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| Teens, Sex & Truth By:
Barb Steinberg, LMSW
May 16th, 2008
8:00 am - 9:30am
The event will be held at:
The Thompson & Knight Law Firm - 98 San Jacinto Blvd. Suite 1900. Phone: 512-469-6100
Parking Instructions:
The Thompson & Knight parking garage is located on Brazos Street - left of the San Jacinto Bldg. heading south.
Pull ticket at the ticket booth and go to level G3 which has open parking.
Take the elevator to the lobby. Then take a 2nd elevator to the 19th floor.
What is going on with young girls and their sex lives? Are they starting younger? Are they more promiscuous than in the past? Do they have more partners? Are there more teen pregnancies and if so, why?
More importantly, how can we as adults help them to navigate these life changing decisions? How can we guide them to make healthy, positive choices with their bodies?
Come join us as we learn the answers to these questions and leave feeling empowered to inform and protect the girls in our lives.
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Barb Steinberg, a Licensed Master Social Worker, has been a presenter for over 10 years training schools and communities nationally and throughout Texas. Barb provides insightful and interactive workshops and presentations.They are designed to provide a forum to challenge your thinking, learn new tools and have fun in the process. Her workshop focus is educating and promoting the physical and mental health of our youth through workshops attended by young girls and the adults who influence their lives.
Barb's personal experiences with adolescence as well as being a mother herself drive her to focus her energy and skills on the successful development of girls. It is her goal through her workshops to assist girls in realizing their immense talent and value to better equip them for the challenges of womanhood.
To learn more about Barb’s services, please visit her website: www.barbsteinberg.com.
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The State of Sex Education in Texas Public Schools
Wednesday, September 24th 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The event will be held at Chez Zee.
Kathy Miller, President of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) will discuss the state of sex education in Texas public schools. TFN recently compiled information from virtually every school district in Texas (more than 1,000) regarding the curriculum and materials used in sexuality education, the qualifications of the instructors and invited guest speakers, as well as the manner in which school districts decide their policies for sexuality education. She will provide an exclusive look into the instruction methods, curriculum content, and gender stereotypes in many school districts across the state. In addition, she will offer policy recommendations that stem from this ground-breaking research.
Kathy Miller joined the Texas Freedom Network in January 2005. Kathy has also served as Communications Director for the Texas Council on Family Violence and National Domestic Violence Hotline and as public affairs director for Planned Parenthood Federation of Austin. She served as TFN's deputy director from 1996 to 2000.
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Kathy has appeared on Texas and national broadcast media and has testified before the Texas Legislature and Congress. Kathy created and directed a nationally acclaimed public awareness campaign that included television, radio and print advertising and has trained thousands of individuals from Texas and across the nation on media relations, and grassroots organizing.
Kathy is the mother of two daughters, Olivia and Caroline, both attending public school in Austin.
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Superwomen's Daughters:
The Legacy of Perfectionism and Exhaustion in Female Leadership
Tuesday, October 21st 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The event will be held at: George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center.
Award-winning author Courtney E Martin lays the groundwork for
considering what we define as 21st century female leadership
(bringing in examples from the political scene and pop culture).
Using stories and statistics, she makes her case that we need
a new paradigm for young women that doesn't put a precedence
on "effortless perfection"—the goal for thousands of women recently
surveyed by Duke University. Courtney elucidates her paradigm--the
perfect girl, starving daughter--culled from over 100 interviews
with young women across the country, and argues for a new definition
of female success. In this wide-ranging talk, Courtney will
touch on reality television, the mother-daughter relationship,
race, the obesity epidemic, sports, and spirituality. |
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Courtney E. Martin is a writer, teacher,
and speaker, originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado--home
of the Rocky Mountains, Fast Food Nation, and the New Life Church.
Her book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body, was published to critical acclaim in April 2007 and will be released in paperback by Berkeley, Penguin, in September.
She is currently at work on a collaboration with Emmy-winning activist Marvelyn S. Brown, on her memoir called The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive, to be published by Amistad, HarperCollins shortly.
To learn more about Courtney, please visit her website at www.courtneymartin.com |
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