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If you take a closer look at CPC Prevention, you will find that . . .

• Both youth and educators find our curricula to be relevant and effective, as it provides practical thinking skills, necessary support, and, most importantly, medically accurate information to help teens make healthy choices!
• Our unmatched team of educators enthusiastically presents a provocative message through our middle school and high school curricula.
• CPC Prevention is unique. We like simplicity. So, we've subtracted "gray" areas of compromise, replacing risk or fear with clear principles of "how" and "why."

CPC Prevention involves two different sex education curricula: Worth the Wait, our middle school curriculum, and Aspire, our high school curriculum. We also offer Operation Integrity (OI) training, a training program designed to equip educators to teach these curricula on school campuses throughout the Valley.

Specifically for the church, we have a strong and flexible offering of faith-based support in the various areas CPC serves, from the unborn to sexual integrity and parental support. (To request a speaker to come to your school, church, or organization, click here.)

The following lists ¹ summarize what CPC Prevention is and is not about:

What We're About

• We're about helping you make informed, educated decisions and smart choices that affect your life.
• We're about giving you FACTS about your health and your body.
• We're about keeping you safe and healthy and protecting your future.
• We're about encouraging you to delay the onset of sexual activity for medical, legal, and socioeconomic reasons.

What We're Not About

• We're not about saying sex is bad! It is great at the right time and stage in your adult life.
• We're not about mixed messages that make it hard to tell truth from fiction.
• We're not about keeping you from experiencing all that life has to offer.
• We're not about preaching to you.

Campus Engagement

CPC Prevention educators engage Valley classrooms in a variety of presentations. Powerful communication confronts a sex-saturated culture, by exposing realities and encouraging great hope beyond them. Young adults face a battle with STD's, unplanned pregnancy, and emotional turmoil unlike ever before. We can look around the classroom... observe Hollywood's relationships... or pop in a cd... notice the emphasis on sex and sex appeal?

More than anything we all need information to make the best decision... the more the better. Our thoughts and our actions flow from the information we digest. Thus, CPC Prevention is excited to bring the valuable essentials of abstinence-until-marriage onto local school campuses.
Our abstinence-until-marriage choice:consequence ratio (aka: critical thinking) lends principles that afford added support and decisive detail.

CPC Prevention educators are passionate to bring up-to-date, medically accurate facts and practical application in creative ways with unmatched zeal.

Fundamentals Taught:

• Critical thinking skills
• Healthy relationships
• Risk avoidance (physical/emotional distress)
• Dream-building

Data that Drives Our Work with the Community:

Arizona's teen pregnancy rate is one of the highest in the nation. Consider the following facts:

• Arizona has the fifth highest birthrate in the nation among the 15-19 year-old population at 60.1 per 1,000 girls.
• 7700 Arizona Latinas ages 10-19 were pregnant in 2005.
• Teen pregnancy cost Arizona $268 million in 2004.
• 82 percent of all teen births in 2005 were paid for by the state's Medicaid program.
• 1 in 4 females have herpes, as do 1 in 5 males.
• 1 in 4 "virgin" teens have engaged in oral sex.
• 62 percent of Arizona high school seniors have had sex. (Arizona Youth Risk Behavior Study; Patricia Jo Angelini, Executive Director of the Arizona Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting)

CPC Prevention is determined to see these numbers transformed for the better. The prevailing truth of our program meets the needs of this generation as it turns common indifference into proactive advocacy and unique support.

At CPC Prevention We See Red.

• Stop
• Be alert
• Proceed with caution

Teens face a battle with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unplanned pregnancy, and the resulting emotional turmoil unlike ever before. Look around the classroom; observe the relationships; notice the emphasis on sex and sex appeal.

What's missing? The choice:consequence ratio, otherwise known as critical thinking. We are passionate to bring up-to-date, medically accurate facts and practical application implemented by unmatched educators.

We have been entrusted with a vulnerable generation.

We must respond by compassionately equipping our youth for safe, exciting, and valuable futures.

To do this we carry a provocative message: abstinence, integrity, freedom.

¹ Taken from the curriculum Worth the Wait, developed by Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Temple, Texas.