The ACLU of Illinois mourns the loss of board member Henry "Harry" Chandler. Chandler was an advocate for people with disabilities and board chair at the disability rights organization Access Living in addition to being a board member of the ACLU of Illinois among several other non-profit organizations. The Chicago Tribune ran his obituary.

As a board member and chairman for Access Living, Henry "Harry" Chandler Jr. was a soft-spoken and effective advocate for people with disabilities. But his contributions to the community didn't stop there.

"He was thoughtful about issues of civil liberties, the environment and public transit," said Marca Bristo, president and CEO of Access Living, which provides services and advocacy for people with a wide variety of disabilities.

Mr. Chandler, a quadriplegic who used a wheelchair after a surfing accident when he was in college, was on the boards of several other community organizations, including the Chicago Transit Board, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and Openlands, Bristo said.

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Campus Progress reports about a recent study done by the Cook County Department of Public Health that surveyed 1,718 students at 20 suburban public high schools about health issues. The data released reinforces a need for a comprehensive sexual health education program in Illinois that, in addition to stressing abstinence, teaches medically accurate and age-appropriate information about sexual health.

Responses indicated that 37 percent of teens have had sex—61 percent of African-American teens, 49 percent of Hispanic teens, and 24 percent of white teens.

“As a public health department, we support the need for comprehensive sex education in our schools, and we know we do not have it,” Amy Poore, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Health, told Campus Progress. “And teens are still engaging in these sexual behaviors.”

Poore said most schools teach an abstinence-only curriculum.

With so many teens engaging in sex, it’s crucial that they learn how to protect themselves, advocates say.

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