Active Relationships Includes Military also in Spanish
Teaches practical relationship skills including effective communication and conflict resolution, money management, sustaining romance, and developing family traditions. This program targets various populations including youth, couples, military families, and singles. Materials are available in Spanish for Latino families. Facilitators become certified by attending a 16-hour training workshop or by watching training videos. Spanish-speaking trainers are available.
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Art of Loving Well: A Character Education
Literature-based character education program designed for schools (grades 7-12), community organizations, or for use at home. This program focuses on peer pressure, self-destructive behaviors, adolescent pregnancy, AIDS and other diseases, and on learning responsible sexual and social values and relationship skills. Facilitators can be schoolteachers, parents, or community facilitators.
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Aspire/Excel
Aspire is a public school abstinence and marriage education curriculum and Excel is a faith-based abstinence and marriage education curriculum designed for use in churches, youth groups, and Christian schools. Aspire and Excel present a positive case for the benefits of abstinence until marriage and help teens understand the importance of planning ahead for a future healthy marriage. Curriculum workbooks are interactive and regularly updated as new data and statistics become available. Excel encourages and facilitates parental participation.
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Building Relationships: Developing Skills for Life
Emphasizes youth communication and conflict resolution skills.This program focuses on financial decisions, sexuality, and family roles. Designed for teachers` use in classroom settings.A new book for youth called Building Relationships: Developing Skills for Life is the core of the Building Relationship Program. The goal of the book and program are to help youth develop their personal and relationship skills which they can use in all of their relationships throughout life. The book chapters are based on the PREPARE/ENRICH categories and the key chapters focus on important relationship areas including communication, conflict resolution, family of origin, finances, roles, and values and beliefs.
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Choosing the Best
Teaches young people how to build positive character and avoid negative peer pressure; teaches sexual abstinence.Covering topics that are highly relevant to lower high school teens, this eight-lesson curriculum powerfully communicates the value of committing to abstinence. Videos that open each lesson lead naturally to discussion. Each 50-minute segment balances information about healthy choices with activities and role-plays that help guys and girls practice saying “NO.” Topics include: Setting Goals, Making the BEST Decisions, Avoiding Pregnancy, Avoiding STDs, Developing the BEST relationships, Choosing Abstinence Until Marriage, Overcoming the Pressure, and Being Assertive.
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Connections
A non-religious, non-sexual content program created for schools and youth organizations. Teaches teens appropriate dating, relationship, and marriage skills. Connections courses teach teens the skills that are essential for success in their dating relationships, and in preparing for marriage: self-understanding, how relationships work, managing emotions, dating and emotions, dealing with problems, effective communication and what to expect from dating and marriage. Connections material is fascinating to teens and immediately useful. In addition to lectures, lessons include lively brainstorming, small group work, games and role-playing. Connections programs were created for schools and youth organizations. Facilitators use instructor manual, student manuals, visual materials, activity and game cards, and handouts during the sessions.
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Essential Disciplines For Teens
This curriculum, ready to use out-of-the-box, equips teens with the practical understanding and potential immediate mastery of five Essential Disciplines or necessary practices for personal and interpersonal success. The five Essential Disciplines focus on character, communication, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and ones calling (purpose, passion and vision). In the field of computer and software this is referred to as a consistent user interface. Regardless of the software used, the user always works with a window and always has a pull-down menu at the top of the screen, and so forth. Once a user learns how to navigate these consistent features, they can work their way through almost any software program. Similarly, Essential Disciplines does this for personal and relational growth. It teaches you how to navigate relationships by recognizing certain common and enduring features. Her is a simple overview: The Refine process concentrates on self (me) and focuses on character development. The Share process concentrates on the other (you) and focuses on communication. The reconcile process concentrates on self and other (we) in negative situations and focuses on conflict resolution. The Enhance process concentrates on the positive in situations and focuses on continual improvement. The Envision process concentrates on the possible in situations and focuses on ones calling, purpose and passion.
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How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk/P.I.C.K. a Partner
Geared towards dating relationships and partner-selection education. Teaches skills for thinking about romantic relationships, particularly about the importance of the connection between knowing a potential partner and how much you trust, rely on, or commit to that person. How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk/P.I.C.K. can be used in a variety of settings.
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Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II® is a powerful 70-question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II® also helps peoples gain insight into themselves and the people around them. Useful when selecting a career, choosing a work environment and relationally.
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Love U2
Love U2 emphasizes teen relationships, building relationships, and issues such as attraction, infatuation and rejection, falling in love, dating, and breaking up. Teens today live and breathe in a culture that touts casual sex and casual connections. Love U2 is a series of units that help young people acquire practical skills for emotionally healthy and ethically sound relationships. It focuses on helping teens craft a roadmap toward what they hope to achieve, not just what they must avoid. Non-religious and non-sexual content, a program designed for schools and youth organizations.
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PAIRS for PEERS
Pairs for Peers offers age appropriate educational programs for youths. Their interactive programs are offered in the classroom and in small group settings. The youths are taught skills to enhance their communication, build empathy, appreciate others, respect differences, and build self-awareness. Pairs for Peers is fun and age appropriate. Lessons include brief lectures, role-play, interactive exercises, peer coaching, imagery and journaling, as well as group discussion. Teaching knowledge and skills for healthy, fulfilled youngsters and extraordinary personal relationships.
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Partners for Students
Partners for Students was designed to give high school teenagers a first-hand understanding of the challenges in a marriage before they marry. It teaches the relationship skills essential to creating a lasting partnership. Teaches communication skills, how to manage relationship stress, and mate selection. Includes a 10-week written curriculum and audiovisual accompaniment. The Partners goal is to help people realize that when couples work together to build a healthy relationship, the joys and benefits of marriage will prevail.
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P.I.C.K. (Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge)
Designed by Dr. John Van Epp, author of FOLLOW YOUR HEART WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND, the P.I.C.K. is based upon a thorough review of research, which exhaustively and humorously describes: the major areas that predict what a person will be like in marriage, and the binding forces that must be kept in balance as a relationship grows. It is a five lesson curriculum that has an out-of-the-box Instructor Certification Program. The program also includes a 200+ page manual with lesson plans, PowerPoint, 6-hour DVD instructor course, 4 1/2-hour DVD Program presentation, and more. Christian and non-Christian versions available.
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