Network for Family Life Education, Susan N. Wilson papers

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Series Descriptions

Series I:

This series contains articles, correspondences with Planned Parenthood, press clippings including reports from Time Magazine and the New York Time Magazine, reports and surveys related to abortion.

Series II:

This series contains documents on the formation and history of the Network for Family Life Education, as well as, reports on family life education, correspondences, meeting minutes, merger discussions, legislative bills, mission statements, annual summaries, proposals, list of members, goals, objectives, photographs of the staff, and other files that document the inner working of the Network.

Series III:

This series pertains to the various coalitions that the Network is a part of in their support of comprehensive family life education.

Series IV:

This series contains agendas, itineraries, registration forms, biography of speakers, promotional materials, and other forms relating to the Network’s conferences.

Series V:

This series contains legal briefs, motions, decisions, and syllabi.

Series VI:

This series consists of Susan Wilson’s papers from the Family Life Education Summer Institute where she taught classes during the summer including; Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality, Human Sexuality, Development and Implementation of Family Life Education, and Family Life Education Early Years. In 1995 and 1996, Wilson co-taught classes with Eva Goldfarb Ph.D., a teacher at the Newark Academy and sexuality educator and K-3 trainer for the Network. This series contains: class listings, course outlines, correspondences with Marjorie W. Kelly, Institute Coordinator and Catherine M. McFarland Executive officer and secretary of the Victoria Foundation, Inc., receipts, faculty assignments, lesson plans, handouts, course announcements, and evaluations.

Series VII:

This series contains reports and press clippings concerned with organizations that oppose the Network’s goals.

Series VIII:

This series contains reports, press clippings, correspondences, testimonies, and voting records. This includes information on ACR-2 and SCR-86 (New Jersey constitutional amendments), as well as correspondences with Sen. Shirley Turner, Sen. Donald DiFrancesco, Sen. Gerald Cardinale, the ACLU, National Organization for Women, and Planned Parenthood.

Series IX:

This series contains handwritten notes, index cards, overheads, and printouts of computer slides. It also contains the notes, slides, and layouts for presentations given.

Series X:

This series contains articles and newspapers clippings and anything other relevant piece that was published.

Series XI:

This series contains articles, newsletters, correspondences, grant results and anything that has to do with Sex Education.

Series XII:

Sex, Etc. is the Network’s program that is produced by teens for teens. The series covers areas like Sex, Etc., a proposed book, and their teenage health survey. It also includes articles written by the Sex, Etc. Editorial Board.

Series XIII:

This series is concerned with the various legislative attempts to pass “stress-abstinence” bills through the New Jersey Senate and Assembly. Included are assembly bills: A-316, A-1985, A-248, A-792, A-515, A-316 and senate bills: S-868, S-732, S-113, and S-1293. There are also correspondences with Senators Vitale, Shirley Turner, Byron Baer, Joseph Palaia, William Gormley, John Bennett, Richard Codey, Robert Martin.

Series XIV:

This series is a collection of handouts obtained from various trainings and workshops. The handouts deal generally with teaching sex education.

Series XV:

This series contains documents regarding the Network’s formation, search for funding, early activities, as well as materials from conferences attended, correspondence and minutes, newsletters, annual reports and other accounts of general activities within the Network.

Series XVI:

This series includes papers related to the history of family life education in general and in New Jersey in particular. Among other items, Curriculum guidelines, statements of opponents and supporters of family life education, and community family life education program descriptions with commentary and evaluation provide an overview of and context for family life education controversies.

Series XVII:

The series includes the bills related to family life education that came before the New Jersey state legislature after the institution of the family life mandate in 1980, and the documents created in the process of Network advocacy against these acts. Also included are documents regarding the establishment and contents of the mandate itself, among them documentation regarding Supreme Court Case Smith V. Ricci which upheld the mandate. Legislative documentation also includes copies of the New Jersey Administrative Code and the National Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996-97. Testimony regarding family life education given at hearings covers both the mandate wars and the stress abstinence wars.

Series XVIII:

This series is composed of press releases, op-eds and articles, reports, media outreach and press clippings related to family life education. The appearance of Executive Coordinator Susan Wilson on the Phil Donahue show, while not a large folder, includes resultant fan mail showing the impact of this particular placement. Other outreach activity occurs primarily in print form. Some of the press clippings feature the Network and/or Susan Wilson in a positive light, others provide context regarding family life issues, and some are intrinsically oppositional to family life education, showing what the network was working to combat.

Series XIX:

This series is composed of articles about the Network for Family life Education, most of them written or co-authored by Wilson. Some of them are about Wilson and her work at the NFLE. The records also include other materials related to the articles, such as rough drafts, completed publications, and correspondence, written by or addressed to Susan Wilson.

Series XX:

This series contains six nominations for awards written by Susan N. Wilson.

Series XXI:

The series includes agendas, programs, notes, testimonies, typescripts, and correspondence.

Series XXII:

The series includes agendas, programs, notes, testimonies, typescripts, and correspondence.