Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health

At icah, we educate, advocate, organize, and shift culture through arts-based programming, sex ed, adult ally cultivation, and developing youth leaders and organizers. for over three decades of our 45 year history, we've trained young people to organize around the reproductive justice (rj) issues impacting their lives and communities. Our powerful youth-led organizing, advocacy, and education - including groundbreaking performances, messaging, research, and actions - have sparked important cultural shifts and policy changes that have sent ripples across the midwest and beyond. Our work bridges youth organizing and arts-based strategies. Driven by the conviction that cultural problems demand cultural solutions, all of icah's programs integrate a rigorous cultural strategy. We use art to uproot shame and stigma by infusing otherwise difficult conversations with pleasure and joy. Through our strategic plan, icah's current focus is uplifting disability justice, economic justice, and healing justice and how they intersect with rj.