Classroom Resources
FREE RESOURCES
Helping Adolescents Recognize Healthy Dating Relationships
Benefits of Healthy Marriages (U.S. DHHS Healthy Marriage Initiative)
www.abstinenceworks.org
Click on the link above to the new website developed by National Abstinence Education Assoication (NAEA)
Free Resources on Dating Violence
This resource comes from The Dibble Institute and is entitled, “Dating Violence Protocol for Educators.”
Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Fact Sheet
The STI Fact Sheet comes from The Medical Institute for Sexual Health and gives updates on frequently asked questions concerning STI’s such as Chlamydia, Genital Herpes, Gonorrhea, and etc.
Teens & The Internet: Addressing OnLine Sexual Risks
This document addresses online risks associated with sexual issues. Concerns about online sexual predators and pornography have predominated the media attention, but there is a range of sexually related online risks and concerns that must be addressed. Please make note of Appendix A – Internet Tips for Teens & Appendix B: – Internet Safety Education for Teens.
Boys and Girls Learn Differently: The Science of Gender & Learning Web Cast
Kathy Stevens from the Gurian Institute explains how developmental differences in the brain manifest in the way boys and girls grow and learn differently.
Referral Information for Services Not Provided by Make a Sound Choice
Accurate and Neutral Adoption Language to Use With Students
A Scientific Review of Abstinence and Abstinence Education Programs
Offers abstinence educators an overview of the individual and societal benefits of abstinence, and a summary of the most recent research evaluating abstinence education programs.
An Abstinence Educator’s Guide: Marrying the Abstinence and Marriage Message
Lays the groundwork for understanding the importance and benefits of marriage for both adults and children. More importantly…it highlights the crucial role that abstinence education can play in helping teens achieve their expressed goal of having successful marriages as adults.
RESOURCES TO PURCHASE
This program teaches students about the complexities and joys of a wide variety of relationships, including friendships and family, infatuations and first romances, enduring commitments and marriage. Studying short stories, poems, essays, folk tales, and myths empowers teachers to help students connect ideas in literature to choices in real life and the skills necessary to achieve healthy relationships.
Why Buy the Cow When You Can Get the Milk for Free?
Increasingly, young people start living together, without much awareness of their real motivation, potential consequences and alternatives. Why Buy the Cow? reveals the myths of cohabitation and offers surprising facts that teens need now – as habits of the heart are being formed.
Adoption University® is a comprehensive program designed to educate and inform youth about positive, ethical adoption information. The thought-provoking lectures and activities in Adoption University® allow students to consider how adoption touches people’s lives.
The Medical Institute offers a private, members-only, resource for those who desire up -o-date, medically accurate information at their fingertips 24 hours a day. The Gold membership level is designed for you to become a member of this community with access to medically based, scientifically sound information and with information that is geared specifically to health educators and abstinence educators. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
