SEC MISSION
The Sex Education Collaborative advances and scales sex education for young people across the United States by leveraging members’ collective strengths and expertise to engage and educate youth-serving professionals and other supportive adults.
SEC VISION
The Sex Education Collaborative envisions a world in which all young people’s right to comprehensive, high quality sex education is recognized and fulfilled.
SEC VALUES
- We value young people’s right to receive comprehensive, high quality, school-based sex education and believe that schools and communities have a responsibility to ensure knowledgeable and trained educators and youth-serving professionals deliver this sex education.
- We value comprehensive, high quality sex education that is grounded in equity and social justice and is culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, inclusive, medically accurate, sex positive, and trauma-informed.
- We value meaningful collaboration among members and a joint commitment to contribute to the whole and to each other.
SEC Goals
- Promote and increase sex education that is comprehensive, in alignment with the National Sex Education Standards, and affirms the identities and autonomy of all young people.
- Increase accessibility to high-quality training in alignment with the Professional Learning Standards for Sex Education and the National Teacher Preparation Standards for Sex Education.
- Foster a community that creates, shares, and strategizes on resources, research, and best and emerging practices to develop and utilize member organizations’ expertise and capacity.
- Leverage opportunities to enhance social and racial justice in sex education by promoting implementation of equity and inclusion in the field and within each member organization.
- Sustain the Sex Education Collaborative’s work through equitable financial contributions, dedicated staff time, and centralized coordination.