Our Mission
The mission of the F.A.C.T. Foundation (Foundational Advice Concerning Teens) is to educate and support youth and their parents in building a positive sense of future through character-building, relational wellness education. The goal of relational wellness is to help young people build their psychological, emotional, and physical well being by empowering them to make healthy choices, including delaying sexual activity until marriage. FACT's programs offer character building skills and support for young people to make critical life choices regarding:
Relationships
Sexual involvement
Use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
WAIT TRAINING presents dynamic workshops that equip and empower you to mobilize your community with lessons concerning abstinence, relationship, positive youth development, character, life skills and marriage preparation.
WAIT Training answers the questions
- How did we get from Mary Tyler Moore to MTV?
- Why is the government getting in the marriage business? (Do they want to be a federal dating service?)
- What is so great about marriage anyway?
- What about gay or questioning students?
- How can we get a handle on poverty?
- How can we prevent crime?
- How do we get teens to their hopes and dreams?
- How can we reduce the drama so kids can learn?
- Does relationship education work?
- What about the teens who are already sexually active or even pregnant and parenting?
- How can adults make a positive and powerful impact for the next generation?
Medical Cessation Seminar
The W.A.I.T. Training Medical Cessation Intervention workshop imparts strategic tools that can be used in a clinical setting to guide sexually active adolescents toward healthier decision making skills with respect to sex, relationships and substance abuse. The program was initiated by medical professionals who wanted to do more to address the widespread problems of STDs, unintended pregnancies, emotional distress and other risk behaviors associated with sexual activity in adolescents.
What is FACT's impact on the Community?
In addition to providing classroom presentations and youth assemblies to students in schools, FACT Foundation also sponsors nationally recognized abstinence speakers to make presentations to the Western Slope community. Barbara and Rick Wise (WiseChoices), Keith Deltano (Freedom Entertainment), and Joneen Mackenzie (WAIT Training) are a few of the professional speakers that have offered abstinence education to the community.
What's new in relationship education?
"Friends with Benefits"
Many young people believe they can engage in sexual activity with their "friends" and enjoy the benefits of sex without the commitment or passion...click on this link to find out more! www.cwfa.org
Does Relationship Education Work?"
(Click on link to view report)
Fewer Teens Sexually Active One Year After Abstinence Education
Abstinence Accounts for 67% Decrease in Teen Pregnancies During the 1990's
An Abstinence Program's Impact on Cognitive Mediators and Sexual Initiation
According to the March, 2006 brief from the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Human Services Policy of the Federal Government, Abstinence is Strongly Supported by the Public. The reasons for this are given as follows:
~ An abstinence lifestyle is the healthiest choice for teens. Abstinence education is clear and unambiguous in its message about non-marital sex. It also aims to build self-esteem, helps teens understand and aspire to healthy marriages and parenthood, and teaches skills that will help youth make and follow through on good decisions.
~ An abstinence lifestyle has strong support from teens and adults. Nearly all teens (94%) and adults (91%) believe that teens should be given a strong message from society that they should not have sex until they are at least out of high school. This support has remained high (90% or better) in every National Campaign survey conducted since 1997. In addition, most adults (83%) and teens (85%) believe that teen pregnancy prevention programs should teach young people to be married before they have a child.
~ Teens express more cautious attitudes about their decision to engage in sex. Nearly two-thirds of all teens who have already had sex said they wish they had waited longer before engaging in sex.
Click Here for more information on recent studies.
(Source: Albert, B. (2004) With One Voice: America's Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, Washington, DC; National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.)
