Did you know that Positive Choices Educators teach much more than just sexual abstinence?

Our Educators are knowledgeable in a variety of topics, as listed below and issues that face our children everyday. Contact Positive Choices today and we can discuss which programs could work best in your school. Our programs focus on youth and grouped into three different age categories; ages 9-11, ages 12-14, and age 15-18.

Topics Related To Sexuality Education

• Abstinence, what it is and why it is the best choice. An introduction to the concept of waiting until marriage to have sex.
  
• Sex, everybody is talking about it. Sex is so prevalent in our society that there seems to be an open invitation to participation, with no mention of the consequences.
  
• The risks of being sexually active. There are the health considerations, the emotional considerations, and the loss of self-esteem and a good reputation, just to mention a few.
  
• Aids and STI/STD’s: Truth and consequences. The feeling of invincibility gives teens the false impression that nothing bad is ever going to happen to them, and the society in which they live does next to nothing to say otherwise.
  
• Pressures to be sexually active. The world teens live in is full of pressures such as the media, parents, teachers, peers, etc., all seeming to pressure teens to grow-up faster then is healthy.
  
• Hang on to your hormones. What in the world is happening to my body and me? Everyone goes through this at on time or another.
  
• The dating game. The process by which teens learn about the opposite sex, and about how they respond to the education concerning them. Trial and error, what is it that they want in a life long committed partner.
  
• Healthy relationships. Learning the process of compromise. It’s all about give and take.
  
• Love and marriage. It really is hard work; infatuation is not enough.
  
• Standing up for yourself. A person has to like and respect themselves before they can truly feel that way about another person.
  
• Being assertive under pressure. Teens have to set boundaries and make sure that those that they date and call friends understand who they are and demand respect for that.
  
• Self love and self respect. The character building process by which an individual constructs the person he or she needs to be.
  
• Setting goals and following dreams. A wise man once said, “If we do not dream, we are already dead.” Learning to set goals, long term and short term, enables us to follow our dreams and make them come true.
  
• Sex sells: the use of sexual images in the media. An examination of why we accept the devaluation of the person to increase the value of material things.
  

Topics Related To Emotional Health

• Developing leadership. Learning to examine ourselves and understanding that we all are continuously stewards of leadership, either for good or bad, continuously through our daily actions.
  
• Anger is one letter away from danger. Anger does not have to be negative; it can be channeled to be a positive. Developing processes by which healthy, non-violent, non-harmful alternatives lead to constructive resolutions.
  
• Sadness, grief, depression…finding hope. The process by which one comes to the understanding of Spiritual strength possessed by each individual and the relationship between one’s self and their spirit to strengthen them for difficult times and situations.
  
• Feeling familiar in your family. Understanding that just being there physically does not make a family. You have to invest time in learning about each other and your roles within the structure.
  
• Abnormal use (of power) minus “normal” = Abuse. A process of identifying not only physical, but also emotional abuse. An examination of the mental stress.
  
• Stranger danger- decreasing risks of victimization. An educational piece of setting other types of boundaries. It’s not just a face-to-face problem; it’s happening over the Internet too.
  
• Overcoming barriers. Educating teens about barriers, real and imagined. How we approach them can sometimes make them bigger then they really are.
  

Topics Related To Relationships With Authority

• Discipline & Punishment. Why parents need to be parents. A process of teens developing the character traits needed to discipline themselves, thereby eliminating the need for punishment.
  
• How to be a rebel with a good cause. Understanding that having a different point of view does not have to be a negative. Believing in one’s cause should always be associated with knowledge and understanding, both of your beliefs and those of the other person.
  
• Listening to your “inner adult”. An area that can be either good or bad. It requires you to construct that inner spiritual self for good that makes the difference.
  

Topics Related To Drugs And Alcohol

• Bringing underground drugs to the surface. An examination of the issues involving peer pressure and personal consequences to illegal drug use.
  
• Drugs/alcohol + dating = danger. What might the consequences be physically, mentally, and emotionally of mixing drugs and alcohol with dating?
  
• Gateway drugs: laying a path toward dependency. Let’s look at the evidence and hopefully come to the conclusion that it’s far better to never even opening the door.
  

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