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Sage Walk’s wilderness program offers a powerful and significant approach to help your teen overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Our mission is to resolve family conflict in order to reunite families that have been torn apart by the behavioral problems of a troubled child. Sage Walk was chosen as the wilderness program for ABC's Brat Camp in part to their effective drug and alcohol education component to help teens experimenting with substances.

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Research Indicates Sex Ed Teachers Are Uncomfortable Teaching Their Subject

Teachers, parents, and school administrators are in the middle of a controversy about how to present sex education classes to teenagers. Many want abstinence-only curriculum, while others want schools to teach birth control.

A new study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology indicates that almost a third of instructors teaching sex education have no formal training, and another two-thirds do not teach students how to use condoms. Although many students are sexually active, they are not getting information in sex education classes about how to talk to their partners about sex and contraceptives.

The author of the study, Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, is a doctor and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. She says, "Teachers are not being trained, they are not comfortable teaching sex ed, and if the teachers are not comfortable, it's unlikely students are comfortable with the knowledge they are getting in school."

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