RISE: Healthy for Life

Vision: RISE provides and promotes responsible, inclusive sexuality education that empowers all people to be healthy for life in a culture of consent, inclusion, and compassion. Mission: RISE ethically and sustainably builds: --A positive, evidence-based, holistic approach to sexuality education. --Cultural competency. --Relationships with community partners and stakeholders. This work is driven by people with diverse skills, experiences, and identities based on research and identified needs.

RISE offers responsible, inclusive sexuality education in Northeast Tennessee. We work to change culture by educating and empowering youth as young as kindergarten through older adults. Truly comprehensive sex ed (CSE) leads to healthier, more respectful relationships, self-confidence, and more responsible decision-making. We emphasize that: --Sexuality is a normal part of human life and loving. --Our bodies are good and beautiful, private and our own. --Normal changes happen as we grow, develop, mature, and age.