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Abstinence Education

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Please visit our interactive website at: www.weldwaits.com

About:

WeldWAITS exists to:

  • Educate teens and parents about the benefits of delayed sexual debut
  • Equip them with skills needed to develop healthy relationships and
  • Empower them to realize their potential.

Services Provided:

School and Community Presentations: Utilizing the fun and interactive WAIT Training curriculum, presenters discuss topics such as boundaries, refusal skills, STDs, and benefits of delaying sex until marriage. Call 304-6470 x 2379 to schedule a presentation for your school or group!

Quinceanera Classes: In collaboration with Our Lady of Pweld_waits_group eace Church, WeldWAITS presents a rites of passage program in three parts that honors the Latino tradition of celebrating a girl's 15th birthday with a Quinceanera. To register, call 353-1747.

Parent Connects: To encourage and support parents as the #1 influence in their children's lives, WeldWAITS offers a new parent website linked to www.weldwaits.com and parenting workshops customized to meet your group's needs. For more information, call 304-6420 x 2423.

Medical Model of Sexual Cessation: Individualized counseling to help teens evaluate their current relationship and lifestyle choices. Free appointments scheduled at 304-6420 x2423.

RESIST: (Radically Empowering Students in Slaying Temptation): A mentoring program in which a group of Weld County high school students meet monthly with 5th graders at a local elementary school to educate, equip and empower them to make healthy choices in their teen years.

Technical Assistance: Assistance and resources available to help teachers, youth leaders, and others in developing or supplementing their abstinence programs..

WeldWAITS 2011 Highlights

Contact Information

Health Communication, Education and Planning
1555 N. 17th Ave.
Greeley, CO 80631
phone:(970) 304-6470
fax:(970) 304-6452
Melanie Cyphers, RN
phone:(970) 304-6470x2423
email:mcyphers@co.weld.co.us
Heidi Musil
Health Education Specialist
phone:(970) 304-6470x2379
email:hmusil@co.weld.co.us