• Creating Positive Relationships, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization. Its volunteer Board of Directors consists of founder Gayle Bucher, parents, educators, physicians and business professionals.
• The organization is led by Executive Director, Esther Meier;  Program Director, Susan Adams; and Associate Director, Sharon Hedegard. All are college-educated professionals.
• The CPR curriculum is based on abstinence-only education. Those who have been sexually active are encouraged to adopt "secondary abstinence" as the best approach to a safe, whole life before marriage.
• Within Marion County, Indiana and the surrounding counties, the CPR program is taught by a team of trained and certified instructors.
• Outside metropolitan Indianapolis, the program is available to "Associates" who receive training and support from CPR but develop their own teaching teams.
• CPR has also responded to special requests such as inner-city programs and even penal facilities. Efforts outside the U.S. include staff trips to Ukraine, Nicaragua, and Russia with curriculum translations available in Russian and Spanish.
• The programs of CPR, including active efforts to involve parents, are supported by ongoing parent meetings, teacher training, parents workshop, and "When It's Time for THE TALK," a book authored by Gayle Bucher and designed to support positive parent-teen interaction.
• Approximately 49% of CPR's revenue base comes from student fees (approximately $5.50 per student) and Associate fees. The balance comes from individual donors, organizations and foundations whose vital support makes the increasing impact of CPR possible.

• Founder Gayle Bucher began working with teenagers in crisis in 1987. Based on a conviction that prevention was vastly preferable to crisis counseling, Bucher conceives an abstinence-based "whole person" educational program.
• Because Indiana law*** clearly mandates "abstinence-only" sex education, Bucher designed the CPR program for inclusion in public school curricula. Originally designed for Grades 6-8 only, the pilot program reached 700 students in Avon (Hendricks County, Indiana) Middle School in 1990.
• Regional and national interest in the program, inspired development of the Associate program in 1992.   
• A high school curriculum was added in 1996. 
• Growth of the CPR program has been steady, both in metro-Indianapolis and around the country. In 2006, CPR will reach over 70,000 students. 103 middle and high school contracts have been established.

*** INDIANA CODE 20-10.1-4-11
"Throughout instruction on human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases, an accredited school shall:

1. teach abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
2. include that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems; and
3. include that the best way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases and other associated health problems is to establish a mutually faithful monogamous relationship within the context of marriage."