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How We Became Worldwide

In the 1960s Dr. Klaus worked in hospitals in Pakistan and Bangladesh for several years as a director of gynecology and obstetric services. There, she met many teenagers and women in distress. Later on, back in the USA, she encountered many teenagers who were pregnant. From the experience she gained, she and her team developed a course enabling teenagers to answer the questions they had about relationships, love and sexuality.

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Teen STAR was born in 1980 as Dr Klaus (MC, FACOG) and her team in the USA, which included Sr. Ursula, Mary Lou Bryant-Reid, worked on the curriculum for young girls and later added the help of Fr. Heet, who helped with the curriculum for boys.

Teen STAR began to grow and more and more young people became a part of it while adults became involved dedicating themselves to help young people as Instructors.  
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As the program expanded to the UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Chile and  Croatia inculturation required many modifications without losing the essentials of experiential learning, self  discovery, parental involvement and monitoring of behavioral outcomes. There are too many people to name. Suffice it to say that the longest standing program in  the US continues to be directed by Liz Heyne, P.A.,Psy.D., who has conducted classes in middle school, university  and in crisis pregnancy centers for over 30 years. Mary Lou Bryant-Reid has continued to host programs for middle school students in Louisville, Kentucky, and until her recent retirement, Dorothy Dugandzic also had continued to teach Teen STAR to middle school students in New York. In Chile Dr. Pilar Vigil, M.D., Ph.D. has expanded the program not only in Chile but in  several neighboring countries, and Spain.  Helga Sebernik and Elisabeth Pesahl have added a “kids program for younger children used in Austria,  Germany and Switzerland, France has  hosted several francophone programs in Africa. Most programs are purely volunteer, but  Ethiopia and Uganda initial expansions were supported by USAID.  Programs in Korea, Macao and other sites.

​In the 1990s, Dr. Pilar Vigil entered the scene. She too is a very important person for Teen STAR™. 
​Born in Santiago, Chile, Dr. Vigil is a wife and mother of four children, a licensed Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is also involved in many scientific research projects within the field of fertility. 
​Dr. Vigil has worked with Teen STAR™ since 1993 and is currently the International Director of the Teen STAR™ Program.​
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Phone: 850.296.7124

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