The Skinny

Connection Institute is a relationship education program that gives information and support to preteens, teenagers, and young adults as they face the often confusing issue of their sexuality.

CI exists to encourage honest conversation between parents and their children by educating and motivating families to make healthy decisions concerning dating relationships, self-esteem and sex. We offer a number of programs that empower teens to make healthy choices about life, love, sex, and relationships by connecting them to medically-accurate information, community resources, safe adults, as well as their families and good friends.

The Stats

VR (Virtuous Reality), the 10 day adolescent sexual health program in area schools, began in April 1997.  Click here to read our story.

The ten-session curriculum is taught in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Click here to learn more about VR

My Life and ManUp are full-day workshop-type programs for
10th-12th graders. Click here to learn about ManUp or My Life

More than 7,000 students will go through the ten-session curriculum every year.

We have seen phenomenal results based on our programming!

Click here to see how it’s working & why it’s important

Click here to see what students are saying

Click here to see what parents are saying