PROGRAMS

Stages of Care

Reality Check

The PRC’s first stage of care, Reality Check, focuses on addressing the root of sexual integrity through education. It is a science-based, state-approved Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Education program that teaches young people about personal responsibility, goal setting, healthy decision-making, and the prevention of risky behaviors.

Abstinence is presented as the best way to prevent unplanned pregnancies and contract STIs — and highlights the stability and benefits of a healthy marriage as the appropriate avenue for sexual relations.

The PRC is actively recruiting and training individuals who would like to teach this essential program to teens. Previous teaching experience is beneficial but not required.

Reality Check helps students understand the benefits of delaying sexual activity and childbearing to protect their future goals and foster lifelong relationships.

The alternative to an SRA program is an SRR program — sexual risk reduction. SRR assumes that teens can’t or won’t avoid sexual experimentation and so focuses on the use of condoms and other forms of contraception with a view to simply reduce, rather than eliminate, sexual risk among teens as a “secondary prevention” strategy.

The SRR approach normalizes teen sex even though CDC data continues to show that the majority of teens (close to 70%) have not had sex. Conversely, SRA equips teens to withstand peer pressure and refrain from risk sexual behavior, helping improve their prospects of reaching positive future outcomes. Studies show that in states that teach Sexual Risk Avoidance, the teen birth rate is lower.

Every year, the PRC teaches Reality Check to hundreds of middle and high school students across Utah through public schools, charter schools, homeschool groups, and youth groups. In the 2024 school year, the number of students that were taught through the Reality Check program was over 1,800, and we are currently recommended as the top provider in Granite School District.

Topics Taught:

  • Personal Health & Goal Setting
  • Understanding Outside Influences
  • Reproductive Systems & Pregnancy
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  • Emotional Bonding
  • Setting Healthy Boundaries & Refusal Skills

Hear from Students

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"I really wanted to have sex, but what they taught us changed my mind. Thank you."
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"What helped is knowing what 'love' really is!"
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"They taught me so much that I didn't know. It helps me have confidence to say no."