We acknowledge the deep intersectional connection between sexual health and oppression. We accept our responsibility to continuously examine our privilege and positionality, practice cultural humility, seek opportunities to broaden our understanding, and hold ourselves accountable. We commit to anti-oppressive practices in our board, staff, and all programming and partnerships. We will work toward rights, justice, and liberation for all youth, and we recognize that dismantling systems of oppression is a key part of the broad structural changes needed in this work.

We commit to centering youth voices–especially those most marginalized–and working alongside young people to ensure that all MOASH work is youth-informed from start to finish. We commit to ensuring that our partnerships are genuinely meaningful for youth as well as the organization, including providing fair compensation for their time. We support youth in building the skills and accessing the tools needed to recognize their own agency and make the choices best for them with respect to their sexual health, relationships, and personal development. We do this work through our anti-oppression framework in order to shift the conditions that limit youth autonomy and self-determination.

We commit to developing and maintaining authentic, meaningful relationships when working alongside communities and other organizations. We understand that true and successful partnerships require mutual investment, trust, transparency, and the open sharing of resources. We commit to being responsive to community needs and standing in solidarity with existing community efforts. We will be flexible, creative, and adaptable in our approaches to programming.