Love Notes
Our Extension Clients Using Love Notes:
- Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Louisa County (IA)
- University of Arizona – Maricopa Co. Coop Extension (AZ)
- University of Delaware – Coop Extension (DE)
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville Extension (TN)
Mind Matters
Our Extension Clients Using Mind Matters:
- New Mexico State University Department of Extension Family and Consumer Sciences (EFCS) (NM)
- Ohio State University Extension, Scioto (OH)
- Prairie View A&M University Cooperative Extension (TX)
- Russell County Extension Service (KY)
- University of Delaware – Coop Extension (DE)
Relationship Smarts PLUS
Our Extension Clients Using Relationship Smarts PLUS:
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System (AL)
- Midway Extension District (KS)
- University of Maryland Extension (MD)
- Bullitt Co. Extension Services (KY)
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville Extension (TN)
Emerging Relationships
Our Extension Clients Using Emerging Relationships:
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System (AL)
- University of Illinois Extension – Livingston, Mclean, Woodford (IL)
Money Habitudes
Our Extension Clients Using Money Habitudes:
- University of Maryland Extension (MD)
- Franklin County Coop Extension (KY)
- South Dakota State University – Extension – Lincoln County (SD)
- Johnson County Cooperative Extension Service (KY)
- University of Kentucky Extension – Hopkins County (KY)
Read more about Mind Matters: Implementing Across New Mexico
This webinar will highlight the experiences of the Extension Family Life team that spearheaded and implemented Mind Matters in their communities. They will share their successes reaching diverse audiences as well as lessons learned to improve future implementation efforts.
Check out our Extension Case Studies below!
Goal: Prevent Domestic Violence
Funding: Local County Grant
Setting: Middle and High School Classrooms
Curriculum: Relationship Smarts Plus
Goal: Help Inmates become less emotionally reactive and to decrease anxiety
Funding: Extension Funds
Setting: Jail, Corrections
Curriculum: Mind Matters
- Effectiveness of relationship education among high school youth: the role of context, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, Esra Şahin, Joshua J. Turner, J. Scott Crapo, Kay Bradford & Brian Higginbotham (2025).
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Love Notes: A quasi-experimental comparison of formats and a 3-month follow up. Crapo, J. S., Bradford, K., & Higginbotham, B. J. (2025).
- For the full report and presentation by Dr. Crapo, Click Here.
- UGA 2017-2018 Relationship Smarts Plus Impact Report Futris, T., Molter, M., Rylee, L., & Farner, K. (2018).
- Factors Associated with Romantic Relationship Self-Efficacy Following Youth-Focused Relationship Education. Family Relations. Futris, T. G., Sutton, T. E. and Duncan, J. C. (2017). Family Relations, 66(5), 777-793.
- An Evaluation of the Relationship Smarts Plus Program on Adolescents in Georgia. Futris, T. G., Sutton, T. E., and Richardson, E. W. (2013). Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 1(2).