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 Healthy
Relationship Resources for Teens, Singles, and Parents of Teens
May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention month under development.
Resources & Links for teens, singles, parents, educators and
congregations below.
Links
for Educators & Congregations:
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www.Dibblefund.org
"Love U 2" and "Connections" curriculums for
teen healthy relationships. These are some of the best materials
aimed at high schools we have reviewed and look at helping teens
with relationships in a realistic, informed
way. Visit our FTF Richmond office to review a
sample. "Love
is in the Air" article on paying attention to
romantic lives of teens (Link Here)
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A & M Partnership (Abstinence
and Marriage): Restoring the Dream for America's youth.
Curriculum, teacher training and resources for teachers (Aspire)
and congregations (Excel) for promoting abstinence and delaying
sexual activity. http://www.ampartnership.org/
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www.4parents.gov
gives parents the support and information they need to help
their children make the healthiest choices.
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July 22-25, 2008 Abstinence
Clearinghouse Conference at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort
in Orlando, FL www.abstinenceconference.com.
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www.ForYouIWill.com
We partner with "For You I Will" a local outreach to
assist youth & young adults understand the purpose of
forming healthy relationships, marriage and family and to have a
hope for the future. This is an intense 8 week training program
followed by a "mock wedding"
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http://www.waittraining.com
WAIT (why am I tempted) Training
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http://www.waittraining.com/links.asp
other links
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http://www.abstinencepartners.net/
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Abstinence Clearinghouse Conference,
visit www.abstinenceconference.com.
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www.medinstitute.org/products
Medical Institute Products
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By
The Numbers... costs of teen pregnancies. http://www.teenpregnancy.org/costs/
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**NEW****
Brookings
Institution reports that increasing marriage rates and reducing
divorce is the second most influential factor to reduce poverty
second only to "Full Time Work" and in front of
increasing education! Testimony of Senior Fellow:
Isabel Sawhill to Ways & Means Committee April 26, 2007.
Suggests funding of programs for Pre-Marital Skills Education
and healthy Relationship Skills for Teens like the Relationship
Smarts program part of Love U-2 Curriculum which we use at FTF
for teens. Culture Counts: "Thus,
any strategy to reduce the number of single parent families
should include a component aimed at changing broad cultural
attitudes. Many younger people, teens especially, have not
fully absorbed the message about normative ordering of events
that is critical to achieving life's goals: finish high school,
or better still, get a college degree, wait until your twenties
to marry, and do not have children until after you marry and at
least one parent is stably employed".
Download pdf report from Brookings: http://www3.brookings.edu/views/testimony/sawhill/20070426.pdf
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ESSENTIAL
DISCIPLINES™ FOR TEENS, a unique
new curriculum by Stephen Judah, Ph.D. that
equips young people with the practical relationship skills they
need for success in private life AND the
workplace. avaailable from Dibble Fund
These programs/information have
received support from the Dominion foundation, Parker
Foundation, Equity Concepts, Ukrop's Supermarkets, First Market
Bank, SunTrust, Trinity United Methodist Church, Third and St
Giles Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Endowement, Episcopal
Diocese of Va, Catholic Diocese of Richmond Respect Life, First
Shiloh Baptist Church, and other businesses, congregations, and
individuals.
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