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Helping Youth Succeed through Abstinence

Urban Life Training community, college and high school Chapters help youth succeed by providing education, peer counseling and clubs that emphasize the benefits of abstaining from sex before marriage, as well as abstaining from drugs and alcohol.  

Mission Statement

 

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Featured Articles

Is Cohabitation a Good Way to Prepare for Marriage?  Part 2

   Chapter 2 of the Unification Principle is The Human Fall.  Since God created this beautiful ideal of the family, what went wrong?  We know there is this being called Satan, the perpetrator of evil, but where did Satan come from; what was the root of sin?  What is the fall of man?  Christians traditionally say it is some kind of vague fruit, but the Unification Principle says that it is clearly a symbolic fruit, not the fruit of an actual tree.  What would be so tempting that Adam and Eve would be tempted to fall?  Just an apple?  They had plenty to eat.

Is Cohabitation a Good Way to Prepare for Marriage?-Part 1

    An estimated 70% of couples today will cohabit before marrying. Is this a good idea?  As pointed out in an article by Brad Wilcox and Alysse ElHage, Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Joe Alwyn broke up after six years of living together.  Living together before marriage does not help you odds of having a successful marriage.  In fact, it hurts your odds of having a successful marriage.

Stop the Decimation of Our Youth-Part 2



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Start a Club or Chapter

STAR Leadership High School Clubs

bring teens together in a positive environment where they can build friendships, share values, and support one another in choosing abstinence. Mentoring peers using the Urban Life Training education and peer counseling materials is a key activity.

Urban Life Training Community Chapters

facilitate education, peer counseling and STAR Leadership Clubs in local schools, churches or other locations.

Urban Life Training Campus Chapters

help Chapter members suceed by honoring a lifestyle of sexual abstinence before marriage.  The four functions of a campus chapter are peer counseling, educating about the benefits of sexual
abstinence before marriage, fundraising, and advocacy for abstinence-centered health education.

Abstinence Testimonies

I AM ABSTINENCE WORKING

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Brittany: "I am a teen, and I am 19 years old, and I didn’t have the opportunity to have someone, a college student to come to my classroom and teach me what’s right."
Jasmine: "I personally practice abstinence because I look at it as, if I’ve waited 19 years to hold myself and guard my diamond, to be true to myself, nobody is worth me just throwing it away that easily. Like, you have to pay for this, and I don’t mean materialistically, but you have to put in the work.  I’m not just some throw away piece of trash."

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1 in 79

Pregnancies

In 2024, the U.S. teen birth rate was about 12.7 births per 1,000 girls ages 15–19 — about 1 out of every 79 teen girls.

45.5%

STD's

Nearly half of all new STDs in the U.S. occur in young people ages 15–24.

1 in 9

Suicide

About 1 out of 9 sexually active teens reported a suicide attempt, but teens with very early sexual debut faced a risk closer to 1 out of 7.

Our Goals and Values

Empowerment Through Education

To educate youth about the benefits of abstinence in preparation for marriage and to encourage them to adopt a sexually abstinent and drug free lifestyle.

High Moral Values & Peer Support

To encourage youth to exemplify high moral values and to become persons of integrity; especially by providing older students who are sexually abstinent role models

Mentoring Peers

To encourage and train students to be peer counselors who can reach out to students in need of their friendship, encouragement and advice, especially focusing on sexual abstinence before marriage.

Speaking Out for Abstinence

To give youth a forum in the community to speak out on the issue of sexual abstinence.

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Advocacy

Discover articles on abstinence education, abstinence discrimination and vaccine choice.
Make informed choices and stand for what is best for our youth.

Advocate for Success through Abstinence in your local community.  Read helpful articles and learn about practical steps that you can take.

Resolution to present to local Boards of Education

Abstinence Discrimination is the conscious decision to exclude, from school curricula and public discourse, education on the benefits of sexual abstinence before marriage.

Vaccine Choice

Schools must not force children to take vaccines.
Vaccination is a medical intervention. United States law considers vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe”.  All medical interventions must  be freely chosen. 

Read Eight Facts about Forced Vaccination in West Virginia

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Become a Member

Give your child or yourself the tools to make confident, informed choices about their future. Our membership program provides all the tools that you need to teach your child about abstinence, help them to build self-respect, and to develop strong decision-making skills that will guide them for life.

Become a member of Urban Life Training and receive access to the following education materials:
  • Relationship Intelligence Slides, highlighting the many Benefits of Choosing Abstinence

  • Peer Counseling Video Clips and Scripts that help Build Healthy Life Boundaries

  • Presenter Training Recordings

  • STAR Interfaith Leadership Training-10 week program