“There’s a lot of misinformation about what happens when you teach people about sex ed — the idea it might sexualize people, or cause them to have sex. But we know that that’s not true.”
Since its founding in 2006, Healthy Futures has offered the Big Decisions curriculum targeted toward eighth- and ninth-graders — the nonprofit’s “bread and butter,” he said. It is now designing a second one, On My Way, focused on fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders to help them as they go through puberty.
“I remember I had given blood a couple weeks before, and I was convinced they were going to call me and tell me that I had AIDS, even though I had never had sex in my life,” he said. “Just like wild fear. I grew up with such a sense of fear around sex.” “What we’re really looking for is a space where all young people have the tools they need to be happy and healthy,” Betori says.While living in Chicago, he attended a public health boot camp. He describes being cloistered in a hotel for a week, studying public health from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day.
Not long after moving here, he joined Healthy Futures of Texas, a nonprofit with offices on the near East Side that had about 13 employees at that time. It now has a staff of 46 after merging with two other nonprofits in August: the Dallas-based North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens and the statewide Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
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