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Parent Partnerships

December 14, 2017

Let's talk about engaging parents in your SRA program. Getting parents' attention is hard! We all know that there are a million things vying for our attention and time. It can be a major challenge to engage parents in discussions regarding their child and sex. If you feel challenged in...

Poverty Prevention and Success Sequence for Millennials

November 14, 2017

Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs focus on preventing the well-documented factors that lead to poverty and offer practical and effective solutions for addressing this persistent societal concern. The SRA approach focuses on prevention, with solution-oriented approaches that address causes rather than effects.1 It Works Regardless of Race and Socioeconomic...

What is DOTH?

November 11, 2017

What is DOTH? An annual event hosted by Ascend for youth to help raise awareness and educate Congress on SRA education. Youth from across the nation will be coming to Capitol Hill to meet with their Members of Congress to share what Sexual Risk Avoidance education means to them and...

News

The Weekly Update: April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018

Cohabitation and Unmarried Family Life - What's the Big Deal? When Hollywood celebrity Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson announced that he and his girlfriend were expecting their second child outside of marriage, few people even skipped a beat. While cohabitation was frowned upon in the age of Leave It to Beaver, today...

The Update: April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018

The Hook-Up Culture: Can Sex Really Be Casual? "We’re in the middle of a cultural sexual crisis that exists because we’ve told ourselves that sex can be casual." The idea that casual sex should be good for everyone gained significant traction in the 1960s. The hook-up culture is the practical application...

The Update: April 5, 2018

April 5, 2018

Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Grant Program Has Important New Changes The Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Grant Program, the state block grant that provides funding for the implementation of SRA education, will carry important new changes. Reauthorized by Congress with bipartisan support, the changes will expand the reach...

Testimonials

This training will give me more confidence and greater credibility when I present the SRA message!

I wish everyone in our organization could attend these trainings. I thought I knew a lot about SRA education before the training, but I didn't. I feel so much more prepared as a result of the SRAS training.

[SRAS training] has broadened our audience and ability to share what we do.

Because of the training I received on research and grants I was able to speak intelligently about what needed to take place in our classrooms to meet grant requirements for the classes and our volunteers!

It makes our job easier knowing that we are backed and led by a reputable group promoting the truth and facts of abstinence education. [Ascend] is for students, for sexual educators; because it is the facts-not opinion. We get to rest in the truth that the research speaks for itself.

It was uplifting knowing we have such a rich and powerful force (Ascend) supporting and equipping us and working so hard in DC for the good and the health of our nation’s youth.

The information that was received [from the SRAS training] fell on good ground and I am so ecstatic to share with our youth, parents and community members…. Sexual Risk Avoidance is not a well kept secret anymore and I have plans to move our community to embrace their optimal health. I’m grateful to have such strong leaders to look to.