One of the things I loved about working with the Youth Apostles was the common sense way they approached getting high schoolers to live a life of faith. One of the most effective programs they run are Catholic Life Communities (CLCs) for high schoolers. At parishes that they work, there's separate boys and girls CLCs. They even meet on separate nights. There's no co-ed retreats. This solves the hormone problem very effectively, but unfortunately raises some eyebrows among people who consider single-sex groups to be old-fashioned, rigid, pre-Vatican II, etc.
Please keep youth ministers in your prayers.
