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Abstinence Education Websites

www.worththewait.org
The mission of Scott & White Worth the Wait is to educate adolescents and adults on the consequences of teen activity including the medical, social, economic, and legal impacts.

www.Missthemess.com
This website provides abstinence 'til marriage (ATM) programs in Ohio including reaching 55 schools in Columbus, OH and Franklin County. ATM materials and resources encourage healthy decision making about avoiding risky behaviors such as alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, and sexual activity for young people.

www.ibreakdown.com
BreakDown is a team of young people who bring a powerful and dynamic message to their peers. This fast paced, high energy performance is designed specifically for the MTV generation. BreakDown's explosive and inspirational message was created to breakdown the lies that our sexually saturated culture has been sending our youth for years!

www.choosingthebest.org
Choosing the Best provides four age-appropriate abstinence curricula that are known for being easy to use, dynamic, and engaging. They’re also proven tools in transforming attitudes and behavior of teens about premarital sex. Video vignettes, real life case studies, role plays, interactive exercises and small-group discussions create a directed learning environment that encourages "self-discovery".

www.waittraining.com
Wait (Why Am I Tempted?) Training is a positive, fun, interactive curriculum for character and development, abstinence and marriage preparation.

www.Peerchaos.org
Peer CHAOS is a peer education program and community service opportunity for teenagers who are committed to avoiding high-risk behaviors and encouraging their peers.  Their members lead healthy lifestyles by avoiding high-risk behaviors and encourage their peers to do the same. Peer CHAOS performs a variety of skits that entertain and encourage teens to also make healthy choices.

www.Awaitandfind.org
The mission of AWAIT & FIND is to increase the number of teens learning lifetime healthy decision-making and relationship skills and avoiding harmful consequences of unhealthy behaviors.

www.FreeTeens.org
Free Teens is a reality-based, abstinence-centered HIV/AIDS, STDs, and Pregnancy Prevention program used in 38 states and in more than 70 countries around the world.

www.GreatToWait.com
This website is geared mostly to teens but offers helpful information for parents.  It is the Florida Department of Health statewide media campaign designed to generate awareness and motivate the community to reduce teen pregnancy.

www.OhioAbstinenceCampaign.org
The official web site for the Ohio Abstinence Campaign.

www.Peersproject.org
Sex is powerful. It creates lives, changes lives…and can ruin lives. The PEERS Project is a non-profit preventative health model in which high school-age mentors work with students ages 12-18 to make them aware of the power of sex, teach them that it's cool NOT to have sex, and demonstrate the wisdom of saving sex for marriage.

www.Teen-aid.org
Teen-Aid provides valuable abstinence education material for teens which stress character development and connection to parents.

www.ThinkItOver.org
An interactive web site with many features including real life stories about teens.

National Organizations that Supports Abstinence Education

www.physicianscenter.org
The National Physicians Center for Family Resources (NPC) was founded for the purpose of involving physicians in health and child welfare issues, both at the state and national levels. Physicians who are a part of the national network volunteer their time and expertise to promote best practices in public health and child welfare and to produce educational resources for families and health educators.  Three great resources on the website include Q&A Kids’ Questions/Parents’ Answers, Prescriptions for Parents: A Physician’s Guide to Adolescence and Sex, and STD PowerPoint Presentation.

www.TeenPregnancy.org
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy.  

www.Abstinence.net
The mission of the Abstinence Clearinghouse is to promote the appreciation for and practice of sexual abstinence (purity) until marriage through the distribution of age appropriate, factual and medically-referenced materials.  This is a giant resource for speakers, publications, medical information and the latest conferences and issues among abstinence educators.

www.cdc.org
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

www.Fatherhood.org
National Fatherhood Initiative’s mission is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers


www.Heritage.org
Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

www.medinstitute.org
The Medical Institute for Sexual Health confronts the global epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data. The Medical Institute's mission has been to identify, evaluate and communicate credible scientific data in practical, understandable and relevant formats to promote healthy sexual decisions and behavior.

www.Smartmarriage.com
The coalition serves as a clearinghouse to help people find the information they need to strengthen marriages and families - their own or those in their community.

www.YouthDevelopment.org
Institute for Youth Development (IYD) is unique in its commitment to a comprehensive risk-avoidance message regarding major risk behaviors among youth: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco, and violence.


Books that Supports Abstinence Education

EPIDEMIC: How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids
by Meg Meeker, M.D.
A "must read" book. Dr. Meg Meeker has lived on the front lines of the STD epidemic for more than twenty years. As a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine, she now sees STDs affect one-third of her patients. In this groundbreaking book, she examines in detail - and in easy to understand language - the threat of these diseases and the causes for their widespread advance among our teens. With practical help for parents and real life stories of how these diseases are impacting the lives of teens.

Questions Kids Ask About Sex: Honest Answers for Every Age book
Book by The Medical Institute for Sexual Health
Studies show that parents have the single greatest influence on their kids, but many are paralyzed by the prospect of talking about sex. This indispensable guide gives candid, practical, age-appropriate insights that can help even the most squeamish parent overcome their obstacles and "seize the day" to protect the health, hope and happiness of their children. Finally...real world answers to the honest and inquisitive questions today's kids are asking!

Condom Monograph
Sex, Condoms and STDs: What We Now Know
Booklet by The Medical Institute of Sexual Health
Over the last two years, some of the most important data ever disclosed about condoms has been compiled. This monograph features easy to understand summaries of all the major condom studies' findings, along with simplified explanations of complicated research concepts. This eye-opening evidence needs to be read and understood by every sexually active single and those who care about them.

Abstinence 101
Book by Abstinence Clearinghouse
Everything you need to know about abstinence education.



Videos on Abstinence Education

The Rules Have Changed
(Video – DVD)
This film could change your life … and could save the life of someone you love. Each and every day more than 8,000 teens contract a new STD and 85% of them don’t even know they have a life-threatening disease. As a teen, parent or friend, you need to know how to deal with this rampant epidemic. In this dramatically impactful film, three practicing medical professionals, who confront these diseases on a daily basis, pull no punches as they give truthful real-world answers to tough questions from teens.

No Apologies…The Truth about Life, Love, and Sex
(Video by Focus on the Family, running time 30 minutes)
Teens get the facts about sex — and the importance of purity — in this exciting release from Focus on the Family Films. Highlighting abstinence as the only true "safe sex," it's a powerful, hope-filled expose — that delivers an unforgettable message about strength, courage and character, revealing the importance of waiting until marriage to have sex and uncovering what happens when teens don't.

Just Thought You Oughta Know
(Video by Medical Institute of Sexual Health, running time 11 minutes)
This intense, award-winning video features teens talking to teens in their own language about the risks of any sexual contact–even when using a condom. It tells the real reasons why they can and should delay the onset of sexual activity. And for those already sexually active, it encourages them to stop and practice a healthier lifestyle. This is the message you need to share with today's teens. A great tool for educators, medical professionals, youth leaders, policy makers and parents!

Sex is Not a Game
(Video by Medical Institute of Sexual Health, running time 11 minutes)
This follow-up to the Telly-Award winning "Just Thought You Oughta Know" candidly confronts the dangers of today's casual attitudes about sex. With emotional appearances from teens, this gripping video encourages teens to re-think their risky sexual behavior and save sex for marriage.