Texas Power2wait Program

Power2wait is an abstinence-centered education program designed to offer guidance to school districts, communities, and parents to reduce the need for future family planning services for unwed minors.  Power2wait offers free tool kits for school districts and community groups with interactive CD-ROM and card games for grades 4th – 12th to supplement current sex education curricula.  Power2wait also targets parents to talk to their kids about sex with the power2talk.org and poderdehablar.org websites that assist parents in communication with their child.  Both sites link into the sister site for students, power2wait.com, which features interactive learning video games for students’ grade 2nd – 12th.

Program Goals:

• Decrease teen birth rate
• Decrease teen rate of sexually transmitted infections
• Decrease teen abortion rate
• Decrease teen drop out rate
• Increase teen interest in future orientation

Program Strategies:

• Provide educational resources to parents, students, schools and communities through www.power2wait.com, www.power2talk.org and www.poderdehablar.org as well as Power2wait tool kits that include interactive games available for school districts and community groups to utilize to supplement sex education curricula.

• Assist local planning consortiums whose mission is to prevent teen pregnancy.  These regional consortiums will assist in creating community infrastructure to apply for funding opportunities to address teen pregnancy.
  
  
• Coordinate the Texas Youth Leadership Clubs by providing training and guidance for youth leadership clubs including the use of curricula, communication via a bi-monthly news letter, Texas Youth Leadership Club member T-shirts, and an annual Youth Leadership Summit.
  
  
• Continue Education Service Center programming for abstinence education activities, including workshops and awareness presentations available through regional Education Service Centers.

Last Updated September 1, 2009