Carole Adlard began Healthy Visions as a counseling program for pregnant teens but quickly realized students needed more.<\/p>\n
CAROLE ADLARD (Founder, Healthy Visions): One of the facts that broke my heart was seeing so many students who felt hopeless. They were in bad home situations, they were being bullied in schools, they had been sexually abused. You could see the lack of light in their eyes, and we wanted to offer them hope.<\/p>\n
RUSSELL PROCTOR: Day 1 I talk about healthy self-image. With girls it\u2019s much more about body image: Hey, listen, you don\u2019t have to be a size 2. You\u2019re a beautiful girl no matter what size you are, no matter how much make-up you wear. And then I try to teach the guys what it means to be a man, because our society kind of teaches, okay, men need to hook up with girls, men need to drink. Day 2 we talk about Facebook, technology, cell phones, how to be smart with that stuff. Day 3 we talk about sex, the physical side, how people are connected, how STDs spread, kind of the nuts and bolts of sex….<\/p>\n