Vivian Peters
Author | Cooperstown, N.Y. USA |
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Vivian Peters worked for fifteen years as an Outreach Educator for her local Planned Parenthood in a remote, rural area of New York State. Poverty was prevalent in the area, and teen parenting and large families were the norm.
Two unique programs enabled her to build ongoing relationships with people in their homes an.... more
Vivian Peters worked for fifteen years as an Outreach Educator for her local Planned Parenthood in a remote, rural area of New York State. Poverty was prevalent in the area, and teen parenting and large families were the norm.
Two unique programs enabled her to build ongoing relationships with people in their homes and schools, providing sexual health education—and so much more—to individual teens and adults in rural poverty. Those experiences underscored what she had suspected before she started: that many pregnancies are unintended, that those pregnancies can totally throw people’s lives off track, that the girls and women who experience them would be open to a caring, helping hand at avoiding them, and that preventing those pregnancies would be a win-win situation for our entire society. Yet those same experiences also underscored that our society is routinely, systematically missing opportunities to effectively reach people. Her book OOPS! Tales From A Sexpert is based on those experiences.
Prior to becoming a sexual health educator, Vivian Peters was a designer/craftsperson working with clay. She and her husband established their own studio in a beautiful, remote area of New York State. They worked as partners, and for twenty years they sold their work to hundreds of galleries and stores in almost every state in the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii, and in the Virgin Islands and Japan.