Reducing the Risk

Reducing the Risk (R.T.R.) is an abstinence based curriculum that focuses on avoiding unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases/infections. Health Educators offer RTR to grades 9 – 12 grades. 

Helping youth avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmissible infections is a challenge that faces our communities. Children having children is a problem with dire consequences for both the young people themselves and for society as a whole. Young people with children have sharply reduced education and employment opportunities and a poorer quality of life. Meeting their needs places a severe burden on both families and public resources. Moreover, sexually active teens are at great risk of contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Pre-Teen / Teen Health

• Changes/Personal Hygiene
• Postponing Sexual Involvement (P.S.I.)
• Reducing the Risk
• Worth the Wait