Our Programs

The SMART Program

SMART is a sexual risk avoidance program that delivers medically accurate, evidence-based messages to youth in public and private schools, community organizations/workshops, churches, and youth groups. SMART delivers a message of hope to youth in a culture where teen sex is normalized and the serious consequences are often trivialized. Our goal is to educate, equip, and empower youth to make positive physical and emotional choices within relationships, and to achieve their personal goals.

Shrinking The Elephant

This Parent Information Session is a 30-minute live presentation designed to equip parents with the knowledge and resources they need to support their child's participation in sexual health education. Join us as we introduce Ready Set ASPIRE, share important information about sexual health education standards Michigan, and provide an overview of our SMART program curriculum. We will summarize the topics covered in our 5-lesson program and offer tips and advice for having conversations ("The Talk") about these subjects with your kids. To ask a question or be added to the invite list for our next session, click the link below.

Guidelines and Considerations

Our programs are designed to be supplemental programming in public and private schools in accordance with the Michigan Guidelines for Guest Speakers. We also partner with community organizations like churches, youth groups, and clubs to provide relationship education.

Our goal is to increase knowledge, build confidence, establish and strengthen the choice to set physical limits, and help each student recognize the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships with age-appropriate and medically accurate information. We employ a primary prevention health model to our programming as well as share information that encourages tertiary and secondary prevention where applicable. We engage students by encouraging them through coaching based learning, personal stories, and sharing tools and skills to navigate their own choices and decision-making while helping each student consider the benefits of sexual delay and risk avoidance. We also encourage students to speak with their parents/guardians and and/or a trusted adult to help strengthen their relationships and keep open lines of communication around these important issues.

As we have expanded our programming base, we continue to share the benefits of sexual delay and risk avoidance as strategies for obtaining optimal health. As of 2020 our online and in person programming puts an even larger emphasis on the social, emotional, and mental aspects of healthy relationships with oneself and others. Our focus is to provide practical information and tools to help all individuals cultivate healthy relationships, make positive choices, and purpose to become the people they ASPIRE to be. Our message is for youth ages 12 and up of all races, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultures. We believe that all individuals not only deserve, but can have healthy relationships with themselves and others.

Scope of Topics

• Optimal health

• Sexual delay

• Risk avoidance

• Sexual risk avoidance

• Sexual risk reduction

• Goal setting

• Personal Commitments

• Positive choices

• Healthy vs unhealthy relationships

• Childhood sexual abuse prevention and awareness

• Social emotional learning (The Core Project Curriculum and Activities)

• The Success Sequence

• Boundary setting

• Refusal and cessation skills

• Stopping and starting over

• Positive connections

• Youth and trusted adult (i.e. parent/guardians/mentors/counselors) relationships

• Creating a culture of respect

  This is not an exhaustive list as we are always looking for mission-centered ways to educate, equip, and empower individuals to make positive choices and have healthy relationships.