evening my name is jan in a i'm a parent of a 12-year-old in hoefrl middle school and also a health keert for 20 years i want to speak as a parent of a 12-year-old it's a crucial time she's not getting formal health education in the middle school roadway so i want to encourage and support not just improving but increasing the amount of a health education in our elementary school and middle school girls are getting their periods in eight grade many don't have adults to talk about what this they need a trained educators who are comfortable i started i my health indication contrary as an hiv educator in the late 80s and early 90s we'll

keert for 20 years i want to speak as a parent of a 12-year-old it's a crucial time she's not getting formal health education in the middle school roadway so i want to encourage and support not just improving but increasing the amount of a health education in our elementary school and middle school girls are getting their periods in eight grade many don't have adults to talk about what this they need a trained educators who are comfortable i started i my health indication contrary as an hiv educator in the late 80s and early 90s we'll show people how to put a condom on its very uncomfortable talking to my own daughter so with all the experience i have i'm talking about those 20 years of talking about sex and sexuality i can't imagine the parents not having the knowing this is an equality and access issue i also want to state that this generation of youth is the first generation expected do live shorter lives than their parents so living the shorter lives than their parents due to confront diseases with are preventable and we have a role to make that statistic change. >> thank you some