Contemporary Sexuality - July 2008 - (Page 1)

American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists sexuality The international resource for educators, researchers and therapists contemporary July 2008 Vol. 42, No. 7 In this issue The 2008 AASECT award winners are … roven sexuality education for teenagers and preteens. A trailblazing gay man and AASECT conference organizer. A husbandwife sex therapy team that helped couples in South Carolina and Georgia. The author of a book on why we fight about sexuality education. These are just a few of the winners of the 2008 AASECT Awards, which were presented at the organization’s annual conference in New Orleans. (Members of the AASECT Awards Committee, chaired by Konnie McCaffree, PhD, chose the award winners.) P Member Spotlight . . . . . . . .3 Meet Charley Ferrer from Staten Island, N.Y. Carrera, Dyson, Huggins, Luker, Planned Parenthood, Satterly and the Sughrues Quick Hits: Sex in the News . . . . .7 HPV may cause cancer in men News of Members . . . . . . . .9 Thomas Wood wins Student Poster Award Professional Standard of Excellence In 2009, Michael Carrera will celebrate 50 years in sexuality education. Carrera, 70, began his teaching career at a junior high school in the Bronx, New York. He’s authored several books, including Sex, The Facts, The Acts and Your continued on page 4 Feelings, which has been translated into 17 languages. Today, Carrera, EdD, is best known as the director of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program at the Children’s Aid Society (CAS). It’s a comprehensive program he started in 1970 that extends far beyond comprehensive sexuality education. CAS-Carrera program participants join at age 10 or 11. For the next seven years, they attend after-school classes six days per week, 50 weeks per year, until they graduate from high school. The low-income students, who Carrera views as “at promise,” not “at risk,” receive training in several areas: employment, arts and counseling, and family life/sexuality education. And they also receive free medical and dental care. Michael Carrera. Photo courtesy of Children’s Aid Society In a 2005 interview with Contemporary Sexuality, Carrera explained the program’s philosophy. “When young people feel that good things are possible in their lives, then they reduce risk,” he said. “We do not prevent teen pregnancy, they do.” Several years ago, a three-year random sample evaluation found that the CAS-Carrera model reduced teen pregnancy by 49 percent. That’s one reason Carrera is this year’s recipient for AASECT’s Professional Standard of Excellence Award. In 1984, Carrera received the AASECT Distinguished Service Award. He’s also served as president of the board of directors of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and AASECT. On receiving the Professional Standard of Excellence Award, Carrera says, “This is a singular honor.”

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