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
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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
Relationship Smarts PLUS is a 13-lesson evidence-based relationship skills curriculum for young teens ages 12-16. It is designed to help teens learn how to make wise choices about relationships, dating, partners, waiting to have sex, and more.
The purchase of this 2-hour On-Demand Crosswalk training grants access for a single facilitator who has gone through a Love Notes training and plans to teach Relationship Smarts PLUS .
You will learn from Dibble Training Specialist, Caleb Cook, how to teach the content that is unique to Relationship Smarts PLUS both online and in person. Because this quick training is focused on the content that is different between Love Notes and Relationship Smarts PLUS, you are required to have completed a Love Notes training prior to purchasing this session.
This is a recorded session. You can purchase and access this session a total of 5 times to complete your training. Your purchase will include a link and password to the training video.
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 | $110 each |
| 10 – 99 Packs | $105 each |
| 100+ Packs | $90 each |
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…
Helping Boys Navigate Harmful Online Influences Nearly half of U.S. teens say they are online “almost constantly. It’s critical to recognize that messages, images, and conversations that boys see or join online can shape how they think about relationships, consent, and what it means to “be a man” (masculinity). Guidance for Parents on Encouraging Boys to Be Upstanders Against Harmful Behavior Social media feeds, group chats, and online gaming spaces can sometimes expose boys to unkind or harmful interactions. Over time, repeated exposure to—and social approval of—these behaviors can influence what boys perceive to be an acceptable way to treat others. Healthy Romantic Relationships and Youth Well-being Healthy communication between romantic partners influences individual well-being, relationship quality, and satisfaction among young adults. Youth-supporting professionals should be aware of differences in communication preferences among partners and help youth navigate these differences within their relationships Crucial Conversations About Healthy Romantic Relationships This toolkit is…

