Mystics team up with Ashley and Wynonna Judd for YouthAIDS forum
June 28, 2006 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Washington Mystics News Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Washington Mystics Foundation is proud to partner with YouthAIDS to create YouthAIDS Day on July 27th at Verizon Center. The celebrity event will bring together upwards of a thousand local teens to participate in a day-long event beginning with a forum, followed by the Mystics versus Chicago Sky game at 7:00 p.m., and ending with a concert by country music legend Wynonna Judd.
The YouthAIDS forum, which will take place from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., will be hosted by YouthAIDS Global Ambassador Ashley Judd and Youth AIDS Music Ambassador Wynonna Judd, as well as a panel of peer educators from DC based Metro Teen AIDS with the assistance of Hip Hop Forum hosts Adimu and Kira Means. Participants will be educated about the current AIDS crisis in the Washington D.C. area and around the world and will meet young people their age living with AIDS. Moderators Ashley and Wynonna Judd will facilitate dialogue among the youth and help deliver AIDS information..
Tickets to both the game and the post-game concert can be purchased for the same price by calling 1-877-DC Hoop1 or by visiting the Mystics web site at www.washingtonmystics.com. Part of the proceeds will go to support the work of Youth Aids.
For additional information about the Mystics, visit the web site, www.washingtonmystics.com. For more information about Youth AIDS, log onto www.youthaids.org.
The Washington Mystics Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering and improving the health and well-being of youth in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The efforts of the Foundation shall serve as a model for health and wellness programs not only in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area but across the nation with its innovative and creative approach.
YouthAIDS, an education and prevention initiative of PSI, uses media, pop culture, music, theatre and sport to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and reach 600 million young people in more than 60 countries with life-saving messages, products, services and care.
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