Program Guidelines, Stats, and Considerations:
Our programs are designed to be supplemental programming in public and private schools in accordance with the Michigan Guidelines for Guest Speakers. We also partner with community organizations like churches, youth groups, and clubs to provide relationship education.
Our goal is to increase knowledge, build confidence, establish and strengthen the choice to set physical limits, and help each student recognize the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships with age-appropriate and medically accurate information. We employ a primary prevention health model to our programming as well as share information that encourages tertiary and secondary prevention where applicable. We engage students by encouraging them through coaching based learning, personal stories, and sharing tools and skills to navigate their own choices and decision-making while helping each student consider the benefits of sexual delay and risk avoidance. We also encourage students to speak with their parents/guardians and and/or a trusted adult to help strengthen their relationships and keep open lines of communication around these important issues.
As we have expanded our programming base, we continue to share the benefits of sexual delay and risk avoidance as strategies for obtaining optimal health. As of 2020 our online and in person (when possible) programming puts an even larger emphasis on the social, emotional, and mental aspects of healthy relationships with oneself and others. Our focus is to provide practical information and tools to help all individuals cultivate healthy relationships, make positive choices, and purpose to become the people they ASPIRE to be. Our message is for youth ages 12 and up of all races, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultures. We believe that all individuals not only deserve, but can have healthy relationships with themselves and others.
The Scope of our various program topics include:
Goal setting
Personal Commitments
Positive choices
Healthy vs unhealthy relationships
Childhood sexual abuse prevention and awareness
Social emotional learning (The Core Project Curriculum and Activities)
Boundary setting
Refusal and cessation skills
Stopping and starting over
Positive connections
Youth and trusted adult (i.e. parent/guardians/mentors/counselors) relationships
Creating a culture of respect
*This is not an exhaustive list as we are always looking for mission-centered ways to educate, equip, and empower individuals to make positive choices and have healthy relationships.