Sexuality Education
Haffner has been a sexuality educator since the mid 1970’s when as a student at Wesleyan she was trained by the Boston Women’s Health Collective to teach gynecological self help exams. Haffner is an AASECT certified sexuality educator.
Her contributions to the field of sexuality education include creating the first educators handbook for Planned Parenthood in 1981, directing the nation’s first conference on AIDS and Adolescents in 1986 for the Center for Population Options (now Advocates for Youth, and co-authoring the first national study on the costs of teenage childbearing with Martha Burt from the Urban Institute.
While at SIECUS, she created the National Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, which she co-authored with Dr. William Yarber of Indiana University, the National Commission on Adolescent Sexual Health, and the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education which now has more than 140 national organization members.
In addition, Haffner has written two award-winning books for parents: From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children and Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens. From Diapers to Dating is in its third edition and has been translated into 11 languages, including Russian, Czech, and Hebrew.
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