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Teachers and counselors can play a crucial role in advocating for their students. Every day, you see the challenges they face and the support they need to be healthy and successful.

Texas has new Health Education curriculum standards which will provide students with important information on topics like healthy relationships, contraception, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, abuse prevention, online safety, and more. We need your support to make sure that high-quality, age-appropriate, medically accurate health education is implemented in every school district throughout the state. Working together, we can support Texas students for a lifetime of health.

Who we are
The Texas is Ready Coalition is a grant-funded collaborative made up of regional and statewide teen pregnancy prevention organizations. We help school districts to implement evidence-based sex education, which research shows can support adolescent health and safety.

All trainings are free. Continuing education credits are provided, including CPE, SW and LPC.

May 26, 12 PM - 1 PM: Teaching Sex Education with Fidelity. Texas Is Ready experts will share best practices for teaching sex ed to ensure that lessons are efficacious and taught in a safe learning environment.

May 31, 12 PM - 1 PM: Community Advocacy for Sex Education. Texas Is Ready experts will guide Texas parents, students, teachers, and community members on how to support health education in schools.

Register at www.texasisready.org/trainings

For questions, email J.R. Chester at [email protected].

Parent Opt-in Requirements for Sex Education & Abuse Prevention  Parent opt-in forms are already being distributed to students in some Texas school districts. Texas Is Ready is helping to ensure parents/caregivers are aware that the forms have been distributed and that there is a due date for them to be returned to the schools. Additionally, we want parents/caregivers to have all of the information they need, so in the Texas Is Ready blog post we are answering questions such as, "What is the parent opt-in form?" and "What are my rights?"

Read the blog here.

How did the Legislative Session impact sex education?                      If you want to learn more about how laws about sex education changed in the last legislative session, read our blog here.