Monitor what now?

Now that we understand the goals and objectives we believe would benefit the current Age of Consent policy, how would we monitor and evaluate the goals that we hope to implement? 

Assuming that as of now (figuratively speaking of course) that the Age of Consent policy is more inclusive, is more easily understood by the general public, and is more easily accessible to teens, how do we know if these recommendations have made an impact?

Since the Age of Consent policy refers to a very intimate and private act between two (or more!) individuals, it would be hard to monitor the direct impact it has on consenting adolescents. 
There are a number of ways we could gather information in order to better understand if the education and awareness has had an impact on individual sexual choices and actions. 

One way that we could get sensitive information could be through anonymous qualitative and quantative research asking teens whether their knowledge (or lack thereof) of the Age of Consent laws have impacted their sexual decision making in any way implementation of this could be tricky, depending on how it could be distributed but this could provide valuable information in future improvements to the policy.

We could monitor and evaluate inclusion by asking people to participate in writing the Age of Consent policy itself. We would hope to ask groups of people who have historically been excluded from this process, to participate in order to help develop an overall anti-oppressive policy. We would encourage a community approach to writing the policy, and this would include making the language accessible to the general public. If the language is understood, the policy itself becomes accessible to greater society.

When attempting to monitor and evaluate the awareness and education efforts set forth by the policy, we could send out questionnaires or surveys to adolescents within the education system seeking confidential responses as to when first contact with the policy occurred, how often, or if it had never occurred. We could request feedback from adolescents in sex ed classes whether or not discussion surrounding the Age of Consent is sufficient and/or whether or not the Age of Consent is even discussed at all.

- A and L.L.