What do we do?

Equipping Youth is a non-profit organization committed to promoting character education through our Powerful Choices abstinence program for youth and their families. Equipping Youth collaborated with local community schools and organizations to develop programming for youth in Eastern Iowa.

The main objective of Equipping Youth is to encourage adolescents to make healthy choices through character-based risk avoidance education.

Equipping Youth provides:

• Powerful Choices curriculum and training in teaching this innovative program
• Character education programs for children and adolescents
• Coalition building activities to help facilitate communities  to find their common goals for their youth and to meet the challenges of their youth with positive youth development programs
• Abstinence until marriage programs
• Workshops and conferences for community leaders, educators and parents
• Youth programming in collaborative efforts with other community agencies and organizations
• Educational materials and resources