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WAIT Training collaborates with numerous organizations and programs to mobilize communities and enhance the welfare of young people and families alike. Such partnerships include:
• Youth development programs
• Health departments
• School districts
• Welfare programs
• Pregnancy prevention
• Crisis pregnancy centers
• Character education programs
• Safe and stable family initiatives
• Teen health clinics
• Poverty prevention programs
• Crime prevention projects
• Juvenile justice programs
• Homeless and runaway youth centers
• Alternative learning centers
• Medical foundations
• Primary prevention initiatives
• Fatherhood initiatives
• Health and human services providers
• STD/HIV testing centers
• Community and faith-based organizations
COLORADO HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROJECT (visit www.marry-well.org)
The WAIT Training Colorado Healthy Marriage Project (CHMP) is a 5-year, statewide initiative, and leverages the experience, resources, leadership, motivation and passion of a diverse group of community organizations and leaders in an unprecedented coalition to benefit healthy marriages in Colorado. As the lead agency, WAIT Training will provide leadership to this coalition, whose partners and support network include African American and Hispanic organizations, religious congregations, the Colorado Department of Human Services, local wellness and health organizations, marriage researchers, school districts and faith/community-based youth serving agencies. The Colorado Healthy Marriage Project coordinates and synergizes the energies, resources and competencies of these partners to deliver comprehensive, research based healthy marriage services (initially in Denver and subsequently expanding to statewide implementation).
Colorado Community Based Abstinence Education Program (visit www.cbae.org)
During this five year federally funded program WAIT Training will be using a Community Saturation Model, which provides engaging all the community stakeholders and building capacity. Our goal is to train and educate all individuals directly and indirectly involved in the lives of our youth to help in communicating the optimal health message. We will providing 2 day certification training for individuals that will work directly with the youth. We will education parents on the issues their kids are facing as well as opportunities for them to have healthy conversations with their children and how WAIT training provides specific skill training that practically gives their children the ability to move from the negative toward the positive. We will implement community mobilizations that empower businesses, local stores, supermarkets, gas stations, restaurants and any other establishment that has a chance to post a positive message to encourage our kids to make the best decisions for the future. As well as work with the medical professional and those working with youth that are currently sexual active to teach a way to gradually move them toward an abstinence lifestyle that promotes the future goals and dreams.
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