EQUAL RIGHTS INSTITUTE

Online Courses:Equipped for Life Academy: Completing the production of the organization's new religious high-school curriculum was the primary mission. This curriculumconsisting of lesson plans, activities, slides, videos, assignments, assessments, and grading rubricswas crafted to meet state education standards and denominational religious requirements. Because of that, Equipped for Life Academy is suitable for use by Christian and Catholic high schools, religious education programs, and homeschool families. The curriculum was finally published in December 2024, completing a three-year production. Once completed, the organization immediately went to work promoting the curriculum to dioceses, schools, homeschool groups, and individuals with contacts in religious education. The organization also received a dozen glowing endorsements in the months that followed. This curriculum will challenge and equip students on abortion in a way that has not previously been possible to do at scale in classrooms across the country, and it is designed to foster productive conversation between pro-life and pro-choice students both in and out of the classroom.Other online courses: The organization publishes a lot of its core content in online courses, a format that is helpful for systematically guiding people through a lot of information no matter where they are in the world. Online courses are scalable, meaning there is no artificial limit to how many people can be helped by them in the way that there are limits to how many people can attend a live speaking event by an ERI speaker. The organization published the Equipped for Life Course on practical dialogue tips and pro-life apologetics in 2016 and the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass in 2019. The first course includes 38 lessons (making up about five hours of video content), along with group activities for students to digest the material by answering questions or practicing together. The second course includes 16 lessons (making up about seven hours of content), a workbook with organized notes, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, FAQs, and 40 practical tips. As of December 2024, 4,965 individuals were enrolled in at least one of the organization's online courses.