Sex Ed for Our Youth and Institutional Reform - A Sex Educator's Journey

Vanessa Osage is on a mission to leave this world better than she found it. Her mission is to Positively Transform Love, Sexuality & Human Connections. In 2017, she won the "Kickass Single Mom" Award for her work in sexuality education and youth rites of passage. A two-time nonprofit founder, Vanessa Osage is a Certified Sexuality Educator, Consultant & Professional Coach at Love & Truth Rising.   https://loveandtruthrising.org Her first book, Can’t stop the Sunrise, is available now. https://amzn.to/3xNtmpJ Tell us the story about how you got started in sex ed. You Are a certified sex educator – how did your journey get to educating teenagers and parents to help young people? What does the data say on teaching kids accurate sex ed? How early should we start? How can we empower teenage females and males to advocate for themselves and their partners? Tell us about “puberty rights of passage” Intimacy is created in the vulnerability of our conversations with our intimate partner. Your recent interest has led you to writing a book and becoming passionate about institutional reform through The Justice CORPS Initiative. And you call this “Defending sexual health on an institutional level" Vanessa is truly an amazing human being! I hope you enjoyed her and our talk as much as I did. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/06/private-schools-painful-secrets/OaRI9PFpRnCTJxCzko5hkN/story.html https://www.instagram.com/vanessaosage --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message

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