Richard Panzer, Founder of Free Teens USA, Inc., and President of the Center for Educational Media, is a public speaker and developer of family life education programs. He has spoken to health educators, social workers, parents' and community groups all over the U.S., and in Antigua, Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Okinawa, Osaka, and Tokyo.

Founder of the Free Teens HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Pregnancy Prevention program, which exists in twelve languages. This multimedia program is used in 38 states in the U.S.A., Canada, and 70 nations in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. It has been endorsed by the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information as "scientifically accurate, in conformance with public health principles and policies, appropriate for the intended audience." Free Teens was approved for use in the NYC Public Schools in 1994 and is listed in the 1997 Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy Abstinence Education Resource Directory, the August 1997 U.S. Maternal and Child Health Program Interchange "Focus on Abstinence Education," and the National Abstinence Clearinghouse's Directory of Abstinence Resources.

Some of the groups Mr. Panzer has spoken to include: the 1998 and 1999 Oklahoma C.A.L.M. Conference, the 23rd annual New York State Professional Health Educator's Conference, City of New York Dept. of Probation, Urban League of Trenton, NJ; Nassau County, N.Y. Parent Teacher Conference; Bergen County Dept. of Human Services; Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations of Lehigh Valley, PA; School Chemical Health Prevention Association, Union County, NJ; the Office of Surgeon General - Army HIV/AIDS Education/ Prevention Workshop, Atlanta, GA, and the Fifth Biennial AMEDD HIV/AIDS Symposium. During 1995-1999 he completed several speaking tours on AIDS prevention throughout Japan and trained more than 1300 lecturers there. Mr. Panzer has also spoken in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Antigua, West Indies and Australia.

Interviewed on dozens of radio stations nationwide, the Standard News and USA Radio Networks and letters published in the New York Times, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. His activities have been reported on in the Star-Ledger, Herald News, The Record, Miami Herald andother newspapers. Appeared on the nationally syndicated Newstalk Television show on teen pregnancies in early 1996. Conducted his own weekly radio talkshow about Marital Intelligence, called What's Your MQ? in 1997 and TV show of same name in 1998.

Mr. Panzer is also the author of the newly released Free Teens Relationship Training curriculum and two publications: Relationship Intelligence: why your RQ is more important to your success and happiness than your IQ and Preventing Violence: Why Families are Important and What They can Do, released in July 2000 and endorsed by Dr. Wade Horn, President of The National Fatherhood Initiative.

Other publications include: Condom Nation: Blind Faith, Bad Science, endorsed by Boston University President Emeritus John Silber, After the Sexual Revolution: The Role of Marriage in Society and Sex and Love: Teaching our Children in the Age of AIDS multimedia presentations, a children's book called Mommy, Daddy, Where Do Babies Come From? read by Dr. Laura Schlesinger on her national radio program, and the Angels' Bar & Grill audiobook. For a complete publications listing see publications.

He has spoken on several college campuses including Hofstra University, Mount St. Mary's College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Yale University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Maryland, and San Fransisco State University. A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Panzer is married and the father of 4 children.

The Real Deal on Love, Relationships and Marriage, a 28 minute documentary, is a valuable new tool to help educators initiate discussions about healthy relationships, stages of intimacy, and the documented benefits of marriage.

>."Why Can't Men be Monogamous?" ... a list-serve question that generated many interesting responses. See why... >.Not Free Sex We learned that sex makes you feel good, but it can kill you or make you sterile. We hear that to be happy you need to be sexy. Only losers and nerds are missing out on the fun, but then why do so many sexually active girls try to take their own lives?

>.Debunking Myths about Marriage. There is a brand new recipe for a healthy life. The basic ingredients are a low-fat diet, regular exercise - and marriage. >. The Impact of the WTC Attack on Families. Matters pertaining to marriage, family, and religion - the subject matter of the RCF Project - at first seemed far removed from the September 11 disaster at the World Trade Center. There the issues were life versus death, terrorism versus principled dissent, democracy versus tyranny, the separation of religion and state versus theocracy. Bev's Story After doing it, the next day I would ask him- 'are we a couple?' He would always say, 'no.' Then I would ask, 'then why did we do it last night? You said we weren't going to.' Then he would say 'OK, no more.' But then we'd do it in a few weeks. I couldn't resist him, better to have a little than to have nothing. He was on my mind constantly.

>.Contraceptive Effectiveness? Failure rates in preventing pregnancy over 12 months of use as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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