Graduates, Family & Friends-04-14-13  View the slide show on Flickr

Five parents half a dozen youth and a dozen friends and relatives celebrated the successful completion of STAR Interfaith Leadership training by participating youths.  The ten week leadership training program concluded with a Celebration of Purity on April 14th, 2013 at the Emergence Community Arts Collective in Northwest Washington, DC.
The purpose of STAR Interfaith Leadership training is to raise youth to be leaders who are confident in their decision to remain sexually abstinent before marriage.  STAR Guide Francoise Ngue commented “What I like about the program is that God is for it.  You cannot go wrong if it’s God's will.  When you are not married you belong to God.  When you are married you belong to your spouse.  It goes with God's will.  I like the ring exchange.  When you wear it, it is a constant reminder that you cannot just go ahead.  I wish you had more kids participating.” (Register Now).  Youth learn about risk avoidance, goal setting, HIV prevention, and preparing for successful family life.  Assertiveness techniques are modeled and practiced.  Participants also get a basic understanding of spiritual growth, a deeper understanding of the Fall of Man, and insight into living a meaningful life. Read More.

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Announcing the Right Choices Youth Prevention Corps

Supporter and parent Barbara Payne, Board member Yvonne Mckie, and Co-founders Richard & Stacey Urban met with Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on May 2, 2013 to propose formation and funding of a Right Choices Youth Prevention Corps in Washington, DC.  Chairman Mendelson was noncommittal, telling us that we should build more support from the Executive side, such as other Councilmembers or Public School officials.  Below is the text of the proposal.  Please let us know what you think by posting your comments.

Reducing Poverty by promoting Sexual Abstinence:
Outline for a Right Choices Youth Prevention Corps> Read More

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Board-A-Thon Continues-Is Board Service for You?

Do you have a passion for the mission of Urban Life Training? Our mission is

to raise youth leaders to develop good character and to model and teach about the benefits of sexual abstinence, in preparation for marriage and successful family formation?

If so, please consider joining the Urban Life Training Board. Basic requirements of Board service are:

• Attend every other month Board meetings.
• Contribute at least $10 per month.
• Participate on a Board committee for finance & fundraising or Nominating & Board Development
• Assure that Urban Life Training has sufficient resources to operate
• Inform others about Urban Life Training
• Assist the Board in carrying out its fiduciary responsibilities, such as reviewing financial statements.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Richard at 202-544-5081 to express your interest.

Relationship Intelligence News that You Can Use

Interview with Give and Take author Adam Grant

We all know what successful people look like. They are are the ones who do whatever it takes, the ones with the sharp elbows, the ones who know how to take what is theirs. But there is a different, better path to success, argues Adam Grant, in “Give and Take.” Grant, a professor of management at Wharton, shares research which suggest that some of the most successful people — not just in business, but in many realms — are in fact classic “givers,” people who genuinely try to help those around them. How could this be? From Scientific American.com. Read More

Victoria's Secret Angel Kylie Bisutti Drops Modeling

Kylie Bisutti had reached the pinnacle of her career as a Victoria’s Secret Angel. But instead of feeling proud, she felt exploited. She tells why she turned to faith after the fashion industry put her through hell

• Kylie Bisutti, 23, saw her dream come true when she beat 10,000 other girls in the 2009 Victoria’s Secret Angel Search competition. In her forthcoming book, “I’m No Angel,” she reveals why she gave up a multimillion-dollar career for the quiet life in Montana. She tells The Post’s Kate Storey her tale:

From the NYpost.com: Read More

Amazing Video documenting Creation of Life in the Womb

As discussed in the Relationship Intelligence curriculum, there is one inheritance all of us receive at birth, our sexual inheritance, the fact that each of us are born male or female and will grow up to become a man or a woman with the ability to unite together with someone of the opposite sex to create a new human being.

Here is a video created by Dr. Alexander Tsiaris, former Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University. This amazing video shows the development of a human being from first cell formed by fertilization of an egg by a sperm until a new baby is born. The most brilliant of scientists with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars cannot do this, but each of us, in partnership with someone of the opposite sex has the power to create a new human being!

We've posted this video at Relationships101.org:

http://relationships101.org/relationship/video?wid=263

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