Healthy Marriage/Relationship Initiative (HMI) the program educates youth about healthy relationships and the importance of marriage.  The program also helps singles and married couples gain access to marriage education, activities and services that enable them to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy relationships.

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Relationship Smarts PLUS 4.0 is a completely revised version of the evidence-based Relationship Smarts PLUS 3.0 curriculum that includes brand-new subjects. It is designed to help teens learn how to make wise choices about relationships, dating, partners, sex, and more. New content keeps this curriculum current by covering timely topics that are important to today’s teens:

• Sexual consent​
• Sexting
• Sexual assault
• Drugs and alcohol – and their impact on relationships
• Cyberbullying

Relationship Smarts PLUS 4.0 integrates relationship education with powerful learning strategies:

• A realistic, relevant context for learning.
• An appeal to personal aspirations for love, intimacy, and successful relationships.
• New motivations for behavioral change.
• Empowerment through self-awareness, relationship knowledge, and practical skills.

This curriculum is delivered through activities that are informative, fun, and affirmative. The workbook helps teens apply curriculum concepts to their own lives. Parent-Teen activities for each lesson stimulate conversations and connections with trusted adults.

This curriculum is delivered through activities that are informative, fun, and affirmative. The workbook helps teens apply curriculum concepts to their own lives. Parent-Teen activities for each lesson stimulate conversations and connections with trusted adults.
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Relationship Smarts PLUS 4.0 uses popular media and lively activities to engage both males and females in learning. Key topics include:

• Self-awareness: Personal strengths/weaknesses, past influences, goal setting, friendship, peer pressure, maturity, clarifying values, self-regulation.
• Developing healthy relationships: Attraction, building blocks of positive relationships, how to assess relationships, realistic love, low-risk dating, “deciding vs. sliding.”
• Problems, warnings, and dangerous relationships: Break-ups and broken hearts, unhealthy and abusive behaviors, ways to exit safely, boundaries, dating violence, sexual assault.
• Communication and conflict: Danger signs, time outs, anger regulation, the Speaker-Listener Technique, problem-solving.
• Intimacy and sexual decisions: Pacing relationships, what intimacy means, sex in the context of relationships, boundaries, myths of pregnancy, risky situations, and sexual consent, refusal skills, how unplanned pregnancy affects a child.
• Updates to the Success Sequence: how the order of school, commitment, and babies impacts your future
• Social media: The impact of “constant connection,” sexting realities and risks, online porn, personal polices on using social media.