The Alabama Abstinence-Until-Marriage Education Program (AAEP) -Title V is a federally funded program from the Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, through the Alabama Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health Services. The AAEP provides funding to seven (7) community-based projects to provide *abstinence-until-marriage education to adolescents 10-19 years of age in 39 of 67 counties in Alabama.

AAEP Goals

• teach and promote abstinence-until-marriage from all types of sexual activity
• reduce the occurrence of out-of-wedlock sexual activity among adolescents 10-19 years of age, thereby, reduce the occurrence of pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease and the consequent social, psychological, and physical problems

*Federal Definition for Abstinence Education (A-H)

An educational or motivational program or project which:
A. has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychosocial, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
B. teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
C. teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
D. teaches that a mutually faithful and monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
E. teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
F. teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society;
G. teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
H. teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

For more information, please contact Sandy Powell, RN, Director of Adolescent & School Health by phone at (334) 206-5050 or by email.