6. YOUR HEADLINE HERE

9. ARTICLE 12. Dioceses/eparchies are to maintain
―safe environment‖ programs which the
diocesan/eparchial bishop deems to be in accord
with Catholic moral principles. They are to be
conducted cooperatively with parents, civil
authorities, educators, and community organizations
to provide education and training for children,
youth, parents, ministers, educators, volunteers,
and others about ways to make and maintain a safe
environment for children and young people.

11. CORE VALUE
Subsidiarity

12. CORE VALUE
Equipping
Parents to
have
conversations
with their teens

13. CORE VALUE
Child Protection
information for
adolescents
should not occur in
a vacuum distinct
from Catechesis
for Human
Sexuality.

14. Benedict CORE VALUE
on Message
When you have so little time you can't say
everything you want to say about quot;no.quot; Firstly
you have to know what we really want, right?
Christianity, Catholicism, isn't a collection of
prohibitions: it's a positive option. It's very
important that we look at it again because this
idea has almost completely disappeared today.
We've heard so much about what is not allowed
that now it's time to say: we have a positive idea
that now it's time to say: positive
to offer.
idea to offer.

15. CORE VALUE
Adaptability

16. CORE VALUE
Our Theology
related to
Human
Sexuality is a
wondrous full-
course meal

17. CORE VALUE
Our Theology
related to
Human
Sexuality is a
wondrous full-
course meal;
CTL is just a
taste

19. Parent
Session

20. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Parents are the primary educators of their children
but share in a partnership with the Church, which
provides support, education and encouragement in
this task.
• Human interaction is an opportunity for holiness.
Parent • There are four characteristics that describe the
fullness of love and the intention of marital love.
Session Love is free, full, faithful, and fruitful.
• Human life is to be respected. We have a
responsibility to speak out against violations of the
dignity of the human person, to defend and to
educate young people about such violations.

21. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships

22. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Human life is a gift from God.
• God loves us and intends for us to reflect that love
to one another through healthy relationships and
expressions of love which show respect for
ourselves, one another, and God’s will for our lives.
Healthy • Unfortunately, there are times when others violate
the dignity of another human person. When this
Relationships happens, it is not the survivor’s fault. The dignity of
the human person is not diminished by having
experienced rape or abuse.

23. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships
Decision
Making

24. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• God gave each of us the freedom to make
decisions for ourselves.
• God’s love is unconditional, complete, consistent
and generous. It is a model of the love that we
should offer to one another.
Decision • Love can be exploited and twisted to become
controlling, manipulative, and limiting—not at all the
Making generous gift that God intends for it to be. We must
make decisions that reflect love as God intends it to
be—not the shallow, shadow of love to which
humans reduce it.
• Healthy relationships have boundaries that respect
the dignity of each person involved.

25. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Parents and young people should develop a plan
and role play how the young person can ask for
immediate assistance if they are in a dangerous
and/or uncomfortable situation.
• Marriage is a sacrament. Within the context of
marriage, sexual intercourse is not merely a
Decision physical act for one’s pleasure but is the outward
Making sign (for the married couple) of the inward grace
(God’s love for them).

26. Option One - Three •Week One – Parent Session
consecutive weeks, one •Week Two – MS and Parent Healthy
night a week Relationships
•Week Three – MS and Parent Decision Making
Option Two - One Day •First Morning Session: Parent Session – MS
Retreat for Parents and youth do icebreakers and possibly service
Middle School
MS Youth program
•Second Morning Session: MS and Parents
Healthy Relationships
•Lunch
•Afternoon Session: MS and Parent Decision
Making
Option Three – Parent •Weekday Evening – Parent Session
Meeting separate and then •Then MS Healthy Relationships and MS
morning with middle Decision Making sessions provided for parents
school students and MS youth in one large block
Option Four – Parent •Parent Meeting for all Middle School Parents
Meeting for all of Middle •Parents and 7th grade do Healthy Relationships
School, separate 7th and •Parents and 8th grade do Decision Making
8th grade sessions •(Could happen for both grades in one evening)

28. Parent
Session

29. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Parents are the primary educators of their children
but share in a partnership with the Church, which
provides support, education and encouragement in
this task.
• Human interaction is an opportunity for holiness.
• There are four characteristics that describe the
fullness of love and the intention of marital love.
Love is free, full, faithful, and fruitful.
Parent
• Human life is to be respected. We have a Session
responsibility to speak out against violations of the
dignity of the human person, to defend and to
educate young people about such violations.

30. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships

31. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• All relationships are an opportunity to experience
the love of God through that relationship
• There is a clear difference between a healthy
relationship and an unhealthy relationship.
• Unhealthy relationships include relationships where
there is an imbalance of the relationship in age,
power, and/ or violence.
Healthy
– Relationships of a sexual nature that involve
adults and teens are unhealthy as they exhibit Relationships
the characteristics of an imbalanced
relationship and are against social,
developmental, moral, and legal mores.

32. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Healthy Relationships foster appropriate sharing of
information, respect for boundaries, concern for
safety, striving for equality, empathy, nurturing, and
expression of feelings.
• The media often conditions us to understand that
sex and violence are in the same category. Yet,
sexuality is meant to connect us while violence
violates and devalues the other. Healthy
• Participants will have a clear understanding of their Relationships
right to say ―No.‖

33. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships
Decision
Making

34. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• All decisions have consequences. Sometimes
these are positive and other times they are
negative.
• Decisions that we make impact others around us,
not just ourselves.
• We can turn to God for guidance in making
decisions. Parents and/or other trusted adults can
also help us. Decision
• Participants will work through a process of Making
consulting others, adults, and God along with their
own personal discernment devices.
• Participants will develop accountability
partnerships.

35. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships
Decision
Making
Abstinence

36. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Sexuality is more than just sexual behaviors; it is
part of who we are from birth.
• Chastity promotes the full integration of sexuality
within the person, in accord with their lifestyle—
married, single, professed religious, or consecrated
celibate.
• Chastity promotes abstention from immoral sexual
activity.
Abstinence
• Although it is tempting to reduce sex to a series of
behaviors made for pleasure, God intended it to be
much more—an act of intimacy, love, and trust
between husband and wife for the purpose of union
and procreation.

37. Parent
Session
Healthy
Relationships
Decision
Making
Abstinence
Sacramentality
of Marriage

38. Learning Objectives
During this presentation it is essential to communicate
the following:
• Marriage is a Sacrament through which God’s
grace perfects the human love of spouses,
strengthens their unity and sanctifies them.
• Sexual intercourse can and should be the outward
sign (for the married couple) of the inward grace
(God’s love for them) of the sacrament.
• Marriage is based on the free consent of the
husband and wife, who willingly give themselves to
Sacramentality
one another in order to live a covenant of faithful of Marriage
and fruitful love.
Their intention is to have a permanent union and to
be open to the gift of children.

39. Option One - One •(optional) Parent Meeting for all High School
Day Retreat (Offered Parents
every two years – not •Morning - Healthy Relationships and
an option for schools) Decision Making
•Afternoon - Abstinence and Sacramentality
of Marriage
Senior High
Option Two – Two • (optional) Parent Meeting for all High School
lessons – combining Parents
two grades (every two • 9th and 10th Grade Healthy Relationships
years) and Decision Making
•11th and 12th Grade Abstinence and
Sacramentality of Marriage
Option Three – One •(optional) Parent Meeting for all High School
lesson plan per grade Parents
per year • 9th Grade Healthy Relationships,
•10th Grade Decision Making
•11th Grade Abstinence
•12th Grade Sacramentality of Marriage

40. Created to
Question…?

42. God calls everyone to holiness. He has very
precise plans for each person, a personal
vocation which each must recognize, accept
and develop. To all Christians — priests, laity,
married people or celibates — the words of the
Apostle of the Nations apply: quot;God's chosen
ones, holy and belovedquot; (Colossians 3:12).
THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY
THE TRUTH AND MEANING
OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
Excerpt from the Guidelines for Education within the Family
on Puberty and Adolescence