The Code/Sisters program is designed to provide age-appropriate information and education to pre-teen boys and girls relative to exercising the skills and ability necessary to delay sexual activity, resist peer pressure and appropriately respond to social situations that would place them at risk of experiencing teen pregnancy, dropping out of high school, and/or becoming involved with drugs, tobacco and alcohol.

WHAT
1.  Abstinence-education and character education program for adolescent boys and girls
2.  Two sixteen-week sessions (Fall and Spring)
3.  After school program once a week (2 hours) @ various schools around Winston-Salem
4.  One week long summer session

WHY
1.  To decrease teen pregnancy and increase personal responsibility
2.  Increase self-respect and self-confidence
3.  Improve communication between parents and adolescents regarding sex
4.  Provide young boys and girls with pertinent information regarding the consequences of early initiation of sex
5.  Emphasize the importance of practicing abstinence as a means of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and character development

WHO
1.  Adolescent boys and girls (age 10-14)
2.  Young men in need of positive male role models
3.  Young women in need of positive female role models

HOW
Male and female facilitators deliver the program using the empirically-based Wise Guys and Sex Can Wait curriculums for adolescents.   Additionally, the programs are funded by the United Way of Forsyth County, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Diocese of Charlotte.