Advancing Sexual Health Education Through Youth Engagement seeks to improve the sexual and mental health of New Mexico adolescents by improving school-based sexual health education. The aims of the project are: 1) improve knowledge, skills, comfort, and confidence of school staff to teach sexual health education in high school; 2) build a supportive community of practice for school staff responsible for teaching sexual health education, and 3) center youth voices to make sexual health education relevant to their lived experience.
Elizabeth Dickson, PhD, RN (Click here for Bio)
Investigador Principal
Professor Assistente, Faculdade de Saúde da População
Universidade do Novo México, Faculdade de Saúde Populacional
David Lardier Jr., PhD, LPCC (Click here for Bio)
Co-Principle Investigator
Professor Assistente de Pesquisa
The University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Department of Community Behavioral Health
Cassandra Acosta, BS
Assistente de Pesquisa
Cassandra Acosta serves as a research assistant for the ASHE project. She is a second-year graduate student at the University of New Mexico College of Population Health. She is studying to receive a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Community Health.
Vanessa Garcia, MPA
Coordenador do Programa
Centro de Pesquisa Participativa
Faculdade de Saúde da População
Heather Slayton Summers, NBCT
Senior Program Manager for STEM Education
Project ECHO Education Team
Heather works in partnership with NMPED and districts throughout New Mexico. She is president elect for New Mexico Science Teachers Association and serves on the Math and Science Advisory Council, the New Mexico Partnership for Math and Science Education board, the New Mexico National Board Certified Teacher Network, and the Building Science Leadership Network. She has extensive NGSS pedagogy and implementation knowledge from through teaching and facilitating professional learning opportunities in PreK-12 STEM education.
DeAndre Curtis
Program Planning Manager
Projeto Eco
Kelsey Munger
Especialista em Operações
Projeto ECHO para a Educação
Elizabeth Weyer-Hudson, MNM
Gerente de Programas de Treinamento Externos
Paternidade planejada das Montanhas Rochosas
In this role, Elizabeth leads a team of educators in developing, coordinating, and facilitating training opportunities for youth-serving adults across the country. She has trained educators, health care providers, and other youth-serving adults in both rural and metropolitan areas throughout her time with RSEI. Elizabeth earned her Bachelor's in Political Science and Spanish at the University of Kansas as well as her Master's Degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University in Denver. When she isn't working, you can find Elizabeth spending time with her family, including her daughter, partner, and two dogs.
Liza Bley
Gerente de Programa de Educação
Paternidade planejada das Montanhas Rochosas
Liza começou a trabalhar para a Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains em 2013, depois de publicar Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: uma história em quadrinhos sobre saúde sexual com a coeditora Siaya Miller. Na Planned Parenthood, ela ensina educação sexual em Albuquerque, Novo México. Fora de sua carreira profissional, Liza trabalha ao lado da fundadora, Marya Errin Jones, para produzir o ABQ Zine Fest. Ela se dedica a apoiar os jovens à medida que melhoram a saúde de suas comunidades por meio da educação, do ativismo e das artes.
