The www.whoschoosing.org.uk web site has been produced by Love
for Life to support its work in post-primary schools across
Northern Ireland.
What does Love for Life do?
Love for Life
delivers
training and personal development programmes in primary and
post-primary settings and to youth and their parents or carers in
community and church settings.
Love for Life
programmes provide information, advice and support with regard to
issues pertinent to relationships and sexuality education and other
risk taking behaviours, which include alcohol, nicotine and illicit
drug use.
Love for Life
aims to support its various programmes by offering training,
producing resources, influencing policy and carrying out research
that will act together to increase the long-term effectiveness of
the project.
Value Statement of Love
for Life
Love for Life
work is founded on a Christian model of values and seeks to
demonstrate these values through social action. All Love
for Life work is underpinned with an acceptance of each
individual as being incredibly unique and special irrespective of
what choices they make in any area of their lives.
Vision Statement of Love for Life
To influence change within society so that young people have a
healthy respect for themselves, relationships and sex.
Aims of Love for Life
- To inform and support young people and all those caring for
them.
- To empower them to make healthy choices regarding
relationships, sex and other "risk taking" behaviours.
- To challenge them to commit to ongoing personal development.
Objectives of Love for Life
- Create community change towards the Love for Life
vision.
- Develop and deliver programmes to young people and those
caring for them in community and church settings.
- Be a training, resource and research provider in the area of
relationships and sexuality education.
- Promote the "Catalyst" vision "that underage
young people are nicotine, alcohol, drug and sex free".
- Establish co-operative relationships with other statutory,
voluntary and church agencies.
- Work within a personal development model of "information
giving, attitude and value formation and skill
development".
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