My Future- My Choice
My Future-My Choice is a comprehensive, medically accurate, inclusive and trauma informed sexuality education curriculum. It meets the 6th grade requirements of Oregon’s Health Education Standards, including Erin's Law and House Bill 2509 to provide age-appropriate sexuality education as an integral part of the health education curriculum.
Purpose
This ten-part education series aims to provide middle school students with tools to have healthy relationships that includes setting and respecting personal boundaries and treating each other with respect and dignity. My Future-My Choice offers skills to resist peer and social pressure including messages from the media and teaches students how to prevent sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy.
Program Background
The My Future - My Choice Program is an educational program offered by Deschutes County Health Services. It is part of a multi-faceted effort to meet the Deschutes County Benchmark initiative of reducing teen pregnancy. The My Future-My Choice program is based on the Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI) curriculum developed in 1983 by Dr. Marion Howard of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The program is designed to be a 6th grade component of comprehensive human sexuality / reproductive health curricula for students in Deschutes County. My Future-My Choice meets the requirements for House Bill 2509 and OAR 581-022-1440 to be age-appropriate, comprehensive, medically accurate, promoting abstinence but not to the exclusion of other material, consequences of sexual health behaviors with regard to risk of pregnancy and STIs, emotional and physical consequences of early sexual involvement, and encouraging family communication and involvement. Parents and guardians always have the right to opt their children out of one or all of the lessons of My Future-My Choice at any time in every public middle school in Deschutes County.
To view the full curriculum and list of materials for My Future - My Choice, please follow this link to the state website: https://www.oregon.gov/DHS/CHILDREN/MFMC/Pages/index.aspx
If you have any questions about this program, please contact McKaelie Wolfe, My Future - My Choice Coordinator for Deschutes County, at 541-213-1325, or mckaelie.wolfe@deschutes.org.
