Abstinence Division
The Abstinence Division uses the
federally-approved, Discovering Dignity:
An Education Training Program for Youth curriculum developed by To Our
Children’s Future With Health, Inc., to provide comprehensive
multi-intervention strategies to educate preteens/teens and their families
about the social, psychological and health gains to be realized from abstaining
from sexual activity, violence, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, and to
increase participants’ practice of healthy behaviors.
- Comprehensive Abstinence Program– TOCFWH
trains adults from
Community-Based Organizations (CBO) and Faith-Based Organizations (FBO) as
Certified Abstinence Education Facilitators who provide on-going abstinence education
instruction to youth in grades 5th-12th in schools, after school programs and
community and faith-based settings. Youth
who have received the 52-hour Discovering Dignity curriculum in
its entirety and demonstrate leadership potential are offered the
opportunity to become Abstinence Peer Educators who teach the curriculum
to other youth, alongside trained adult instructors.
