The Abstinence Education: Training and Resources program provides education, trainings, tools and resources to 10 Hispanic community and faith-based organizations working with young people ages 12-18 in the cities of Philadelphia, Allentown, Bethlehem, Reading and Lancaster, Pennsylvania to increase their capacity to provide abstinence education programs in their respective areas of service.

The objectives of the program are:

• to educate community and faith-based organizations about the importance and benefits of abstinence education;
• to increase the capacity of participating organizations to offer abstinence education programs by providing trainings and/or seminars to develop or expand abstinence programs in their respective communities;
• and provide curriculum resources and training to community and faith-based organizations to implement their own abstinence education program.

These organizations will gain the knowledge and resources to position themselves to provide abstinence education in their organizations and will begin to impact their communities with the abstinence until marriage message.