Anthony Betori

Anthony Betori is a Program Director at Healthy Futures of Texas. In this role, Anthony’s work specializes in involving young people in advocacy and sex education curriculum development. He directs the Youth Advocacy Council, which advocates for sex education, and the San Antonio and Rio Grande Valley regions of Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative, an inter-agency, state-wide partnership.  Anthony also directs the Big Decisions sex education curriculum, which is approved for use in more than 40 Texas school districts, along with several curriculum development pilots. Anthony was awarded the 2020 Rising Star award by the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.  He studied English at Loyola University Chicago and founded the Community Health Apprenticeship Program at Chicago House and Social Service Agency.

Since 2006, Healthy Futures of Texas has worked to reduce teen and unplanned pregnancy in San Antonio and Texas in order to support the development of strong families and positively impact the future of Texas communities. It has four major departments: Health Education, which develops and disseminates curriculum and trainings, the Youth Advocacy Council, which amplifies youth voice on issues related to sex ed, the Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition, where Healthy Futures collaborates with statewide partners to promote and preserve access to and quality of funding related to women’s healthcare, and BAE-B-SAFE, a groundbreaking educational and clinical referral program for community colleges. Emphasizing deep collaboration with partners around Texas, their programs represent an ambitious, comprehensive strategy to make Texas a leader in public health outcomes for youth, women, and families.