With ceaseless pressures facing young people, there is a great need to provide direction and solutions. It is up to us all to help teens learn how to deal with sexual pressures intelligently and responsibly. However, offering help is not enough; by illustrating to young people and their families the benefits of abstinence until marriage while teaching them character-building tools, we help teens help themselves.
Abstinence the Better Choice, Inc. (ABC) has made it our mission to teach children and teens virtues that equip them to make responsible, educated, healthy decisions regarding premarital sex, alcohol and drugs. ABC incorporated in 1994 in order to promote and provide age-appropriate, parent involved abstinence and character education in schools and community settings.
As the owner of Responsible Social Values Program and C.A.T.S. (Concerned About Teen Sexuality) programs, we reach children and teens nationally through character-driven lessons of respect, self-control, honesty, courage and responsibility.
Either C.A.T.S. or Responsible Social Values Program are "Title V" and "ACF Community-Based Abstinence Education Programs" eligible. Many groups throughout the country are using "Title V" and "ACF Community-Based Abstinence Education Programs" to operate either C.A.T.S. or Responsible Social Values Program.
A letter from a student:
"At RSVP I liked that we got to know what diseases are out there to harm us. Abstinence means to resist like drugs, sex, tobacco, and alcohol. Before I participated in RSVP, I agreed with abstinence until marriage because I need to be done with school and have a job too. I practice sexual abstinence by not going through Phase 2, which is kissing. When caught in the moment, stop it now! In RSVP they covered all the subjects. Thank you for coming in our class. We had a great time. Thank you very much."
When asked what opinions of theirs have changed since hearing our presentations, some high school students said:
"I have my whole life to be with the man I love and marry and that I can save myself."
"I want to stay a virgin."
"My opinions of abstinence have changed. Now I don't feel like everybody around me is having sex. Keep up the good work!"
Looking for our 13 Themes?
Visit our C.A.T.S. and RSVP pages
Our February-March 2008 Newsletter is online!
Read it here.
Listen to Cheryl Biddle WCVE Community Issues audio recordings here. Track1 and Track2
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