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By: Maryjo M. Oster Last weekend, I was sharing the latest in federal sex education funding news with my husband as we were driving about town. I informed him that while President Obama’s proposed budget eliminated funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and redirected those monies toward evidence-based prevention programs, the Senate Finance Committee recently voted to reinstate $50

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By: Maryjo M. Oster Holy Prophylaxis, Batman! Last winter, my colleague and I facilitated a training on the Making Proud Choices! curriculum with one of our school district partners. Making Proud Choices! is a science-based safer sex focused teen pregnancy, HIV, and STI prevention program. The program heavily emphasizes condom use to reduce one’s risk of unintended pregnancy or HIV and STI

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By: Maryjo M. Oster In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or more, I have some bad news for you: the economy’s not doing so well at the moment. One of our new president’s major campaign promises was to go through the budget “line by line” and spend money more efficiently and cut spending for programs that do not work. The first time I heard then Senator Barack Obama

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By: Maryjo M. Oster When we at PCPTP talk to educators about the need for longer term, comprehensive, medically accurate, and evidence based sex education programming in our schools, overwhelmingly teachers, administrators, nurses, and a variety of other school personnel echo our sentiments and are in complete agreement with us on this fact. However, what we hear in response as the biggest

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