Statewide Chair Mary McLellan Heritage Community Services Regional Chairs Mariscia Cooper (Pee Dee) Charlie Lybrand (Lowcountry) Lenna Neill (Upstate) Rev. Randy Riddle (Grand Strand) Dr. Roger Rollins (CSRA) Charlotte Valentine-Green (Ace Basin)   Advisory Council Eugene Bacote Sumter School Dist.17 Dr. Vera Bailey Hilton Head Preg. Care Center Pamela Berry Colleton Fire and Rescue Dr. Vonda Calcutt Lowcountry Ctr. Diabetes Sen. Chip Campsen Charleston/Berkeley Rev. Chuck Coward Charleston Outreach Robin Crosby Colleton County Ligure Ellington Ret.Capt. Charleston City Police Dr. Randy Goings Chiropractic Physician Faye Hill Lowcountry Pregnancy Center & SC Association Pregnancy Care Centers WC Hoecke Fatherhood Practioner Leroy Lewis Upward Bound at Cof C Norman L. Moore, Jr. Colonel, USAFR(Ret) Cyndi Mosteller Comm. for Higher Education Alexia Newman Carolina Pregnancy Center Fred Payne Marriage Savers of Upstate Jerry & Barbara Seymour R& R Marriage Min. Ronald Shoupe Colleton County Dr. A. V. Strong A Better Way, Inc. (Gang Out) Dr. Robert Thomas Pulmonary Medicine Pastor Phil Thrailkill St. Luke UMC Hartsville Kelly Walker Upstate Fatherhood Coalition	August 14, 2009   SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   There is only one year left to teach an abstinence-centered message in South Carolina.    Did you know that Heritage Keepers® Abstinence Education offers training, technical assistance and teacher’s manuals FREE of CHARGE throughout the state?    If your church leadership, private or public school teachers, or agency, wants to receive this FREE service, send us a message!     Why Heritage Keepers®?  Only two abstinence education programs across the United States have been found to positively affect behavior, and one is our state’s homegrown initiative, Heritage Keepers® Abstinence Education .     Heritage Keepers® Changes Behavior Extensive behavioral studies indicate that a year after Heritage Keepers® Abstinence Education, program students report initiating sex at a rate 50% (half) that of similar non-program students. These same results have been found among South Carolina program participants in rural, urban and suburban settings across age, gender and race.     Heritage Keepers® Reviewed and Approved In 2008, the federal Office of Adolescent Pregnancy reviewed and approved Heritage Keepers® Abstinence and Life Skills Education curricula for accuracy of medical information and references, and   In 2008, the National Abstinence Clearinghouse reviewed and approved Heritage Keepers® Abstinence and Life Skills Education for compliance with the federal definition of Abstinence Education as has been defined by Title V, Section 510 of the Social Security Act under Welfare Reform.   The Heritage Method It is the process that Heritage Keepers® applies to its program development, training, monitoring and evaluation that consistently produces significant positive results across all segments of student populations. This synergistic cycle assures the on-going quality of programs, as well as continuing improvement in development, training and delivery.     Heritage Keepers® Works in South Carolina! Since the Heritage Keepers® programs began in 1996, state teen pregnancy rates have decreased by 35%. (SC DHEC Biostatistics, 2005 provisional data)     South Carolina Needs Heritage Keepers® Our state is challenged by extraordinary drop-out rates, many of which are attributed to early family formation. South Carolina prisons are filled with young people that were never given the opportunity to learn the life skills provided by the Heritage Keepers® program.     Show Your Support Let us Know….that you support the continuation of Heritage Keepers® Abstinence Education programs in South Carolina.   Let us Know….if  you want to be our SCHFF Coalition Advocate for your church, school, agency or county.      For further study… Abstinence Works! National Abstinence Education Association Concerned Parents Another Voice/Sex Education Your Teaching My Child What? by Dr. Miriam Grossman   Safer Sex Campaign in Boston Planned Parenthood Teaches Abstinence???
	The South Carolina Healthy Family Formation Coalition (SC HFF Coalition) is organized and staffed by Heritage Community Services. The SC HFF Coalition promotes child and family well-being by providing opportunities for statewide communication about such issues as: adolescent pregnancy, unwed childbearing, fatherlessness, sexual exploitation of our youth, dating violence and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, gang activity and youth violence.    Coalition members support healthy family formation initiatives that integrate character-based life skills, teen pregnancy prevention with an emphasis on abstinence-centered education, and the importance of fidelity-within-marriage.   Together we can impact our culture so that forming healthy families becomes a norm, rather than the exception, for South Carolina. Please, forward this E-News to interested friends, family and colleagues and ask them to consider joining the Coalition. Join/Subscribe Unsubscribe PRIVACY POLICY: Information you share will never be sold, rented, or given to any third party. Contact Mary McLellan , Statewide Chairman (843)654-7740 ext.122