Romance Academy Hits Norwich with Abstinence Message
Pregnancy Crisis Norfolk is due to launch its own Romance Academy at the end of this month in an effort to cut the number of unplanned pregnancies in the area among teenagers by boosting their self-esteem and promoting abstinence.
by Maria Mackay
Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 7:42 (GMT)
Pregnancy Crisis Norfolk is due to launch its own Romance Academy at the end of this month in an effort to cut the number of unplanned pregnancies in the area among teenagers by boosting their self-esteem and promoting abstinence.
PCN director Biddy Collyer was inspired by the successful BBC2 series No Sex Please We're Teenagers and a visit to Norwich last November by one of the show's presenters, Rachel Gardner, who set up the Romance Academy ministry with the TV show's co-presenter Dan Burke: "Anyone who saw the BBC2 programme last year must have been inspired by the enthusiasm and compassion of the two Christian youth workers who pioneered the Romance Academy," said Collyer in a Network Norwich report.
Romance Academy took a group of 12 young people and led them through a five month abstinence programme during which they were able to see relationships in a new light by removing the sex factor.
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