Show #81 Hour 2 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert
Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA | Show
Summary: How do you engage pre-teens and teenagers with real facts about sex?
How about letting them sneak you anonymous questions while you stand before a
classroom wearing a sanitary-napkin corsage? Julie and Rob's wit, frank nature,
and medical backgrounds combine in their groundbreaking program that pushes past
shyness and shame to deliver plain facts about sex and reproduction. Their
classes reach out to kids, parents, and teachers, and are a long way from the
"mental hygiene" film lessons of past generations. Julie Metzger combined her experience as an RN with her passion for working with
adolescents and their families to create her class For Girls Only, now taught
through Seattle Children's Hospital and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. She
was recently profiled in the New York Times, and is based in Washington state.
Her latest book is This is Me: A Journal for Girls. Rob Lehman, MD, trained in pediatrics and adolescent medicine. He's active in
state and national health policy formation, and serves on the Seattle STD/HIV
Prevention Training Center Advisory Board and is a Clinical Associate Professor
of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.
