About Us

Richard A. Panzer, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of Free Teens USA, Inc., and president of the Center for Educational Media. A public speaker and developer of family life educational programs, he has spoken to health educators, social workers, parents' and community groups all over the U.S., and in Beijing, Antigua, Trinidad, Montreal, Toronto, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Seoul, Sydney, Okinawa, Osaka, and Tokyo.

Mr. Panzer is the author of the Free Teens HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Pregnancy Prevention program, founded in 1989 and which exists in ten languages. This multimedia program has been 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." In 2004, he cofounded CultureMachine.com, a website that highlights youth-created music and art with positive messages.

Mr. Panzer is also the author of the Relationship Intelligence curriculum and Relationship Intelligence: why your RQ is more important to your success and happiness than your IQ. In an evaluation by the Institute for American Values, the RI curriculum was selected as one of the top three marriage curricula in the country, stating: "Relationship Intelligence provides a clear marriage vision, portraying marriage as the key to personal growth in love, intimacy, and sexual satisfaction." Another publication, Preventing Violence: why families are important, what they can do, was released in 2000. The Preventing Violence powerpoint presentation was produced in 2002. 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 Schlessinger on her national radio program, the Angels' Bar & Grill audiobook. Jenny's Choice roleplaying CD-ROM was released in 2004, the Real Deal on Love, Relationships, and Marriage documentary video/DVD in 2005, the Lovesmart DVD in 2007 and the CultureMachine iMagazine CD-ROM in 2008.

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 1995-2002 he completed several speaking tours on AIDS prevention throughout Japan and trained more than 1500 lecturers there. Mr. Panzer has also spoken in Turkey, Antigua and Trinidad in the West Indies, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Australia, & in 2004 in China, the Czech Republic and Zambia.

Interviewed on dozens of radio stations nationwide, the Standard News and USA Radio Network, the nationally syndicated Newstalk Television show on teen pregnancies and letters published in the New York Times, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. Free Teens activities have been reported on in Newsweek magazine, the Star-Ledger, Herald News, The Record, Miami Herald and other newspapers.

He has spoken on several college campuses including UC Berkeley, Mercy College, 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 Francisco State University. A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Panzer is married and the father of 4 children. His doctorate is in the field of Educational Communication and Technology from New York University.

Richard A. Panzer, Ph.D., Founder/Director
Free Teens USA/Center for Educational Media
P.O. Box 97, Westwood, NJ 07675
(201) 358-1504, 358-9013 fax, CenEdMedia@aol.com
www.freeteensusa.org, www.FreeTeensYouth.com, www.CultureMachine.com
 
 
 
 
 
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