FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005
Contact: Jane Norris
(202) 401-9215
ACF Awards $37 Million to Abstinence Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) today announced the award of $37 million to 63 abstinence education grantees. The awards, from the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program, are designed to encourage youth to remain abstinent until marriage.
“The only way to be 100 percent certain that kids avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases is to stay abstinent until marriage,” said HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade F. Horn, Ph.D. “By focusing on this clear message, the Bush Administration is ensuring youth have the information they need to make the healthiest decision.”
The CBAE program is administered by ACF’s Family and Youth Services Bureau, which also administers the Title V Section 510 Abstinence Education Program to enable states to support abstinence education, mentoring, counseling and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual activity, with a focus on those groups which are most likely to bear children out of wedlock.
Through the leadership of President Bush, Congress authorized historic increases to support abstinence education during the past four years.
Today’s awards include the following:
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$645,642 for three years to the Charlottesville Pregnancy Center, the first CBAE grantee in Virginia;
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$617,516 for three years to Professional Counseling Resources, Inc. of Wilmington, the first CBAE grantee in Delaware;
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$371,358 for three years to Pregnancy Counseling Center of Reno, the first CBAE grantee in Nevada;
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$770,800 and $652,468, for three years, respectively to Abstinence Education, Inc., of Wichita and Haven Center, Inc. of Kansas City, the first CBAE grantees in Kansas;
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$690,840 for three years to Educational Guidance Institute of Front Royal, Virginia, which serves Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia and Prince George’s County, Maryland. This is the first CBAE grantee serving Maryland.
To view a complete list of today’s grants, visit www.acf.hhs.gov/news/press/2005/cbae_amount.htm.
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