Many of us wonder about young people’s current lived experience and aspirations regarding their relationships.

For instance:

• Do adolescents still date? Do they still hope for a long-term committed partner or spouse?
• How are young people thinking about their intimate relationships?
• How are they visualizing their current or future families?

Join Love Notes author and noted thought leader, Marline Pearson, as she shares her experiences and reflections that come from teaching thousands of young people at Madison College, a two-year technical and community college as well as younger teens through STEM and Gateway programs. She will also share the different messages she gives young people from teens to late twenties about how best to approach relationships during those years.

Note: This is a conversational format. Please come prepared with questions to ask Marline.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

• Understand many young people’s outlook on intimate relationships.
• Feel more comfortable in answering young people’s questions about planning and pacing of relationships.
• Have their questions about adolescent relationships addressed through Ms. Pearson’s insights.

Presenter: Marline E. Pearson, MA. Author – Love Notes, Relationship Smarts PLUS, Making a Love Connection.

Who should attend: Love Notes and Relationship Smarts PLUS facilitators and certified trainers, teen pregnancy prevention, SRA, healthy relationship grant managers, policy makers, researchers, community based program managers and administrators, people who want to learn more about the field of relationship education