About FutureNet

The Iowa Network for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Parenting, and Sexual Health.

For over a decade, FutureNet's statewide leadership network of individuals and organizations has been working to educate, organize, and influence. FutureNet leads the effort in Iowa to ensure that service providers across the state use science-based practices in all teen pregnancy, parenting, and sexual health education programs.

The mission of FutureNet is to support within Iowa a leadership network concerned with issues of adolescent pregnancy prevention, parenting, and sexual health.

FutureNet invites all providers of sexual health education in Iowa to voluntarily commit to the following:

• Accuracy – Sexual health education will be factual, medically accurate, and informed by the weight of available peer-reviewed research.
• Accountability – Providers will voluntarily adhere to a basic set of science-based standards and be willing to accept a periodic peer review of practices and program content.
• Affirmation – Sexual health education will affirm sexuality as a natural lifelong quality of being human which can be expressed in healthy, responsible ways.
• Advocacy – Providers will actively advocate for:
  • Abstinence first from any form of risky sexual activity
  • Age-appropriate, medically accurate sexuality education for all
  • Access and referral to reproductive healthcare and services for sexually active youth
  • The efficacy of contraception and condoms in reducing the risk of pregnancy and STI/HIV infection.

To learn more about FutureNet, please visit www.IowaFutureNet.org