At WAIT Training our abstinence education program is about more than just teaching teens to abstain from sex. Our curriculum covers a vast array of topics such as:
Love Education
- That sex is wonderful and awesome
- Every human (regardless of sexual orientation) desires to be loved well and bene fits from abstinence education
- Love lessons "How do I know I am in love?"
- Steps of intimacy
Healthy Relationships
- What makes relationships work and what makes them fail
- Relationship, communication, conflict resolution and marriage preparation skills
- The many freedoms of waiting when one says "No" to sex, but "Yes" to relationships
- Delay in the initiation of sexual activity is critically important to human well-being
- Tolerance and the value of every human being
- Behavioral restraint and fidelity increases human well-being and casual sex with multiple partners decreases well-being
Character Formation
- Character education
- Personal growth and effectiveness
- Life skills that would enable teens to avoid sexual activity, drug and alcohol use and any behavior that would diminish their well-being
- Media literacy and critical thinking skills
- Risk avoidance (not risk reduction) strategies
- Why marriage is important
Positive Youth Development
- Premarital sexual activity can have harmful consequences especially for a teen
- The power of peer pressure
- The power of being intentional
- Focuses on future orientation and long term goal setting
- Imparts new research about teen brain development
- Positive youth development strategies
- The importance of assets and resiliency
- Builds assets in youth
Life Skills
- How to start over
- Healthy people need and desire support and acceptance from others
- Behavioral restraint around drug and alcohol use
- Provides mentoring and accountability
- Successful life strategies
- The power of personal responsibility
- Identification of community support
- Boundary setting
Marriage Preparation
- Dating strategies
- The skills to choose a lifelong partner
- Human sexuality consists of intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, as well as physical dimensions
- Parent-child relationship building skills
- Assertiveness training
- The power of a pledge and accountability
Finally, these programs not only are culturally competent, celebrating and honoring cultural traditions, they acknowledge and honor the needs and desires of the human heart to be loved well and to be cherished.
So, while many sex education programs teach the wonders of condoms and contraceptives, we teach the wonders of love education , healthy relationships, character formation, positive youth development, life skills and marriage preparation.
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