Looking for new ways to fund your relationship education work? Take a look at the new Teen Pregnancy Prevention funding opportunities with Aaron Larson, Dibble’s Director of Programs and former staff at the Department of Health and Human Services. He will go over the basics of applying for federal funding plus he will also take a look at the Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) and Sexual Risk Reduction (SRR) adaptations of Love Notes (found to be one of the most effective teen pregnancy prevention programs) and Relationship Smarts PLUS. Both programs are currently being successfully used for teen pregnancy prevention in federally funded Sexual Risk Avoidance Education grants. Presenter: Aaron Larson, Director of Programs, The Dibble Institute
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Relationships, whether sound or not, are central to the lives of disconnected youth. When at-risk youth learn healthy relationship skills they discover how to make beneficial decisions about their lives, their romantic relationships, and their family connections. We will identify risk factors that foster youth and runaway, homeless youth experience and how healthy relationship education offers protective factors that empower them to make healthier choices for their futures. At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will: Identify the risk factors that disconnected youth experience and the protective factors that healthy relationship education offers them. Learn how healthy relationship education increases social and emotional well-being as well as decision making for youth. Discover how the evidence-based curriculum Love Notes is being used to improve outcomes for at-risk, homeless youth. Presenter: Dixie Zittlow, Director of Outreach l The Dibble Institute Resources: April 2017 Webinar PPT
Join The Dibble Institute’s staff as they share their high-points from last year in the field of youth relationship education. Topics include: Research that relationship education is a potent new tool for pregnancy prevention, Robust relationship education as part of the sexual violence prevention toolkit, New settings for relationship education including corrections, child welfare, and dating violence prevention, New evidence that porn threatens the capacity to build intimacy, and Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) through relationship education. Presenters: The Dibble Institute Staff Resources: Love Notes ACES Poster Love Notes Issue Brief Soft Skills That Foster Workforce Success Teens Technology and Romantic Relationships
Successful interpersonal skills are key to getting and keeping a job as well as building a stable home life. Explore the rationale behind teaching social competence skills for workplace and family success. Learn about the Love Notes program, which is being successfully implemented with GAIN/GROW (TANF) students in LA County community colleges (LAC5). Discover how it can be easily embedded into your employability and life skills programs to increase client success. Presenter: Kay Reed, Executive Director of The Dibble Institute with A Panel of LAC5 CalWORKS Counselors Resources: Soft Skills Report
Healthy relationships are important in “all” young people’s lives! Disconnected and vulnerable youth including Runaway Homeless Youth, Pregnant Teens, LGBT, and youth living in low-socioeconomic neighborhoods want to have healthy relationships. What’s the best way to help them achieve their dreams? Join us to see how the healthy relationship education curriculum – Love Notes – is changing attitudes, behaviors and lives of these most vulnerable young people. Guest speaker Vanessa Mejia will present a successful model of healthy relationship education with disconnected youth in schools, and community centers, as well as a shelter in Brooklyn, NY. Presenter: Vanessa Mejia, MPH, Youth Services Program Coordinator, Diaspora Community Services, Brooklyn, NY Resources: September 2015 Webinar PPT
We all may know someone who has experienced dating or domestic violence (DV) or intimate personal violence (IPV). Naming the violence is the first step to dealing with it, breaking its pattern, and empowering teens for avoidance. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. How can we use healthy relationship education to address domestic violence or intimate personal violence? Join Katherine Hillgren as she: Shares her work using the Love Notes curriculum to address DV and IPV. Shares her work in alternative schools, at a runaway shelter, and with pregnant and parenting teens. Demonstrates how this education becomes a community project. Presenter: Katherine Hillgreen, MA, LPC,Empowering Families Coordinator, Ozarks Family Resource Center, Missouri Resources: October 2014 Webinar PPT
Teen parenting, poor refusal skills, early sexual involvement, and family complexity characterize the experiences of many youthful offenders. When teens and young adults are incarcerated, they often return to society still lacking healthy relationship skills necessary for successful family reunification and job retention. Relationship Smarts Plus and Love Notes curricula are about the building of the developmental assets missing in this population. Attendees will hear how a youth detention program is tackling this issue and a re-entry program experienced successful outcomes by addressing relationship skills first and job skills second. Presenters: Marcia White, IMPACT Community Action, Columbus, OH; Re-Entry Program, Relationship Education/Workforce Readiness and Laura Waggle, Perry County Detention Center, OH; Relationship Education in Juvenile Corrections; sponsored thru Forever Dads and the Ohio Office of Jobs and Families Resources: August 2014 Webinar PPT
13 Lessons for Teens About Love and Romance
SKU: RSP5.1-J10
Ages: 12-16 years
By: Marline E. Pearson, MA
For more information on Relationship Smarts PLUS, including a course outline, sample lesson, research and evaluations, and more, please visit the Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.1 program overview.
Relationship Smarts Plus 5.1 – Participant Journal (Pack of 10) (English) includes:
- 10 Participant Journals/per unit
13 Lessons for Teens About Love and Romance
SKU: A-RSP5.1-SRA-J10
Ages: 12-16 years
By: Marline E. Pearson, MA
For more information on Relationship Smarts PLUS SRA, including a course outline, sample lesson, research and evaluations, and more, please visit the Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.1 SRA program overview.
Relationship Smarts Plus 5.1 SRA– Participant Journal (Pack of 10) (English) includes:
- 10 Participant Journals/per unit
Bulk pricing is available for bulk quantities. See table below.
Quantity | Bulk Price |
2 – 9 Packs | $115 each |
10 – 99 Packs | $110 each |
100+ Packs | $95 each |
Purchases for this product are final.
13 Lessons for Teens About Love and Romance
SKU: A-RSP5-SRA-J10
Ages: 12-16 years
By: Marline E. Pearson, MA
For more information on Relationship Smarts PLUS SRA, including a course outline, sample lesson, research and evaluations, and more, please visit the Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 SRAprogram overview.
Relationship Smarts Plus 5.0 SRA– Participant Journal (Pack of 10) (English) includes:
- 10 Participant Journals/per unit
Bulk pricing is available for bulk quantities. See table below.
Quantity | Bulk Price |
2 – 9 Packs | |
10 – 99 Packs | |
100+ Packs |
To review the Table Of Contents, click here.
Purchases for this product are final.
13 Lessons for Teens About Love and Romance
SKU: RSP5-J10
Ages: 12-16 years
By: Marline E. Pearson, MA
For more information on Relationship Smarts PLUS, including a course outline, sample lesson, research and evaluations, and more, please visit the Relationship Smarts PLUS 5.0 program overview.
Relationship Smarts Plus 5.0 – Participant Journal (Pack of 10) (English) includes:
- 10 Participant Journals/per unit
NOTE THE NEW TIME! 5 PM EASTERN AND 2 PM PACIFIC. Back by popular demand!* Come join Dixie and Carolyn in the Self-Soothing lesson from Mind Matters. Self-Soothing is a skill that is developed over time, through practice The goal of self-soothing is to dial-down the reactive response of the body’s central nervous system. A traumatized person needs a means of reducing the automatic reactivity of their nervous system. Self-soothing will help. You will learn and practice four self-soothing skills that you can use personally as well as share with colleagues and clients. *Over 3,000 people have viewed this class online. You will love it live! Participant Objectives: Connect the key concept of self-soothing/self-regulation to positive life outcomes Recognize the difference between taking the time to decide rather than immediately reacting to persons, places, and things Learn four different self-soothing skills that can be used inside and outside of the…