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Best Friends

Best Friends Foundation

1Soft Cover

Best Friends provides a character-building curriculum with an abstinence-only philosophy, an intensive peer support structure, and long-term adult involvement. Each year, Best Friends girls receive at least 110 hours of instruction, mentoring, and group activities. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Parenting, Step-family & Step-parenting, Fatherhood, Teen Dating, Teacher Resource

Art of Loving Well, The

Boston University

2 sets: 2 Soft Cover, Teacher's Guide

This anthology contains forty-one readings, selected from time-honored classics as well as some of the best contemporary adolescent literature. Each selection is accompanied by a variety of creative learning activities to accommodate the goals of individual teachers. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Parenting, Step-family & Step-parenting, Teen Dating, Teacher Resource

Substance Abuse Resource Packet

Wyoming Healthy Marriage Initiative

1 3-Ring Binder

This Resource Packet is to help you learn more about Substance Abuse and how you might help.

Substance  Abuse & Teacher Resources

Abstinence 101

Abstinence Clearinghouse

1 Soft Cover

Everything you need to know about abstinence education. This is a crucial book for every parent, teacher, health worker, and health education provider to read and to understand. It contains the truth about abstinence education and debunks the myths of so called “comprehensive” sex education programs. Also contains a section of practical tips for incorporating a success full abstinence education program in your area. Our children deserve the best we can give them. When it comes to their sexual health, only abstinence education ensures happy and healthy futures. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

Celebrating Changes

David Scherer, Linda Klepacki

1 Soft Cover

This equips pastors, youth workers and parents to address the growing concerns of sexuality among this age group in a safe environment and in culturally relevant ways. **This contains faith based information.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

Friends First Mentoring Program

Friends First

1 Set: Leaders Guide, 2 handbooks, 2 Cassette Tapes, 1 VHS Tape

This program has been tested in Longmont, CO for and has been successful in keeping teens abstinent from all high-risk behaviors including pre-marital sex, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.  FRIENDS FIRST has seen the mentoring program work in urban and rural areas across the country. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

How & When to Tell Your Kids About Sex

Stanton L. and Brenna B Jones

1 Hard Cover

MORE THAN A NERVOUS DISCUSSION OF THE BIRDS AND THE BEES: Our children are bombarded with messages and information about sex —in our neighborhoods, schools, and media— with discussions, stories, jokes, mixed messages, and debates. Stan and Brenna Jones suggest that sex education is really not so much a matter of providing information as it is a matter of deliberate character formation. How and When to Tell Your Kids About Sex will help you to move beyond the "sweaty palms and lump-in-the-throat" moment.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

How to Talk to Your Kids about Sexuality **

David L Scherrer & Linda Kelapacki

1 Soft Cover

Whether parents want to believe it or not, their teens are thinking about sex. Because kids are thinking about it, parents need to be ready to talk about it. This book offers practical advice for approaching the subject of sex in a way that is comfortable for both kids and parents. Biblical perspectives provide the foundation for a healthy view on sexuality, while social perspectives help parents understand the many influences impacting kids today. *This contains faith based information.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

I’m Just a Kid

Abstinence Clearinghouse

Article

Discusses the psychological dynamics that influence teen abstinence as well as the psychological dynamics of teenagers who become sexually active after interviewing 40 teens in the Chicago area.  It also discusses the psychosexual development of teens , what influences teen decision to become or abstain from sex, the predictors of sexual activity, and recommendations based upon the study. 

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

It Takes Courage

Marcia Ball and Jennie Curello

1 Soft Cover

Over 150 activities, illustrations, stories, quotes and poems. A one of a kind resource guide designed for any caring adult who is interested in making a difference in the lives of youth. Through its interactive learning strategies, this guide will enable you to help youth to discover a vision for their lives, improve their communication skills, build healthy relationships, make wise decisions, and avoid the dangerous consequences of early sexual involvement and drug use. Its unique approach is easily adaptable to any setting, and will help adolescents to develop essential character traits, practical life skills, and the courage to make healthy choices in today’s challenging world.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

Talk About Sex

Martha Kempner, Monica Rodriguez

1 Soft Cover

Each chapter in Talk About Sex answers many questions young people have about sexuality from the most basic information about how the body works, including male and female body parts and their function, to sexual rights that all young people should be afforded, including the right to accurate information about sexuality and the right to protect themselves from pregnancy and STDs, including HIV/AIDS. Talk About Sex also provides young people with additional resources to obtain reliable information on each of the many topics addressed.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

WAIT Training

1 3-Ring Binder

WAIT (Why Am I Tempted?) Training is a positive, fun, interactive curriculum for character and relationship development, abstinence and marriage preparation. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

What Kids Want to Know About Sex and Growing Up

Sesame Workshop

1 VHS

This is an extensively researched program for 10-14 year olds that makes it easier to talk to students about puberty and sex. In straightforward discussions, sex educators Bob Selverstone and Rhonda Wise offer reassuring answers to kids' questions and correct potentially dangerous misinformation. Topics include: the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, sexual intercourse, AIDS, conception, masturbating, peer pressure, parenting and more.

Teen Dating & Teacher Resources

Ending Violence in Teen Dating Relationships **

Al Miles

1 Soft Cover

Al Miles helps readers understand how offenders use popular culture and Christian traditions to excuse and justify their violence. And most important,  he offers parents and pastors key strategies to build bridges with the teens in their lives and protect them, in order to end violence in teen dating relationships. **This contains faith based information.

Teen Dating, Domestic Violence, Teacher Resource

Little Book of Great Dates, The

Michael & Tiffany Ross

1 Soft Cover

Unique, fun & meaningful dating ideas.

Teen Dating, Marriage Enrichment

Complete Idiot's Guide To Dating, The

Dr. Judy Kuriansky

1 Soft Cover

This book will give you the latest, hottest tips on everything you need to know. Including how to plug into cyberdating-and then transmit your relationship into the real world; the best places to meet Mr. or Ms. Right-including concerts, museums, sporting events, amusement parks and many more; the secrets of attraction-that really work!; and creative ideas on where to go and how to act on the first date-so you can count on a second one.

Teen Dating, Marriage Preparation, Teacher Resource

Connections Dating & Emotions

Charlene Kamper

2 sets: 3-Ring Binder

Dating and Emotions curricula developed by The Dibble Fund is nationally recognized and serves students at the high school level in learning how to establish healthy relationships with their peers, families, boy/girl friends, and eventually their spouses.   Designed to be delivered in a classroom format with 17 lessons; Lessons include: Am I ready; Ask, Accept, or Decline; What’s the Rush; How Relationships Grow; What Should I Say; Feeling Alone; and more. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource

Connections Relationship & Marriage

Charlene Kamper

2 sets: 3-Ring Binder

Relationship and Marriage curricula developed by The Dibble Fund is nationally recognized and serves students at the high school level in learning how to establish healthy relationships with their peers, families, boy/girl friends, and eventually their spouses.   Designed to be delivered in a classroom format with 17 lessons; Lessons include: Am I ready; Ask, Accept, or Decline; What’s the Rush; How Relationships Grow; What Should I Say; Feeling Alone; and more. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource

Fearless Love **

Stanton L. and Brenna B Jones

1 Soft Cover

Making sexual choices that honor God. Teens hear-and see-a lot about sex these day. Now you can give them the real truth about sexuality and challenge them to make sexual choices. This eight session study for high school aged students exposes the lies about sexuality that are so prevalent in our culture and gives students a solid foundation. Each candid lesson equips leaders to answer the tough-and sometimes delicate-questions that youth have about sex. Equipping parents, pastors, and youth workers to address the growing concerns of sexuality among high school students in a safe environment and in culturally relevant ways. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING. **This contains faith based information.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource, Community Provider

Love U2 Relationship Smarts Plus

Marline Pearson

1 3-Ring Binder, Power Point, Student Workbook

“Increasing your Relationship Smarts” is a series of units that help young people acquire practical skills for emotionally healthy and ethically sound relationships. It focuses on helping teens craft a roadmap toward what they hope to achieve, not just what they must avoid.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource, Community Provider

Five Love Languages Of Teenagers**

Gary Chapman

2 Soft Cover, 1 Parent Study Guide, 1 Set: DVD, Soft Cover, Parent Study Guide

Are you equipped to love your teenager effectively? Never before has the task of parenting teenagers been more perplexing. Despite the peer pressure that teenagers face, it is still parents who influence the love. Love is the most functional building blocks of parent-teen relationships. According to Dr. Gary Chapman parents must learn to express their love in a language that makes sense to their teenager. Some teens long for tender words; others desire a gentle touch, a thoughtful gift, a kind deed or quality time spent together. Find out which one of these love languages your child speaks: Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. *This contains faith-based information.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource, Community Provider, Parenting, Step-family & Step-parenting, Fatherhood

How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk

John Van Epp, Ph.D.

2 Hard Cover, 1 Set: 6 DVD's, 3-Ring Binder Instructor Manual

The foolproof way to follow your heart without losing your mind. It's happened to everyone: you meet someone and fall madly in love and all good judgment and prespective are thrown out the window-until slowly you realize this person isn't who you thought he or she was. But follow the steps in How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk-a proven program used by thousands of singles worldwide-and break the destructive dating patterns that have prevented your happiness in the past. THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN SMALL GROUP SETTING.

Teen Dating, Teacher Resource, Marriage Preparation