HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
Operation Keepsake is a sex education program that seeks to empower and encourage young people to remain sexually abstinent until marriage. The program began in the spring of 1988, reaching 65 students in one school. Since that time, thousands of students have benefited from Operation Keepsake’s positive approach to sexuality.

The program promotes the development of true intimacy with another person within the parameters of a healthy marital relationship. Human sexuality is discussed in a holistic manner. This type of approach encourages students to develop strong character traits, to become other-centered as opposed to self-centered, and to acknowledge that their decisions not only affect their own lives, but the lives of those around them.