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Operation Keepsake, Inc.,
10568 Ravenna Rd. Ste.9
Twinsburg, Ohio 44087
Ph: 330.486.0602;
Fax: 330.486.0612.
Website: www.operationkeepsake.com
E-mail: ok@operationkeepsake.com
OPERATION KEEPSAKE
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OPERATION KEEPSAKE
The mission of Operation Keepsake, Inc. is to challenge young people to develop healthy relationships, strong character, and sexual restraint so that they may build and sustain committed marriages and strong families in the future.
Operation Keepsake, Inc. provides educational programming in over 150 schools in the northeast region of Ohio. The program promotes the development of true intimacy with another person within the parameters of a healthy marital relationship. Human sexuality is discussed in a holistic manner. This type of approach encourages students to develop strong character traits, to become other-centered as opposed to self-centered, and to acknowledge that their decisions not only affect their own lives, but the lives of those around them.
Operation Keepsake, Inc.’s For Keeps curriculum underwent an independent evaluation by the Center for Health Promotion at Case Western Reserve University with Elaine Borawski, Ph. D. The evaluation was published in the American Journal of Health Behavior in September 2005. It was one of the first empirical studies published on abstinence until marriage programs. The objective of the study was to examine the effectiveness of abstinence until marriage curriculum on knowledge, beliefs, efficacy, intentions, and behavior.
The study was a nonrandomized control trial involving 2,069 middle school students with a 5-month follow-up in 2 suburban and 5 urban schools in Cleveland, Ohio. 73% of the students were African American, 19% White, and 8% other. The results included an increase for all students–both sexually experienced and inexperienced–in abstinence beliefs, knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other STIs, and decreased intentions to have sex in the future. The sexually experienced students who had sex during the intervention reported fewer sexual episodes and fewer partners.
