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Substance Abuse and Premature Sex Prevention Update

By Stacey UrbanA surgeon General’s report “Facing Addiction in America” finds that abuse of substances such as alcohol and drugs is a growing problem in the United States. The adolescent years are critical at-risk periods. Research show that many adults with substance abuse problems started drinking or taking drugs in their teen years. Teen-age substance abuse is linked to sexual risk behaviors that lead young people to contract sexually transmitted diseases and become pregnant. More needs to be done to lessen such consequences.  The report concludes that prevention programs for this risky...

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Right Choices Youth Prevention Corps for West Virginia

Seventy eight percent of West Virginia ninth grade students are abstaining from sex.  Yet, this percentage drops to 32% for twelfth grade students.  We are missing a great opportunity. Youth who are abstaining from sex can serve as a great resource who can encourage their peers to make right choices.  Youth who are not sexually active enjoy helping their peers as a peer counselor.  They also gain speaking skills and a mutual support group.  There are many benefits for youth who decide to wait to have sex.  Here are a few: Young adults who graduate from high school, get a full time job...

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Abstinence Programs in Kenya

If you like to know about Abstinence Programs in Kenya you will love this article: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000228716/our-youth-need-lessons-on-abstinence   Katherine Wambui known as Katie Vobic is a broadcaster of Hero Radio in Nakuru, Kenya.  Nakuru is the fourth largest city in Kenya and is 86 miles from Nairobi the capitol city of Kenya. Wambui visits schools across the city of Nakuru, teaching the values of abstinence to teenagers.  She teaches the dangers of being sexually active, drugs and alcohol. She started the abstinence program in Nakuru three years...

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Valentine's Day Posters

College Students, Parents, if you want to know what Abstinence groups advocated for this past Valentine’s Day, you will only love this article but also the posters. http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f4995065ee6f344de3ba3f11d&id=5330a25b74&e=01224a9868 https://secure.loveandfidelity.org/np/clients/loveandfidelity/news.jsp?news=203&   Valentine’s Day is usually viewed around the college campuses as one thing, sex.  But this year and over the past decade Love & Fidelity Network (LFN) sponsored college groups around campuses nationwide to Be Unexpected. The posters...

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Aim for Success Young People

Parents, Young Adults and Teachers you will love this article. http://www.caller.com/story/news/education/2016/12/13/ccisd-introduce-visuals-sex-education/95361316/ Aim for Success Inc. a is Dallas, TX based non-profit  and it has received the funding back for their Xtreme Abstinence Program in Corpus Christi, TX for this school year September 2016-June 2017 and beyond.  Corpus Christi is a coastal city located in Southeast, TX. Xtreme Abstinence Program presents an hour long presentation of facts about STDs, condoms why you should be abstinent and shows graphic images of Human Papilloma...

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