WELCOME TO WAIT TRAINING

OUR GOAL IS:

Poverty Prevention Through Healthy Family Formation

Managing Grants From:

• Healthy Marriage Project

• Promoting Responsible Fatherhood

• Community Based Abstinence Education

• Centers For Disease Control And Health Promotion

• Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF)

We are excited to share our new resources, strategies and tools with you and your community. In an effort to serve our colleagues better, we have been working to make WAIT Training work for you and all of your needs.

For those of you impacting the culture of youth in America, we have created several sites to help you achieve your goals.

• www.waittraining.org provides you with a general look at all issues that impact the life of relationships throughout  the culture.
• Why-abstinence.org is our site dedicated to training and curriculum. Here you will find the resources you have used throughout the years. In addition, this site hosts WAIT TV, an interactive video site that provides and insight into our organization.
• marry-well.org is our site to enhance marriages throughout Colorado.
• coloradoabstinence.org is for people in Colorado looking for training from WAIT Training.
  
  
  Healthy Relationships are Possible
  
  Relationships are the very essence of our being. From the moment we
  take our first breath, to the second we breathe our last, our lives
  are spent pursuing the security, fulfillment and passion that comes
  from a deeply held connection with another.
  
  Intimate relationships are the stuff dreams are made of. In today's
  chaotic world of instant gratification and floundering commitment,
  however, healthy relationships are becoming extremely difficult to
  develop and maintain. Our culture is losing its belief in the
  institution of marriage and its value for waiting for something good.

              Personal power and self regulation skills are essential to be able to make  

              healthy and intentional decisions.

             WAIT Training resources are data driven and are developed with the best of what   

             science has to offer regarding what makes relationships work and what makes them                   fail. It is our hope that we can ignite change and revolutionize relationships through our

             trainings, seminars, speakers and resources.

             Through abstinence education, relationship skills training, innovative
             curricula and leadership development, WAIT Training is working to
             usher in a whole new era of revitalized relationships. The change has
             already begun. We hope you will join us in our efforts.

So...how do we do all this??

We offer certification in the WAIT Training Curriculum which teaches middle school and high school students:

• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Character development
• Alcohol and drug prevention strategies
• Decision making
• Conflict resolution
• Learning about yourself and others
• Safe dating strategies
• Conflict resolution and problem solving
• Media literacy
• Value of commitment and marriage
• Personal power and self regulation
• The science of healthy relationships
• Prevention of pregnancy and Sexually transmitted disease
• The value of doing better when you know better
• The value of starting over
• Family formation skills
• Learning your love language
• Marriage preparation education
• Partner selection strategies
• Ways to connect and communicate with parents
• Positive youth development and assets
• Impulse control
• Boundary setting
• Teen brain development
• Assertiveness training
• Negotiation skills
• Managing peer pressure
• Life mapping and future orientation

In our marriage education workshops we teach:

• Foundations of a loving healthy relationship
• Words of the heart
• Keeping fun alive
• The keys of effective communication
• Creative problem solving
• Resolving conflict
• Sharing, caring and dating
• Setting priorities
• Developing marriage traditions
• Love styles
• Managing pressures of parenthood
• Spicing it up!

                                      Come join the fun!

We also offer:

• Community mobilization workshops
• Capacity building workshops for youth serving agencies
• Technical assistance workshops
• All school assemblies
• Parent workshops
• "Look before You Leap" IMAX type 3 screen film for schools
• Strategic planning workshops
• Sexual Cessation trainings  for working with sexually active youth
• Curricula and resources