- To build a consensus for abstinence education within the foster
care community.
- To increase knowledge and skills
of teachers, staff, parents, and foster parents and childcare workers in promoting
and teaching abstinence until marriage.
3. To increase the percentage
of foster care children in the Options Consortium who complete the Options program
and achieve the following goals: knowledge that abstinence is the only sure way
of preventing STDs and pregnancy; understanding of the social, psychological,
and health gains of abstinence; refusal and assertiveness skills; commitment to
abstain from sexual activity until marriage, and intentions to avoid drug and
substance abuse.
