"I am confident this program has made a difference in the many young lives it has touched." |
[The Truth for Youth Retreat] showed that I am not alone...[the team inspired me] because they go forward from their past showing no shame. |
For YouthEmbrace a Whole Person Identity
Make Positive Choices 
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For FamiliesDevelop Healthy Relationships
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For CommunitiesGrow Strong Families and Communities
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Truth for Youth Programs |
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Pure & Simple Truth for Youth, Inc.’s story begins in 1997 when Dr. Ruth Taylor, along with Mary Easterday, M.Ed. and Lois Theis, R.N., BSN, founded Abstinence Education Consultants, Inc. The organization primarily provided abstinence education training to teachers for college credit, conducted classroom and after school programs, and participated in community events.
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In 2003, the organization received a five-year renewable State Title V Abstinence Grant. In 2004 Abstinence Education Consultants Inc., changed its name to Abstinence Education Inc., and then to Pure & Simple Health Education, Inc. in 2010. The Title V grant, along with subsequent federal and state grants and in-kind donations, funded the creation and ongoing development of the Pure & Simple Choice curricula, a positive choices and risk-elimination program geared toward boys and girls ages 10-17 and their families.
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In 2014, the Wichita Catholic Diocese awarded an Nihil Obstat//Imprimatur for the Pure & Simple Choice VIRTUE curricula.
Recently, the organization re-branded to Truth for Youth, Inc. and maintains its primary focus on sharing the truth about whole-person identity, healthy relationships, and sexual integrity with youth, families and communities through peer-to-peer mentoring retreats, dynamic speakers, and resources for equipping parents to have real conversations with their children. |