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Through a comprehensive 23-session program, Healthy Respect teaches adolescents how to build healthy relationships, increase self-esteem, set goals, and develop the skills to set appropriate boundaries in order to achieve these future goals. Our program shares the risks of sexually transmitted infections and medically accurate information about contraception: guiding the students to the understanding that abstinence is the healthiest choice. Additional components of the Healthy Respect program include Parent Workshops, Communication Workshops, a Peer Educator Program and After-School Dance and Media Workshops.
» http://www.healthrespect.org
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
» http://www.acf.dhhs.gov
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.
» http://www.awaitandfind.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.
» http://www.cdc.gov
The Children's AIDS Fund works to limit suffering of children and their families caused by HIV disease by providing care, services, resources, referrals, and education.
» http://www.childrensaidsfund.org/
EdWatch is committed to educating the public about the unprecedented movement of the U.S. workforce, the U.S. economy and the entire educational system toward a centrally planned and controlled federal system. EdWatch is working with business leaders to alert them to the undermining of America's free market economy and constitutional freedoms by the restructuring of education and the workforce. EdWatch is working with parents toward a broad, knowledge-based education that meets the objectives of parents, schools, school boards and businesses.
» http://www.edwatch.org
ELI provides abstinence materials and tools for youth workers, specifically those in the developing world, free and downloadable from their website. ELI is currently involved in an exciting media campaign in Haiti which utilizes dramatic film, radio, and comic books to address HIV/AIDS through abstinence and faithfulness.
» http://www.eliprojects.org
4parents.gov was initially developed by the NPC in cooperation with the U.S. Health and Human Services' Office of Population Affairs under the President's Adolescent Health Initiative. This site is a guide to help parents and adolescents discuss important, yet difficult issues about sex and relationships.
» http://4parents.gov
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.
» http://www.heritage.org
Promotes a comprehensive risk avoidance message for the major youth risk behaviors: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco and violence.
» http://www.youthdevelopment.org
The Medical Institute is a nonprofit medical organization designed to confront the world epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data.
» http://www.medinstitute.org
The mission of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) is to improve the well-being of children by increasing the number of children growing up with loving, committed and responsible fathers.
» http://www.fatherhood.org
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of health topics.
» http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov
Safe Harbor is dedicated to educating communities and restoring families who have youth involved in rebellious behaviors. Safe Harbor provides families and their teens an opportunity to deal with their personal hardships in a confidential, positive and safe environment. Safe Harbor's Resource Department is dedicated to educating the community and training educators on the dangerous youth culture.
"The best deterrent to family heartache is the presence of a well-informed parent"
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» http://www.thesafeharbor.org
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
» http://www.hhs.gov
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