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Why Choosing the Best Works:

Choosing the Best utilizes the following five keys to effective abstinence and relationship education:

• Motivational Learning Environment — Video vignettes of real-life teens, in-depth discussions, classroom exercises and role-plays engage the students in learning.
• Medical Learning Model — Current information on STDs, emotional consequences and teen pregnancy.
• Relationship Education and Refusal Skills — Provides students with the confidence to handle negative peer and relationship pressures.
• Parent Involvement — Student Manual provides at-home opportunities for parent-student interaction.*
• Character Education — Students are challenged to develop respect, self-respect, compassion, honesty and courage.

             *LIFE, PATH and WAY only.

For additional information contact:
Heidi Porter - Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coordinator - 740-439-3558  Ext. 238

Choosing the Best LIFE

Grades 8-10. One-fourth of new STDs occur in boys and girls aged 15-19. Eight lessons emphasize the straight facts about health risks — and give students the emotional strength and self-discipline to commit to abstinence until marriage.

Choosing the Best PATH — NEW! Third Edition

Grades 7-8. One in 5 Americans aged 12 and up contract genital herpes. Assertiveness training in these eight lessons engages students in learning how to say “NO” to premarital sex and “YES” to healthy relationships.

Choosing the Best WAY

Grades 6-7. Nearly 1 in 10 kids reports losing virginity before age 13. Early intervention is crucial to lifelong health, and these six lessons teach abstinence as the best way to show respect for yourself and others.

For more information go to the "Choosing the Best" website:
http://www.choosingthebest.com