When AIM was Established
I’m Just Getting Started
Mission
AIM’s mission is to provide community based education programming which empowers teens to make healthy choices which ensure brighter futures and healthy marriages.
History
In 1997, Abstinence In Motion was founded with the idea that we; as adults, as parents, as teachers, could never take on the forces of peer pressure and the public messages regarding sex alone. There are simply too many voices out there promoting risky behavior. If a difference was going to be made, it was really going to have to happen on the “inside.”
And so we decided on a three-part strategy involving community outreach to arm parents and students, in-school education programs and, most importantly, youth programs designed so that older students can tell younger students about the importance of sexual abstinence until marriage and abstinence from drugs and alcohol. The key was to approach the subject without excluding those who have made mistakes, because those often have the most impact, as the voice of experience.
What started as a small program in Pike County now reaches through eight counties in south central Alabama, striving to educate Alabama’s teens about abstinence until marriage and foster a supportive environment in our local communities that encourages abstinence. This growth was made possible by AIM receiving its first federal grant in 2002 and a second one (a five year grant) in October of 2006. The AIM Program also receives support from the City of Troy, Coffee County Board of Education, Troy Regional Medical Center and Charles Henderson Child Health Center.