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STARS teachers attend recognition
event at Governor's Mansion
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Schoolhouse students Erin Sutton and Amanda Miller attended a
STARS volunteer recognition function at the Governor's Mansion on Friday, April
27th. The girls are both involved as student teachers in the STARS (Student's
Today Aren't Ready for Sex) program. Sharon Kitzhaber held the event to reward
students from all over the state of Oregon for their efforts to help reduce teen
pregnancy.
Sharon Kitzhaber is Founder and Board Member of
the STARS Foundation. The Foundation was established in 1995 to promote the
STARS program in Oregon. The program’s mission is to help reduce teenage
pregnancies by postponing teenage sexual involvement.
STARS receives wide public, private and school
support. It is an abstinence-based teen pregnancy prevention program that uses a
tested and proven curriculum developed at the Grady Memorial Hospital in
Atlanta, Georgia. Older teens deliver the skill-based curriculum to their sixth
and seventh grade peers. STARS reached over 30,000 young Oregonians in the
1999-2000 school year.
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