EDUCATORS
Booster Training
Fargo, ND – Oak Grove High School
June 7 – 8, 2010
Space is limited…CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM
Graduate Credit APPROVED from NDSU ($50 fee to be paid by attendees)
Topics:
• The Culture of Dating & Marriage in America
• Oxcytocin Related to Bonding During Sexual Activity
• Consequences of STDs (Chlamydia)
• Birth Control Use Among Adolescent Females
THE CASE FOR MAINTAINING ABSTINENCE EDUCATION
The President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2010 would eliminate abstinence education funding. The Obama Administration has instead requested the creation of yet another comprehensive sex education program, the “Teen Pregnancy Prevention” program. The House of Representatives has included this request in their annual appropriations bill that is now moving through Congress. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL REPORT.
WHAT ARE EDUCATORS SAYING…
about our trainings…
- “I learned a lot of new things that I can use in future interactions with youth.”
- “…presentation was excellent!”
- “…input into the activities…how to present and how to apply was great”
- “Excellent program – all of it was worth my time.”
- “I am at the point where I feel the need for a new passion – you have given me that.”
about what they find happening after they implement the material with students…
- After teaching the unit on STDs to classes of juniors in high school, one teacher had three junior girls come to her separately to visit with her about specific questions or issues that they had. In each case, they all three mentioned how important that STD information was to them and how they felt that it needed to be taught earlier.
- “…now students from last year are coming to me and asking questions.”
about supplemental material provided by MSC…
- After receiving a video about A.C. Green, one educator said, “Thank you so much for sending that! Since the kids didn’t know who A.C. Green was, this will be the perfect thing to show in class tomorrow.”
- “I just wanted to thank…the Make a Sound Choice organization for providing me with the training to be able to share this information with students. It is awesome to be able to talk to them about things that they are dealing with, even though it is sad that they are dealing with these issues.”
- “Make a Sound Choice is SO willing to share resources (tapes, books, curricula). It is so wonderful to have these new up-to-date resources at our fingertips.”
QUOTE
“In the final analysis, the issue of cohabitation comes down to a conflict between adult desire and children’s needs………marriage has not changed in its importance for children….and there is no other institution in sight that could successfully replace it.”
- David Popenoe (The National Marriage Project, www.marriage.rutgers.edu)
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Youth Resource Connections – U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Youth Services is offering interesting grant opportunities and links to resources. CLICK HERE to receive more information on this opportunity.
This funding opportunity and resource is NOT sponsored/endorsed by Make a Sound Choice.
OTHER
Study: Risky Behavior Among Teens Fueled by Fatalism
California teachers, aides and counselors in the public school systems there gave $2 to support the gay marriage ban this past fall for every $1 they gave to oppose it. One teacher, with 20 years of teaching experience, said that gay marriage is one more thing happening in the lives of young people that is not going to help them. Click here for the full article.
