Worth The Wait Launches Abstinence Blog
Northern Nevada‘s leading abstinence education provider, Worth The Wait (WTW) has launched an online forum for young people to connect, communicate and inspire one another as a way to stay abstinent until marriage. According to WTW‘s Executive Director, Mechele LaBrie, this new online resource is the first of its kind. On this subject. “Most teenagers or ‘screenagers’ hang out on the web, so it is only appropriate that we reach out to them where they are hang out to provide a positive message of encouragement on relationships,” the Executive Director said recently in Reno.
The coming of blog.wtwnv.com blog is a new dimension to existing resources aimed at supporting young people in making and keeping good choices in life. WTW is uploading positive messages, stories, videos and statistics about relationships on how young people can lead more productive lives that are free from drugs, alcohol and pre-marital sex.
“In a world full of negative messages, young people need to connect and relate to others who share their view point on issues like abstinence,” Mrs LaBrie added.
Observers believe that an online blog is certainly a very affordable point of contact for the Milenials or Mosaic generation because they spend a significant amount of their time facing the online on the Internet which is both an affordable and a convenient converging point for teenagers and young people.
As part of its activities in 2007, Worth the Wait presented relationship seminars to over 13,000 students. In recent presentations, WTW found out that almost 70% of middles school students and 50% of high school students say that they will wait until marriage to have sex. WTW believes that the new blog will extend the reach of the program to more students and also re-enforce the message of abstinence to those who have benefited from it before.
Worth The Wait
The Mission of Worth The Wait is to equip individuals with strategies to cultivate healthy relationships, with an emphasis on honoring marriage and reserving sexual expression for the marriage relationship.
Contact:
Joey Francis
Program Specialist
Media Outreach Programs
Tel: 775 826 8886
URL: www.wtwnv.com
