Consultants become Teachers

Greetings from the Beautiful Northwest,

Great and exciting news, Ti-chee has been asked to develop 3 1 hour lessons for a Substance Abuse and Sexually Transmitted Disease for the Lummi Youth Academy.  We are in the process of developing 3 lesson plans to teach 12-19 year olds what Ti-chee knows about these topics.  As this is what we do, we are having no difficulty in coming up with topics of interest and import.  however, a problem we are facing is craming all the vital topics into a 1 hour session.  It is unfortunate that we aren't able to do more than this, but we have to abide by the time parameters established by the Lummi Youth Academy.

We feel this work is of incredible importance as most Tribal K-12 schools are faced with a severe problem of  cultural bias when sexuality is concerned as there exists no human sexuality courses and there for no push for STD prevention.  Although of late the Health Clinics do have testing events at the schools for Chlamydia.  We are pushing for a reform in the way the Education Administration thinks regarding this issue. 

Case in point, as recent as 2 weeks ago it was reported that an 11 year old girl had given birth.  Therefore we say that sexual education in the schools is way past due.  This has to stop!  Our next big push is to help educate these children in the best way possible to stop this incredible ignorance.
WE CARE!!!

Thats all for now,

Ken Lamb | Project Lead