Program Components

True 2 You:

The True 2 You Middle School curriculum is specifically designed as an intervention to unhealthy behaviors, especially early sexual activity.  The program presents abstinence until marriage as the best and healthiest choice for students.

The presentations concentrate on the potential physical consequences of sexual activity before marriage, as well as the emotional and relational consequences of promiscuity.

The three day sessions will establish through discussion, role-playing, and question and answer sessions that living an abstinent lifestyle has lifelong rewards. The students are led to a better understanding of the complex nature of the subject, while identifying the choices they have and how those choices have either positive benefits or negative consequences. The goal of the program is to empower students and inspire them to make choices that will enable them to live their best life. Participating students receive informational postcards at the conclusion of the sessions.  

The True 2 You High School curriculum is composed of two ninety minute presentations in two consecutive days. Day one is discussion based laced with interactive activities concentrating on the dangers of sexual activity outside of marriage including both physical and emotional consequences. The recurring theme of the program highlights the concept that living an abstinent lifestyle leads to enhanced self-esteem, self-respect, and emotional well-being and maturity as well as complete protection from STDs and untimely pregnancy.

On day two students are given the opportunity to review the material from day one, and play a trivia game covering all related topics including STD prevalence, transmission, and contraception failure rates.   Time for student questions is allowed followed by True 2 You informational giveaways and various sexual health brochures.  

True 2 You is designed:

• to promote abstinence as an attainable goal for all students
• to develop students' self-esteem
• to improve students' life options through exercises in 
• responsibility
• making better choices
• dealing with peer pressure and
• to discover the realities of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy.

The Independent Girl's Club

The Independent Girl’s Club is an on-going twelve session prevention program in a small group setting, targeting sixth grade girls

This program operates on the principle that “choices direct the course of life.”

Its aim is to assist members in setting standards and goals by which to govern their lives that will decrease the pitfalls along the way.

It will equip group members with healthy life skills by implementation of activities that are interactive with guided hands-on activities.

Sessions will include homework assignments that will cause group members to navigate towards their support system, promoting parental involvement in the child’s exploration of the topics at hand.

Ultimately, we strive to offer guidance to a young girl that is exposed to multiple risk factors that would influence her life choices in a negative way.

Based on a foundation of respect for self, as well as respect for others, this program strives to create a pathway to success for its group members. 

Heartsmart

Heartsmart is Worth Waiting 4!’s faith-based curriculum. This program is a biblically based, abstinence-until-marriage presentation that every youth in our community needs to hear.

Guided discussion focuses on God’s plan for sex, and the benefits of honoring God with our minds and bodies.

Prior to the teen presentation, parents participate in a short but comprehensive eye opening presentation which lays a foundation necessary for parents to understand the dangers that plague this generation of teens.

The presentation focuses on equipping parents to continue the discussion of sex with their teens long after the Heartsmart message is over.  It also covers the impact of media and music messages that are being sent to their teens that ultimately encourage and glamorize sexual activity, as well as updates on current statistics and medical information.

The interactive teen presentation includes scripture reading, guided discussion on God’s design for sex, lust verses love, tips on dating and remaining sexually pure, as well as encouragement for those who have not waited to choose renewed virginity. Games are incorporated to present STD facts and statistics and also media awareness.  The information is presented in an inclusive manner, and teens are encouraged to ask questions and participate in discussion.

Sexual Integrity Circle

The Sexual Integrity Circle is a group that meets weekly at the PCC to offer education, guidance and support to single young adults on the topic of abstinence. Abstinence is a lifestyle choice rooted in the principles of self-control and delayed gratification, two principles that our culture has allowed to fall into the shadows.     

In our sexually charged culture, young adults are bombarded with pressure to engage in sexual activity. We are living in a day and age when the media is the number one educator of our youth. Television, movies, magazines, music and video games send our youth the message that casual sex is a way in which they can measure their personal worth.  Casual sex is celebrated. Sexual messages strongly permeating our culture coupled with the undeniable sense that “everyone is doing it,” creates a strong push that influences many teens in their decisions regarding their sexual health.     

The Sexual Integrity Circle is a discussion based support group which aims to offer arguments to refute the heralding of our casual sex culture. This group gives our youth a place to decompress when it comes to sexual pressure, and provides accountability and a support network for those who want to protect themselves and their future through abstinence.

parentWISE

Worth Waiting 4! believes that parents or guardians should be the primary sex educators of their teens.  We want to encourage communication between parents or guardians and their children.   

Through parentWISE, newsletter/flyers will be distributed to the parents or guardians of seventh grade students in the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools.   

The newsletter will provide tools for parents or guardians to impact their teenagers by helping them make positive, healthy choices.  National surveys report that parents who express disapproval of sexual activity before marriage are less likely to have sexually active teens.

The choice to be sexually active these days is a very dangerous one.   Today, there are nearly 25 different STDs and most of them have no cure.  As many as 33,000 new cases of sexually transmitted diseases are recorded every day in the United States.  Sexually transmitted diseases in women, especially teenage girls aged 15-19, are more severe and more damaging than STDs in men.  Although embarrassing and painful, STDs can also cause emotional stress, infertility, cancer, and even death.   

Many STDs are not prevented by using a condom.  Research show that condoms may not prevent the transmission of most STDs.  Condoms offer only risk reduction of diseases and pregnancy, not risk elimination.  In fact, condoms offer no protection from Human Papilloma Virus-an incurable virus linked to cancer.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE:
TRUE or FALSE

• 1 in 2 sexually active people will contract an STD by age 25
• A person can be infected and NOT know it
• Some STDs have NO cure; some are fatal
• Every day, 8,000 teens become infected with an STD
• Condoms offer no protection against HPV
• 7 out of 10 teen mothers drop out of school
• 1 person every 13 minutes contracts HIV in the US
• Every 29 minutes a teen becomes pregnant in NC
• Teens aged 15-19 are at greater risk of STDs than adults
• 25% of new HIV/AIDS cases are under 22 years old

ALL THESE STATEMENTS ARE
TRUE

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