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Who is Creating
Positive Relationships, Inc.?
 
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CPR, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3)
nonprofit organization. Its volunteer Board of Directors consists of founder
Gayle Bucher, parents, educators, physicians and business professionals.
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The organization is led by
Executive Director, Esther Meier; Director of Programs, Anita Casterline;
and Associate Director, Sharon Hedegard. All are college-educated
professionals.
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The CPR curriculum is based
on abstinence-only education. Those who have been sexually active are
encouraged to adopt "secondary abstinence" as the best approach to a safe,
whole life before marriage.
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Within Marion County,
Indiana and the surrounding counties, the CPR program is taught by a team of
trained and certified instructors. Outside metropolitan Indianapolis, the
program is available to "Associates" who receive training and support from
CPR but develop their own teaching teams.
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CPR has also responded to
special requests such as inner-city programs and even penal facilities.
Efforts outside the U.S. include staff trips to Ukraine, Nicaragua, Africa
and Russia with curriculum translations available in Russian and Spanish.
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The programs of CPR,
including active efforts to involve parents, are supported by ongoing parent
meetings, teacher training, parents workshop, and "When It's Time for THE
TALK," a book authored by Gayle Bucher and designed to support positive
parent-teen interaction.
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In Indiana, approximately
49% of CPR's revenue base comes from student fees (approximately $5.25 per
student) and Associate fees. The balance comes from individual donors,
organizations and foundations whose vital support makes the increasing
impact of CPR possible.
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In McKinley County, funding
for the program comes from private donors and a grant from the McKinley
County Alcohol Excise Tax Revenues. The program is presented free of
charge by the associate organization, Gallup Crisis Pregnancy Center, with
the occasional exception of a mileage reimbursement to the instructor.
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Founder Gayle Bucher began
working with teenagers in crisis in 1987. Based on a conviction that
prevention was vastly preferable to crisis counseling, Bucher conceives an
abstinence-based "whole person" educational program.
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Because Indiana law clearly
mandates "abstinence-only" sex education, Bucher designed the CPR program
for inclusion in public school curricula.
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Originally designed for
Grades 6-8 only, the pilot program reached 700 students in Avon (Hendricks
County, Indiana) Middle School in 1990.
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Regional and national
interest in the program, inspired development of the Associate program in
1992.
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A high school curriculum
was added in 1996.
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Growth of the CPR program
has been steady, both in metro-Indianapolis and around the country. In 2004:
CPR will reach over 60,000 students
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Associate programs have been established of which the Gallup Crisis
Pregnancy Center is one!
To contact Creating Positive Relations directly:
Website:
http://www.cpr1.org/
Physical
address: 160 W. Carmel Drive, Suite 232, Carmel, Indiana 46032
Telephone: 317-846-0386
Email:
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