Prevention
ARC's Active Relationships for Young Adults (A.R.Y.A.) program has been successfully utilized to delay youth from sexual interaction and to deter teen pregnancy.
The standard ARYA program already contains information about how the human body can mistake chemistry for love, about being careful in choosing friends, about dating rights and dating safety, about remaining abstinent until marriage, about qualities to consider in a lifelong partner, personal goal setting and self-discipline in emotions and in relationships.
In addition to the standard ARYA program, some federal grantees have chosen, with ARC's collaboration, to also include in their project, medically accurate information about sexually transmitted infections. For example: two independent El Paso area school districts working under a federal CBAE grant awarded to the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin Texas, initiated a project called Paso a Paso with the purpose of promoting abstinence until marriage while developing healthy relationship skills among youth ages 12-18.
Contact ARC for more information on the successful outcome of this project.
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