Two bills passed by Congress this month give teens greater access to Sexual Risk Avoidance abstinence education.
The first bill not only restored funding for the Title V grant program but also increased funding for abstinence education. The second bill passed is the Healthy Relationships Act of 2015, calling for medically accurate, evidence-based abstinence education.
Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association tells OneNewsNow the passage of these bills is great news. “This is a huge victory,” she says. “And, in fact, it’s the first time that we have seen an increase in this program since it was started in 1996.”
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