Healthy Relationships (A.W.A.R.E.)
A.W.A.R.E. - Abstinence Wait-Training and Relationship Education
-empowers teens to make healthy choices
-emphasis on self-control and refusal skills for sex, drugs, and alcohol
-abstinence until marriage is the main theme
Additional topics discussed:
- Goal setting
- Maturity
- Consequences of sexual activity
- Making new decisions
- True intimacy
- Refusal skills
- Love versus infatuation
- The benefits of marriage
- Signs of an abusive relationship
- How to heal
- Date rape/molestation
- Key ingredients for a healthy marriage/relationship
- Brain chemistry and sex
- The addictive nature of pornography
- Equipping and encouraging parents
AWARE's mission is empowering teens, encouraging parents and equipping the community. AWARE's Vision is to encourage a culture that embraces and supports abstinence and healthy marriages.
AWARE offers a variety of programs and presentations. These programs are appropriate for a wide range of ages and groups, including public schools, private schools and any youth-serving organization. TCPN also has a program that is tailored for church youth groups.
The Foundations Presentation:
Is geared towards students from middle school and through 12th grade. This is a 2-3 day presentation designed to be done in the class room or small group setting, such as a youth group. Students are asked to take a pre and post survey. This survey will give students the chance to evaluate the presentation . Students will also receive an abstinence pledge card for private consideration.
The Advanced Curriculum:
Is geared towards student from 10th-12th grade and young college age students. It is a 2-day presentation that addresses the specific issues applicable to older students. Students examine cultural beliefs about sex and marriage; they learn skills for understanding themselves; they learn about sexual progression, the stages of relationships and setting healthy boundaries.
AWARE Parents Workshop:
Is a 2-hour presentation. Parents learn skills to talk with their kids about healthy choices and saving sex until marriage. Most parents are embarrassed, uncomfortable and uneducated when it comes to talking to their kids about sex. Yet, current studies reveal that parents have the greatest influence on the decisions teens make about sex. Our parent workshops are designed to help parents make the most of their unique position of influence to protect their teens.
For more Information:
Contact Jeanette Remington at 946-1190 or email
Worth Waiting For
What is it and what is its purpose?
The “Worth Waiting For” program is an in-center ministry for clients who choose abstinence and purity in their lives. They pledge to protect their future from unnecessary heartbreak, their bodies from disease, and they have expressed a desire to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. TCPN desires to partner with these young women by offering emotional, spiritual, and practical support for their choice to take a stand and say “I am worth waiting for.”
How does it work?
Clients in this program choose physical and spiritual purity and to grow in their relationship and knowledge of Jesus Christ. They live out this choice by committing to do Bible studies (individual or group) with TCPN counselors, watching videos on the subject of purity, good choices, and abstinence, and by attending a local church or youth group. The “Worth Waiting For” program is available at both our Pasco and Richland centers.
Teen Boutique
Our Teen Boutique is specifically designed as an incentive for young women in our Worth Waiting For program. As clients join the WWF program and participate in the various educational opportunities we offer (Bible study, videos, etc.) they earn TCPN dollars (akin to Monopoly money). The ladies are then able to spend their “dollars” at the Teen Boutique. The boutique is located in the upstairs loft of our main Boutique, just adjacent to the Pasco center. We have designed the space to feel like a teen's closet. We have also put in a couch and chairs so that we can hold group studies there as well. The idea is to make our clients feel at home. We want them to feel special by having their own place to shop and we want it to be a fun place to hang out with their friends. The boutique is stocked with everything teen, from designer label clothes, books, and shoes to “girly” things such as jewelry, purses and makeup. The boutique is continually being restocked with new and gently used items that have been generously donated by various individuals, organizations and stores throughout the Tri-Cities.
Girl's 180 Club
Our mission is to come alongside middle school and high school girls with acceptance and encourgement. To teach and model character as the foundation for creating healthy relationships and a bright future.
As an outreach of the Tri-Cities Pregnancy Network's Healthy Relationships Programs, the Girl's 180 Club is a preventative program that encourages young women to abstain from premarital sex in order to avoid potential life-altering consequences. This teen mentoring program utilizes the G.I.F.T. (Giving Insight Friendship and Truth) curriculum.
We realize that there are many relevant and pressing issues that young people face today. Topics covered in the G.I.F.T. curriculum include character, self-worth, self-respect, trust, gossip, same-sex friendships, opposite-sex friendships and relationships, drugs, alcohol, sex, and future goals. We want to help young women realize the decisions they make today can affect their future in positive and negative ways, and offer practical and relevant advice on healthy choices.
Girl's 180 Clubs meet weekly and are designed to fit in a lunch time, study hall period, or after school.
Contact Information
Pasco Center
Phone: 509-544-9329
Address: 817 N 14th St Pasco, WA 99301
Email: info@tcpnetwork.org
Richland Center
Phone : 509- 946-1190
Address: 636 Jadwin Ave, Suite C Richland, WA 99352
Email: info@tcpnetwork.org