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 collaborates with local community organizations to develop programming for the youth in Linn County, Iowa, and the surrounding area.

The main objective of Equipping Youth is to persuade adolescents to make healthy choices through character-based abstinence until marriage education.

Equipping Youth provides:

• Character education programs for children and adolescents.
• Coalition building activities to help bring the community together toward common goals for our youth.
• Abstinence until marriage programs.
• Workshops and conferences for community leaders, educators and parents.
• Youth programming through collaborative efforts with other community agencies and organizations whose efforts and goals for our youth are similar.
• Resource library of educational materials with an emphasis on abstinence and character building.