WAIT Training is excited to annouce Three amazing Five Year grant awards:
- CDC-DASH
- Community Based Abstinence Education
- Healthy Marriage Initiative
For Release:
Contact: Joneen Krauth-Mackenzie RN, BSN
October 11, 2006 (720) 488-8888
WAIT Training Announces Three Major Federal Grants to Benefit Colorado
Grants Will Fund Important Family Support Programs
Greenwood Village, Colo. – Why Am I Tempted (WAIT) Training, a Greenwood Village based nonprofit in collaboration with the Colorado Healthy Marriage Initiative and the Community Based Abstinence Education Program announced today the receipt of three major multi million dollar federal grants benefiting Colorado families, youth and communities. The areas of emphasis include healthy marriage, relationship enhancement and fatherhood.
This effort has received support from a diverse group of individuals and community based organizations as well as Colorado State agencies. This grant will enable WAIT Training to provide several staff development trainings to teachers, parents, counselors, medical professionals, youth serving agency personnel, health and human service providers as well as faith leaders to enable and empower teens with skills to make healthy decisions about their future and about their families. The goals of the project are to:
- reduce out of wedlock birth rates
- reduce STDs and HIV
- reduce drug and alcohol use
- teach healthy relationship skills
- increase the value of marriage
- increase the age of onset of sexual debut
- reduce the number of sexual partners
- reduce sexual activity
- increase the number of teens who are willing to commit to abstinence
- increase the number of previously sexually active teens who are now choosing abstinence
“We are delighted to be able to serve the community with these funds”, reports Executive Director Joneen Krauth Mackenzie RN
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