Second Wednesday Webinars
The Dibble Institute® offers a monthly FREE webinar on various topics related to healthy relationships for youth, teens, and young adults.
Technology & Boys:
Supporting Safe, Healthy Relationships in Boys’ Digital Lives
This webinar will bring together research-based insights and practical guidance to help youth-serving professionals better understand boys’ digital lives and support safe, respectful, and healthy relationships, both online and offline.
As a major part of teen boys’ lives, digital spaces can support connection and learning, but they can also expose boys to pressure, harmful behavior, and unhealthy relationship norms. In this webinar, we will explore how technology shapes boys’ relationships, well-being, and everyday social experiences.
Objectives: Participants will be able to:
- Understand current patterns and trends in boys’ use of technology.
- Learn about recent research related to the risks and benefits of online relationships.
- Identify ways to incorporate research-based tools and strategies into existing programs and practices.
Presenter: April Wilson, Ph.D. and Mindy Scott, Ph.D.- Child Trends
Who should attend: Youth development professionals, counselors, parents, caregivers, other caring adults, educators, program staff, researchers, and practitioners.
When: Tuesday, November 10, 2026 @ 1:00pm Pacific/4:00pm Eastern
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!
Webinar Archive
- January 2026: Profound Ideas on the Nature of Commitment
- February 2026: Navigating When Risk is Everywhere
- March 2026: Advocacy Primer for Non-Profits
- April 2026: Conversation Strategies For Talking with Youth about Healthy Relationships
- May 2026: The Dating Recession Insights from the 2025 National Dating Landscape Survey
- June 2026: Explore Mind Matters 2.0: A Map for Thriving
- July 2026: Understanding the Story Your Youth Relationship Education Data is Trying to Tell You
- August 2026: How Teams Get Stuck: Navigating Relationship Skills and Real-Life
- September 2026: From Challenge to Opportunity: How PlanBe Used Innovation, Youth Engagement, and Community Partnership to Adapt and Thrive
- October 2026: You Can’t Teach a Flooded Brain: The Neuroscience of Why Mind Matters Comes First
- January 2025: Sexual Cyberbullying & Healthy Relationships
- February 2025: Building Trust Using Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention
- March 2025: Successful Federal Grant Writing Strategies
- April 2025: New Program! Project WITH—Stories About Love, Life, and Relationships for System-Involved Youth
- May 2025: Helping Healers Heal by Completing the Stress Cycle
- June 2025: Mind Matters: An Intervention for Substance Use and Misuse Prevention
- July 2025: Exploring the Importance of a Trusted Adult
- August 2025: From Adversity to Resilience: A Framework for Hope
- September 2025: The Price of Love: Relationships Safe & Financially Healthy
- October 2025: Unpacking the Dibble Treasure Chest!
- November 2025: Love Notes and Life Lessons: Building Resilience Among Youth Where It’s Needed Most
- January 2024: The State of Youth Relationship Education Today
- February 2024: Young People’s Experiences and Thoughts on Relationships Today: A conversation with Marline Pearson
- March 2024: The Power of Relationship Education from a Policy Perspective
- April 2024: “But you know I’m just like you, right?” Exploring Adolescent Dating and Disability
- May 2024: Centering Youth Voice Using Peer Facilitators in Relationship Education to Engage and Empower Youth
- SPECIAL WEBINAR: Emerging Relationships: Preparing for Healthy Relationships
- June 2024: Solutions of Success: Using Mind Matters in Juvenile Justice
- August 2024: Results From a Recent Investigation of Love Notes
- September 2024: Lopsided Love: Asymmetrical Commitment in Romantic Relationships
- October 2024: Mind Matters: Implementing Across New Mexico
- November 2024: Innovative Uses of Mind Matters to Promote Youth & Family Well-Being
- January: Love Notes: A Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that Actually Prevents Teen Pregnancy
- SPECIAL WEBINAR: Completely Updated! Love Notes 4.0 and Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0
- February: Implementing Love Notes with Peer Facilitators to Increase Youth Voice and Engagement
- March: Premarital Cohabitation: Timing, Engagement, and Marital Outcomes
- April: The Power of the Success Sequence for Young Adults
- May: Building a Strong Foundation for Continuous Quality Improvement
- June: Teen Parenthood Matters: Lets Talk About Prevention
- August: Strengthening Facilitation Skills: A Training Curriculum for Programs Working with Youth
- September: Experiences Of Peer Educators Teaching Relationship Education to College Students
- October: Three Years Later: The Impact of Relationship Smarts Plus on Youth in Georgia
- November: How Do Gender-Based Groups Impact Program Outcomes?
- October: Understanding the Effects of Healthy Relationship Programs for Youth
- September: Programming for Pregnant and Parenting Teens in Delaware
- August: Stretching Grant Dollars and Expanding Reach: “Teachers as Facilitators” of Healthy Relationship Programming
- July: Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience: Theories and Practices that Work!
- June: The Success Sequence: New Research Findings
- SPECIAL WEBINAR: Start Your Engines! Getting Ready for Grants in 2023
- May: Relationship Churning: Recognizing and Understanding On-Again/Off-Again Relationships
- April: Adolescents, Attachment & ACEs Science
- March: Strengthening Social-Emotional Wellbeing for Youth in Care
- February: Adolescent and Young Adults’ Relationship Expectations and Experiences
- January: Sliding vs. Deciding: Commitment, Ambiguity, and Relationship Formation
- December: Introducing Me & My Emotions: Supporting Teens’ Mental Wellness
- October: The Impact of Mind Matters: Preliminary Evidence of Effectiveness in a Community-Based Sample
- September: Piloting Mind Matters with Hispanic Youth during COVID-19
- August: Targeting Teens in Arkansas: Building Better Relationships
- Special Webinar: Accessing ESSER Funds to Address SEL and Mental Health Supports
- July: Using Mindfulness Skills to Reduce Risk Factors in Sexual Health
- June: Youth Relationship Education Research & Practice Priorities. Highlights from the Marriage Strengthening Research and Dissemination Center
- May: Co-Regulation Strategies: Practical Tools for Program Staff to Foster Youth Self-Regulation
- April: Using a Strategic Learning Agenda to Drive Action and Program Success
- March: Scenario Tools to Thrive in a Post-Pandemic Future
- February: Preventing Dating Violence By Helping Students Choose Healthy Relationships and Build Social/Emotional Skills
- January: Does Marriage Still Matter? A Current Perspective
November 2020: Relationship Education: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Youth
October 2020 SPECIAL: Ongoing Funding for Relationship Education: Creative Sustainability Planning
October 2020: Continuous Evidence Building through Small Tests of Change
August 2020: Online Teaching Strategies: Tips and Guidance From the Field
July 2020: Mind Matters Lesson 1: Self Soothing
June 2020: Fatherhood: Building Self-Sufficient and Resilient Families
May 2020: Scaling Up a Large Program in Rural Areas
March 2020: The Impact of Mind Matters: Results from the University of Louisville’s Pilot Study
February 2020: Exploring Social Poverty: Low-Income Populations and the Impact of Community Ties
January 2020: Project Rise: Bringing Relationship Education to Hispanic Youth
November 2019: Foundations: How to Build & Sustain the Communication Pipeline with Young Adults
October 2019: One-on-One: A New Approach for Teaching Mind Matters in Individual Settings
September 2019: “Meet Them Where They Are” Building Protective Factors for the Future
July 2019: “Chambers of the Heart” Building and Maintaining Trust and Relationships
June 2019: What Do You Mean? Unblurring the Lines between Consent, Assault, & So Much More
May 2019: Friends and Crushes–The Effects of Friends on Romantic Relationships
April 2019: Tips for Teaching Relationship Education in High Schools: Lessons from the Field
March 2019: Rural Vs. Urban Youth: Are They Really That Different?
February 2019: The Power of Relationship Education for Student Success
January 2019: What Do We Really Know About “The Cycle of Violence?”
November 2018: Implementing Erin’s Law Through Relationship Education
October 2018: Self-Regulation Skills to Support Healthy Relationships for Youth
August 2018: Completely Updated! Love Notes and Relationship Smarts PLUS
July 2018: Adverse Childhood Experiences: Implications for Policymakers and Practitioners
June 2018: Effectively Addressing Trauma in Healthy Relationship Education
May 2018: Teen Sexting, Cyberbullying, and Adolescent Relationships
Special Webinar: 2018 TPP Funding Opportunity – An Opportunity for Relationship Education
February 2018: Daddy Don’t Go: Dismantling the “Deadbeat Dad” Stereotype
January 2018: The Success Sequence: Marriage, Kids, and the ‘Success Sequence’ Among Young Adults
November 2017: Shifting the Field to Prioritize Relationship Education for Youth
September 2017: Improving Young People’s Outcome through Harm Reduction and Resiliency Work
July 2017: Practical Methods for Implementing Love Notes with Risk-Immersed Youth
June 2017: Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience
April 2017: Empowering Disconnected Youth: The Protective Factors of Healthy Relationship Education
January 2017: 2016 Highlights in Youth Relationship Education: Trends, Tools, Research, and More!
November 2016: Teens and Pornography: The Latest Research and Resources
October 2016: Why “Love Notes” Works as a Relationship-Based Pregnancy Prevention Program
September 2016: Teens-Technology and Social Media Impacts on Healthy Relationship Development
July 2016: Best Practices for Serving Youth in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs
June 2016: Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
April 2016: Introducing At-Risk Youth to Relationship Skills for Love Life, and Work
March 2016: Effectively Addressing Trauma in Healthy Relationship Education
March 2016: Special Webinar – Love Notes for OAH Grantees
February 2016: Love & the Movies! Dibble’s Free Movie Discussion Guides
January 2016: Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
November 2015: Knot Yet: What Does the Rising Marriage Age Mean for Men, Women, and Families
September 2015: Healthy Relationship Education with Disconnected Youth
July 2015: Building Brighter Futures – Relationship Education with Non-Custodial Parents
June 2015: Connecting the Dots: Healthy Romantic Relationships in Adolescents’ Lives
May 2015: Introduction to a Trauma Informed Approach in Relationship Education
April 2015: Relationship Education Outreach in 4-H and Extension Programs
February 2015: Ten Ways for Teens to Improve Their Chances for a Great Romance
November 2014: Dibble Goes Digital! Our Most Popular Teaching Tools are Online
September 2014: Teens, Technology, and Social Media: Impacts on Healthy Relationship Development
July 2014: Beyond the Feds – Proven Fundraising Strategies for Healthy Relationship Programs
June 2014: “Doing the Best I Can”: Fatherhood in the Inner City
May 2014: Money Habitudes 2 – for At-Risk Youth: What Money Means, and Why it Matters
April 2014: The Greatest Gift to a Child: A Healthy Parental Relationship
February 2014: I’m In Love! Understanding and Handling Fabulous Love Chemicals
January 2014: Building Relationship Skills with Young Adults in Community-Based Programs
October 2013: The Power of the Love Story: Empowering Teens Through Literature
September 2013: Essential Lessons Learned in Dating: Teaching the Stages of Relationships
August 2013: Managing Conflict: Addressing the Four Communication Danger Signs
July 2013: Why Teens Hook-Up: Relationship Skills to Today’s Teens
June 2013: Love Lives Are Not Neutral: Current Findings from the Field
April 2013: Integrating Relationship Education into Health Classes
March 2013: Love is in the Air! Preparing Students for Safe Proms and Spring Breaks
February 2013: Can’t Buy Me Love: How to be Rich in Life and Love
January 2013: The Dibble Institute: A Resource for Guiding Youth to Successful Relationships