Building Strong Marriages: A Tale of Two Extension Programs

from October 2007

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Learn about two exciting Extension marriage education programs and the new National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model through this free online training. 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 by one of the co-authors Barbara Petty. This curriculum has been distributed to over 40 states and five foreign countries.

The Marriage Garden is an exciting new Extension curriculum. It 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).

Intended Audience (Benefits)

This training is intended for parent educators who want to apply these two curricula in their own work.

Presenters

Ted Futris, Ph.D., CFLE is an Assistant Professor in Child and Family Development and an Extension Family Life Specialist in Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia. Ted serves as Co-Director of the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network, a multi-state Extension team focused on developing resources and best practices for Extension work in marriage education. Ted and his wife, Deena, have been married 10 years and have two sons.

Barbara Petty, Ph.D. is an Extension Educator with the University of Idaho, serving in Bonneville County and member of the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Editorial Board. She has a Masters degree in Human Development and the Family and doctorate in Education. She has been married to her best friend Terry for 30 years. They have three children and one dog.

Wally Goddard, Ph.D. is a professor of family life with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and also a member of the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Editorial Board. He is well-known for his creative programs, successful books, and his public television series. He and his wife Nancy have been married almost 36 years.

Materials

Who is NERMEN?
National Extension Marriage and Education Model Preview
Cultivating Healthy Couple and Marital Relationships: A Guide to Effective Programming

Agenda

System Requirements

Participants need the following to participate in this online "Connect" training:

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Archived Session

http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p45891779/


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