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IAA Fall Meeting

ATTENTION — Directors and Senior Staff!
Save the Dates!
September 20-21, 2009

IAA Fall Meeting

(Follows the FRC 'Value Voters' Conference) 

NO MORE 'Mr. NICE GUY!

Our programs are under fire!
Our funding streams are drying up!
Staying alive will require a united effort,
and a creative focus!

Professional Development and Networking for Senior Level Leaders

IAA Dessert
September 20, 2009 ---  7–9 pm
Henley Park Hotel
REALITY on the Hill
There are a few legislative bright spots!
Valerie Huber, NAEA
 
IAA Fall Meeting
Monday, September 21, 2009
9 am–4 pm
at The Family Research Council Press Room
Topics include
  • Staying Alive: Alternative funding for abstinence organizations
  • National Sex Ed Guidelines: Ours vs. Theirs
  • Staying the Course: We are in a marathon, NOT a sprint!
  • Congressman Lee Terry (invited)
  • The Naked Truth about Comprehensive Sex Education
  • We will also be electing new officers, and  will provide ample time for networking and sharing ideas.
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    We Hope To See You There!!
    COST (Includes Sunday dessert, Monday meeting with lunch):
    $50.00 total per IAA Member  
    $75.00 for non-members
    CEU credits available
    MEETING REGISTRATION FORM AND IAA MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION ARE ATTACHED
    Dues are $100/year/Organization—Renewals are due in January.
    New Applications will be presented and voted on at the meeting.
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    Hotel–Make your own reservations.
    (Ask for the IAA rate of $139/night.
    This rate good until August 30.)
    http://www.henleypark.com/
    The Henley Park Hotel
    926 Massachusetts Ave NW | Washington D.C. 20001
    202-638-5200 | 800-222-8474
    Please contact Lois Theis at loishome@onlinezenda.net to make your reservation or Sharon Hedegard for more information (hedegard@msn.com)

    About IAA

    The International Abstinence Association (IAA) exists to connect and equip leaders in the field of primary prevention, optimizing whole person health outcomes in adolescents.

    The IAA equips, empowers and encourages members to proactively promote common primary prevention strategies to enhance abstinence education worldwide. The IAA increases access to and quality of primary prevention health education programs for the purpose of improving whole person health. This goal is accomplished through the following objectives:

    Objective 1. Offer opportunities for educators to increase personal development and programmatic capacity

    Objective 2. Establish programmatic delivery standards for optimal success of program participants in the following areas:

    • enhance parent/child communication skills
    • improve student interpersonal relationship skills, including establishing and communicating personal boundaries
    • develop skills to refuse unwanted pressure
    • increase personal developmental assets
    • increase future orientation (hope for a good future)
    • reduce unhealthy risk-taking behaviors, including pre-marital sex, drugs, alcohol and violence
    • decrease out-of-wedlock births, sexually transmitted infections and depression among young people

    Objective 3. Establish and disseminate standard industry language for optimal communication between and among providers and outside interests

    Objective 4. Promote healthy, stable family formation