Building Loving & Lasting Families
Adolescent Modules
These workshops address issues in age-appropriate sequence, content and language for the youth, with workshops beginning in the late primary years and continuing to the end of the secondary school years.
1. Who Am I?
2. Things Are Changing Puberty!
3. Adolescent Self Esteem
4. My Family - An Opportunity To Grow
5. The Social Me
6. The Pressures Of Adolescence
7. Decision-Making
8. Pornography : Harmless Fun?
9. Me, Before I Was Born
10. The Art Of Frienship
11. Smart Sexuality I: Understanding And Managing Sexual Pressure
12. Smart Sexuality II: It Is Worthwhile!
Parent Modules
These workshops are aimed at giving parents an updated understanding of the teen issues and practical tools to help them prepare themselves to address these key adolescent issues with their adolescent child through helping their teen develop relevant character strengths.
1. Unscrambling The Teen Puzzle: Understanding My Teen Through 5 Dimensions
2. Adolescent Self Esteem
3. Beyond The Birds And The Bees: Talking To My Teen About Love, Life And Sex
4. Helping Our Children In Self-Mastery
5. Pressures Of Adolescence - Peer Pressure
6. The Art Of Being A Good Friend
7. Pornography : Harmless Fun?
8. It Is Worthwhile!
9. Walking The Talk
The Protect Your Heart Program
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Discovering Needs, Explaining Consequences, Building Character
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Vision - To raise strong characters to live an intelligent sexuality
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Mission - Teenagers capable of cultivating true love, the basis of fulfilment as persons in any circumstances​
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The Protect Your Heart Program is a secular, educational program which focuses on character formation of preteens and teens. It is a flexible, modular programme addressing the major issues of the adolescent years, including adolescent sexuality and draws on the sciences like human anthropology, medicine and psychology, to mention just a few.
It is based on the successful Protégé Tu Corazon (PTC) program which was begun in Mexico in 1993 and is currently taught in more than 1000 educational institutions and 19 countries worldwide.
H.E.A.R.T., is an acronym for the fruits of the successful exercise of one’s sexuality: Happiness • Empowerment • Accountability • Respect • True love
It is directed at adolescents, parents and educators.
Parents are the first and most important educators of their children and this includes the area of their sexuality. Unfortunately, it has been shown time and again that parents often have little communication with their children with regards to subjects related to sexuality.
Since the initiation of PTC in 1993, it became clear that it was crucial to involve parents with the important issues of sexuality that PTC was exploring with their children, and this gave rise to the parent workshops which complement the adolescent sessions.
Through them, parents are informed of the adolescent world, something that can sometimes be very foreign to them, allowing them to comprehend better the needs of their adolescent children. They receive pedagogical tools to prepare themselves for the formation of their children’s character, learning to open a channel of dialogue, to connect better and consequently, to influence their children with practical sense and with optimism about what young people are truly capable of.
Protect Your Heart is the PTC program customized for Singapore.
PTC, has been given in different social-economic and cultural environments in more than 160 cities across 19 countries. Even when differences exist between countries or even within the same city, contemporary adolescents worldwide think and act in a similar fashion in a social climate where access to information of any kind is easier and is expanding at an exponential rate.
The Protect Your Heart program takes into account the local context of the universal problems encountered by young people worldwide and focuses on these with its audience, thus bringing a customized version of the PTC program to Singapore.
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