by KYW’s Nancy Griffin

Teen sexuality will be discussed at a conference for middle and high school students of faith on August 16th.
 
Dr. Kimberlee Johnson of Eastern University says youth and ministers are invited to a day of interactive games, seminars, entertainment and prizes -- and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be on hand to provide free HIV and STD testing:

“’O Yes’, the title of the conference actually was the brainstorming of a number of youth and it is an acronym for ‘Our Youth Enlightened About Sex’.”
 
Johnson says it's time for church leaders and parents to stop burying their heads in the sand:
 
"Youth who are in churches are having sex. They're becoming teen parents; eight out of ten adolescent mothers end up in poverty and I think we have really have discussions with young people about the challenges and the temptations that they have."

For more information on the O Yes Conference, go to http://eastern.edu/academic/ccgps/ssc/youth/oyes/index.html