The classroom curriculum is reinforced and extended to encourage parent support by regular home visits by social workers. Another very intensive program, operating in New Jersey, follows a leading national abstinence-education program model. It provides girls with between 100 and 200 hours of interaction with responsible adult mentors, most of whom are teachers, over a minimum of three years. In several Wisconsin middle schools, there is a program that works with youth for two hours every day after school. This program delivers strong abstinence messages every day through a variety of means, including a formal curriculum that emphasizes knowledge of anatomy, information about sexually transmitted diseases and the values of marriage, and positive skill-building activities such as job shadowing and exposure to cultural events and positive social engagements.
Youths generally stay in the program throughout their middle school years.
Moreover, for many youths, program activities may extend into the summer, when the abstinence curriculum and youth development activities extend to all day, five days a week. Virginia has a program for 8th and 10th graders that uses a nationally marketed abstinence-education curriculum. The program classes, which meet about 30 times a year, address abstinence in the context of a curriculum strongly focused on character development. The school-based abstinence education efforts are bolstered by media campaigns, an information and referral service, and community workshops. And, Texas has a countywide initiative reaching students in more than two dozen school districts with a national abstinence education curriculum.