines the objectives of ๐Ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง’๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐€๐œ๐ญ, which requires provision of period products in public schools.

Itโ€™s a fantastic example of what it takes to make policy ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ (by equipping readers with practical information) and how to empower stakeholders to leverage bill provisions for lasting change.

As Days for Girls advocates and partners champion similar legislation across the country, this resource is a great blueprint for navigating what happens ๐˜ข๐˜ง๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ a bill is passed โ€“ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž.


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