The Institute for Relationship Intelligence reaches thousands of teens each year in urban & suburban areas of NJ/PA and other states with messages of healthy relationships, self-leadership and service to others.
In the last decade, I.R.I. has reached more than 130,000 youth, helping them to focus on achieving their future dreams and avoiding the traps that could endanger their lives and goals!
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Recent Articles
Review of “Comprehensive” School-Based Sex Ed Finds INCREASES in Sexual Activity
A global research review of school-based “comprehensive sex education” programs that emphasize condom use and use of contraceptives as primary strategies recommended to youth found very little effectiveness from these programs and instead found increased sexual activity.
The review, conducted by the Institute for Research & Evaluation and published in the Institute of Law and Medicine in January, examined 60 studies of 40 school-based comprehensive sex education programs in the U.S. as well as 43 studies of 39 programs in other countries.
The review found “little evidence that [comprehensive sex education] programs are effective at producing positive impact on their participants” and […]
They were young. They thought they had time. Then they nearly died of liver disease.
Editor’s Note: According to the National Institutes of Health, 9 out of 10 adults who are alcoholic or alcohol dependent STARTED DRINKING AT AGE 20 OR YOUNGER, AS TEENAGERS.
By Shari Rudavsky (IndyStar)
INDIANAPOLIS – Although Rachel Martin would never deny she had a drinking problem, she figured years would pass before it would take a toll on her health. After all, she had not yet hit 40 and she had managed to eke out two years of complete sobriety about a decade ago.
Even when she was drinking, she would hit the bottle hard […]
