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Building Strong Marriages: A Tale of Two Extension Programs
Archived Session: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p45891779/. Web-based training produced by the CYFERnet Parent / Family Editorial Board, October 2007
Learn about two exciting Extension marriage education programs and the new National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model. The National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model is a research-based, theoretically grounded and best-practice informed tool to help educators design, deliver, and evaluate programs that support healthy couple and marital relationships. This strength-based model presents key patterns of thinking and behaviors associated with healthy, stable couple relationships and marriages that can be taught in an educational setting. Married and Loving It! is a marriage education program that has been taught through Extension since 2000. An overview of the program, testimonials from participants, results from research studies, and curriculum components will be presented. This curriculum has been distributed to over 40 states and five foreign countries. The Marriage Garden is an exciting new Extension curriculum that is extraordinary in its availability (downloadable lesson guides are available on the web), flexibility (appropriate for self-study, mentoring, or group discussion), and positivity (drawing on discoveries in positive psychology).
Presenters
Ted Futris, Ph.D., CFLE, Assistant Professor in Child and Family Development and an Extension Family Life Specialist in Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia; Co-Director of the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network
Barbara Petty, Ph.D., Extension Educator with the University of Idaho, serving in Bonneville County and member of the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Editorial Board
Wally Goddard, Ph.D., Professor of Family Life with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and also a member of the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Editorial Board
Resources To Support Learning
Who is NERMEN?
National Extension Marriage and Education Model Preview
Cultivating Healthy Couple and Marital Relationships: A Guide to Effective Programming