Our Director of Innovation and Research, Dr. Genevieve Martínez-García, shares more on why Healthy Teen Network is #StandingStrong for #SexEdForAll, in this short video:

Our society has a responsibility to support and empower young people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives, and that includes sexual lives.

For too long, we’ve let the disease-prevention model monopolize sex ed, casting all adolescent sexual activity in the narrowest, most sex-negative of lights, failing to include all youth and stigmatizing young people who may become pregnant or choose to parent.

We can do better. We must do better.

We cannot be misled by fear, stigma, phobia, discrimination…and certainly not ideology.

And that’s why Healthy Teen Network is dedicated to standing strong for all young people. We do our part by making sure professionals have the critical trainings and resources so that young people receive fact-based and sex positive education and access to services, and that they are empowered to lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives.

Why “Sex Ed for All”? Because it’s a human right.