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 Darlington School District 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	July 16, 2010 SC Healthy Family Formation Coalition E-News!   Parent Win Again and Again Positive letters and Op Eds are running in favor of an optional abstinence-from-sexual-activity message for all middle and high school students.  Last month, the Charleston County School Board voted (6:3) to keep Heritage Keepers® in the schools.   Parents now have a Real Choice regarding sexual health instruction for their child.  Parents can choose Heritage Keepers®, or Heritage Keepers® plus a ‘Safe Sex’ program. Either way, parents win because they are in charge!   Heritage Keepers®, the only authentic abstinence life skills program approved for the school district, measures success based on a decrease in the initiation of sexual activity or an increase in returning to abstinence.    The majority of ‘Safe Sex’ programs do not measure abstinence.  One can hardly expect ‘Safe Sex’ programs to emphasize abstinence if that is not their main goal.    More than a dozen so-called ‘Safe Sex’ programs have been  approved and are mandatory unless a parent opts their child out. Parents must still ask for and sign consent forms for their child to receive Heritage Keepers®.    Take our 3 question Parental Rights Survey!   OP EDs and Letters Abstinence Works by Al Schirduan, SCHFF member and Vice-Chair of the Health Advisory Committee Teen pregnancy rates drop due to abstinence program by Jerry Raymond, Chief Program Officer for Heritage Keepers®.  Abstinence-only preserved in Charleston schools is written by Greg Hambrick of the Charleston City Paper.  This Op Ed is a bit edgy, not accurate on some important facts, but refreshingly supportive of parents having a choice.       Parents Summer Reading List Check out the following books on the Heritage Keepers® Recommended reading webpage: Dr. Miriam Grossman’s books You’re Teaching My Child What?, Unprotected, and The War on Intimacy by Panzer and Mosack.   Follow the SC-HFF Coalition on Twitter! Join the Heritage Keepers® Facebook Cause
	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