by Elise Joy | Advocacy, Education, On Campus, Policy / News
Since Fall 2024, New Jersey law has required all public schools to provide free menstrual products, tampons and pads, in student bathrooms for students in grades 6 through 12. The cost is fully reimbursed by the NJ Department of Education, meaning there is no net...
by Elise Joy | Advocacy, Behind the Scenes
GHGP started nearly a decade ago when my family learned that students in our school were regularly missing school due to a lack of period supplies. We had such a phenomenal response to our request for community donations that we were able to make a significant...
by Elise Joy | Education, On Campus, Reproductive Health
I don’t have any traumatic memories of going to the school nurse when I was in middle or high school, having to ask for a pad because I had gotten my period unexpectedly, or had forgotten what I needed at home. It’s not that I never went to the nurse; I just never...
