Fwd: Special Workshops on RE and Filial Methods + AFREM Community Meeting

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Special Workshops on Relationship Enhancement® and Filial Methods

Co-Sponsored by

National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® (NIRE) and Association for Filial and Relationship Enhancement® Methods (AFREM)

Held in Conjunction with the 2014 AFREM Community Sharing and Connecting Meeting

April 25-26, 2014 in Bethesda, MD

Community Sharing and Connecting Meeting

Facilitator: Robert Brown, Member of the Board of IDEALS, the larger organization supporting AFREM and NIRE

Everyone with an interest in Relationship Enhancement Methods, Filial and Child-Centered Play Therapy is encouraged to attend this meeting! We want to know you more, hear about your work and passion for these approaches, and help you connect with others. Our purpose is to exchange ideas and share in each others’ enthusiasm for helping persons in need through RE, Filial and CCPT. Participants will have an opportunity to share what is working for them and excites and motivates them, including how they are using these various models, what innovations or modifications they have found useful, and how these programs are being used in the US and other countries. Please come and let us know you, while seeking support and connections for your work and helping us all expand our expertise in applying the methods.

Organized Friday Night Dutch Treat Dinner

This year’s traditional “Dutch Treat” dinner will be held on Friday night April 25. This well attended event always proves to be a fun time to connect and relax with friends and colleagues around the dinner table. Please join us if you can! Details below. And please RSVP so we can properly plan with the restaurant.

CE Workshops

In conjunction with AFREM’s annual meeting, the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® (NIRE) and AFREM are co-sponsoring three special workshops on Friday April 25 and Saturday April 26.

Friday will include two half-day workshops. The morning workshop is entitled “The Young Child as Person: The Development of Healthy Conscience.”

The Friday afternoon workshop is entitled “Group Filial Therapy.”

Saturday will feature two 1.5 hour workshops. The first workshop is entitled “The Neurobiology of Empathy.”

The second 1.5 hour workshop is entitled “Let Me Walk a Mile in Your Shoes—With Your Corns and Calluses: Using Empathy for Context to Help Clients Get Unstuck.”

Each Friday workshop qualifies for 3 CE credits.

Each Saturday workshop qualifies for 1.5 CE credits.

Registration

Registration information may be found below.

AFREM Special Workshops Registration Form

Friday Workshops

The Young Child as Person: The Development of Healthy Conscience

Presenters: Maryhelen Snyder, Ph.D. and Nancy Cochran, MA, CAS, LMHC

Friday, April 25, 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 3 CE credits

This very practical book describes in anecdotal detail and with theoretical clarity the foundations and practices that enhance the development of conscience in young children. All the ideas and premises of this book are congruent with Filial Therapy - largely because both approaches are grounded in Rogerian insights and practices.

Mel Snyder will present the three basic convictions about the young child that are at the heart of what the authors call "the justice culture."  She will also clarify what is meant by active understanding, enabling a child to function and constructive caring.

Nancy Cochran who is currently active in working with the young child in school and family settings, will discuss case examples and practical applications.

Note: The revised edition of the book by this title (authored primarily by Martha Snyder) will be in print and available from Watermelon Mountain Press (at Amazon) and at the workshop.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. To learn the rationale and experiential support for the three basic convictions about children that inform the "Justice Culture"; to learn and be able to illustrate the basic aspects of a justice culture that is co-created with children.
  2. To learn what is (and what is not) meant by "active understanding"; to be able to apply this practice to real life situations.
  3. Participants will be better able to identify and therefore provide empathy and “active understanding” with young children by discussing examples as seen and demonstrated in video examples of CCPT sessions.

Maryhelen Snyder, Ph.D. has been a mental health professional for 40 years, specializing much of that time in Relationship Enhancement therapy. She has authored many professional articles and book chapters and been an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico Medical School. She is also a poet. Her recent book "Sun in an Empty Room" has a similar focus to her therapy work, which is wildly celebrative of human beings and human possibilities.

Nancy H. Cochran, MA, CAS, LMHC is an adjunct assistant professor for the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee, and Treatment Coordinator for the REACH (Relationship Enhancement and Child Harmony) Project.  She is certified as a Child-Centered Play Therapy Supervisor by the National Institute for Relationship Enhancement (NIRE) and regularly provides post-masters supervision in Child-Centered Play Therapy. Nancy is co-author with her husband Jeff of The Heart of Counseling: A Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships (Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2006) and co-author with her husband Jeff and Dr. Bill Nordling of Child Centered Play Therapy: A Practical Guide to Developing Therapeutic Relationships with Children (Wiley, 2010). 

Group Filial Therapy

Presenter: Louise Guerney, Ph.D.

Friday, April 25, 2:00 - 5:15 p.m. 3 CE credits

This workshop will present a description of group filial therapy; the advantages of working with a group; added complexities in working with filial groups; a brief summary of relevant supportive research; the role of the therapist in leading a filial play group; and a live role-play demonstration of a filial play group with audience members taking on roles of parents in a group.

Learning objectives: Participants attending this workshop will be able to:

  1. Describe criteria for setting up group filial therapy
  2. Describe the advantages and complexities of group filial therapy
  3. Describe how to structure group filial therapy to maximize parental learning

Dinner, Friday Night, 6:30 p.m. Dutch Treat.

Following the Friday afternoon workshop, those who are interested will go out together as a group for dinner for fun, relaxation and an opportunity to connect with friends and colleagues. If you are interested in joining the group for dinner: Please be certain to sign up on the Registration Form. Advance payment is not necessary, but we do need to be able to give an accurate count to the restaurant.

Saturday Workshops

The Neurobiology of Empathy

Presenter: Maryhelen Snyder, Ph.D.

Saturday, April 26, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. 1.5 CE Credits

Brain research continues to support and qualify and quantify the amazing phenomenon of human empathy, the capacity that is at the very heart of the Relationship Enhancement family of therapies. In this workshop, I shall give an overview of that research to date. The workshop will include didactic, discussion, and practice components.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the basics of "interpersonal neurobiology" on the two levels of (a) brain and body findings that clarify what is happening on a neurophysiological level when we empathize and (b) research regarding what happens in the therapy or training session that transforms subjective experience and close relationships.
  2. Apply these findings - and match the subjective (phenomenological) experience of attunement to self and other with the brain discoveries that support the subjective phenomena.
  3. Distinguish different therapeutic practices and approaches in regard to their alignment with neurophysiological research.

Maryhelen Snyder, Ph.D. has been a mental health professional for 40 years, specializing much of that time in Relationship Enhancement therapy. She has authored many professional articles and book chapters and been an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico Medical School. She is also a poet. Her recent book "Sun in an Empty Room" has a similar focus to her therapy work, which is wildly celebrative of human beings and human possibilities.

Let Me Walk a Mile in Your Shoes—With Your Corns and Calluses: Using Empathy for Context to Help Clients Get Unstuck

Presenter: Mary Ortwein, MS, LMFT

Saturday, April 26, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.   1.5 CE Credits

Empathy is one of the Relationship Enhancement® therapist’s most valuable tools. Yet sometimes empathy does not quite work to move a client or client couple to a place where something new is possible. In this workshop you will learn how to expand empathy to include context in order to move people past blocks. Contextual empathy includes entering into someone’s worldview and working from the inside. During this workshop participants will learn a rationale for contextual empathy, observe how it works, and practice using it.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify when and how to use contextual empathy in client scenarios
  2. Practice the use of contextual empathy
  3. Apply contextual empathy to a current client situation

Mary Ortwein, MS, LMFT is Founder of IDEALS for Families and Communities (IFC) in Frankfort, Kentucky. She is the co-author with Bernard Guerney of nine Relationship Enhancement® curricula, including Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML).

Community Sharing and Connecting Meeting

Saturday, April 26, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. No CE Credit.

Facilitator: Robert Brown, Member of the Board of IDEALS, the larger organization supporting AFREM and NIRE

Everyone with an interest in Relationship Enhancement Methods, Filial and Child-Centered Play Therapy is encouraged to attend this meeting! We want to know you more, hear about your work and passion for these approaches, and help you connect with others. Our purpose is to exchange ideas and share in each others’ enthusiasm for helping persons in need through RE, Filial and CCPT. Participants will have an opportunity to share what is working for them and excites and motivates them, including how they are using these various models, what innovations or modifications they have found useful, and how these programs are being used in the US and other countries. Please come and let us know you, while seeking support and connections for your work and helping us all expand our expertise in applying the methods.

Registration Information

Location: The AFREM annual meeting and workshops will be held at the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® (NIRE) conference suite on the Roof level of the Topaz House at 4400 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD. The Topaz House is located six miles from the White House and Georgetown. NIRE is less than three blocks from the Bethesda metro stop.

Parking: Parking on Friday may be available at the Topaz House’s underground garage on a first come first served basis. There is a public parking lot at East-West Highway and Waverly Street, a block and a half from the Topaz House. Be certain to bring plenty of quarters for the public parking lot. The cost is $.75 per hour in long term parking; plan on 9 hours, i.e., $6.75. [Be prepared! Parking rates may have gone up!] Parking is free on Saturday. On Saturday parking should be easier at Topaz House, and is free at the public parking lot.

Schedule: Each Friday CE workshop will be 3 hours long. There will be one 15 minute break during each workshop. Each Saturday CE workshop will be 1.5 hours long. There will be one 30 minute break between those two workshops. The AFREM Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon beginning at 2:00 p.m.

Refreshments: Starting at 8:40 a.m., and available all day, each day, there will be a sidebar with fruit, coffee and tea, soda, and snacks.

CE Credits: IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IDEALS/NIRE maintains responsibility for each program and its content. IDEALS/NIRE also is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to provide continuing education for National Certified Counselors. NBCC Provided #5560. IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Maryland State Board of Social Workers to offer Category 1 continuing education programs for social workers. NIRE also is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. APT Approved Provider 95-009. IDEALS/NIRE maintains responsibility for the program.

Each half-day workshop on Friday will earn attendees 3 CE credits. Each Saturday workshop will earn attendees 1.5 CE credits. CE credit is not available for the AFREM Annual Meeting.

A Certificate will be issued to you attesting to your completion of each workshop attended and documenting the CE credits you have earned.

Cost: The fee for each 3-hour workshop is $60. The fee for each 1.5 hour workshop is $30.    The fee for currently enrolled, full-time graduate students is $10.00 for each workshop, or $30 for all four workshops.

Lunch: Lunch each day is the responsibility of each participant, though arrangements will be made to provide lunch on Saturday prior to the AFREM Community and Sharing Meeting for those who wish. The cost will be $10.00 per person. Please see the registration form below for details.

Optional Friday Night Dinner (Dutch Treat): Many participants at past AFREM annual meeting workshops have enjoyed each other’s company over dinner at a restaurant in Bethesda. We will do the same this year, on Friday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. While prepayment is not necessary, it is necessary for planning purposes to know who plans to attend, so please indicate on the registration form that you would like to attend the dinner so that we can make appropriate arrangements and reserve table space for our group. Some participants may also choose to go out to dinner on Saturday evening, but that will not be a formally organized event.

Travel: For those coming by air: NIRE is 15 miles from Washington National, 22 miles from Baltimore-Washington, and 18 miles from Dulles Airports. For those coming by car: NIRE is two miles south of the Connecticut Avenue exit or the Wisconsin Avenue exit of the Beltway (I-495).

Municipal parking is very close and is free on Saturday (at Waverly and East-West Highway). Be certain to bring plenty of quarters to feed the meter for parking on Friday. The cost is $.75 per hour in long term parking; plan on 9 hours, i.e., $6.75. Parking is free on Saturday. All registrants will be sent a map detailing how to reach NIRE.

Accommodations: Discounted hotel rooms are available at the Bethesda Court Hotel. To secure the discounted rate, please call 1-800-874-0050 and ask for the “NIRE” rate, which for 2014 is $129 per night Thursday through Sunday, plus a $15.00 per night fee for parking. This discounted rate is available until the hotel reaches a certain point of capacity for the respective dates, so you are advised to make reservations as early as possible. Information about alternative accommodations can be provided when you register.

For Further Information about arrangements, call Chriss Stanton, at 301-680-8977.

Registration: 

To register, please

(1) call NIRE at (our new number) 301-680-8977

(2) send your Registration Form by fax to (our new fax number) 502-226-7088

or (3) mail your Registration Form and check to (our new Administrative Office address) IDEALS/NIRE, Admin. Office, 306 West Main Street, #507, Frankfort, KY 40601. 

Caution: Do not send credit card information via email.

Registration Form

AFREM Special Workshops Registration Form

We look forward to seeing you there!

Rob Scuka, Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Institute of Relationship Enhancement®

 



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Fwd: CoupleTalk - March 19, 2014

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http://www.CoupleTalk.com

- CoupleTalk – highly praised TOOB now available at 50% Discount
I am always excited when another TOOB program is launched.  You know, a TOOB – a Teach Out Of the Box, (NO training required) program.  And this one, CoupleTalk, is really special and especially needed.  It is special because it is based on Bernard Guerney’s highly regarded Relationship Enhancement program and its updated version, Mastering the Mysteries of Love, coauthored by Mary Ortwein.  This means you can open the box and begin teaching this research-and-skills-based program in your church or community.  This one is especially needed, and so often requested, because it integrates Christian support along with the teaching of marriage and relationship skills.  Marriage Educators that have used it are over-the-moon in their praise.  They say that the program developers, Don and Alexy Flecky, have created a highly interactive, easy-to-teach, video-based program that works like magic with any size group or that a couple can use at home with no instructor.  Couple exercises are emphasized with a countdown clock to integrate practice time into the videos.  

I am getting this out to you now because there is a limited time discount of 50% off good only until March 31st.  

And, to share with you what people are saying, here are just a few of the endorsements:

"Hands down the best video-based program for couples!" Jason Krafsky, author of Facebook and Your Marriage and Before I Do, and Director of Communications and Marketing at Healthy Relationships California

“In a class by itself! These are not talking heads - I promise! I have seen a lot of programs that don’t have much effect on improving marriages. What Don and Alex have put together is different! The couples who go through CoupleTalk have a stronger relationship with one another and with God! They don’t just learn short lessons on communication&hellip couples learn to connect with one another at a deeper level, for a lifetime.”
- Dave Carder, MFT, Author of Torn Asunder and Pastor of Counseling Ministries at First Evangelical Free Church, Fullerton, CA

“We had over 50 couples show up. They really enjoyed it, but it also stretched them. They felt like they had been through something really important for their relationship. You’d be doing your families and couples and church a favor by bringing it into your community. It will create awesome marriages!”
- Pastor Gene Maynard, Senior Pastor, Bayside Church, Auburn, CA

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Fwd: April Webinar: The Greatest Gift to a Child: A Healthy Parental Relationship

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The Greatest Gift to a Child:
A Healthy Parental Relationship

Social Science research has taught us a great deal about how healthy and stable couple relationships matter to children. High rates of unplanned childbearing among teens and young adults are generating more gender, racial and income inequality plus producing profoundly unequal outcomes for children.

Webinar attendees will examine:
• the impact of the parental relationship on children,
• the benefits a healthy parental union brings to a child and
• how educators can guide parents to create and sustain a healthy, parental relationship in today’s culture.

Presenter: Dixie Zittlow, Director of Outreach, The Dibble Institute

Audience: Fatherhood, Marriage, Head Start Program Directors, Child Support Services Caseworkers and Directors, Tribal Fatherhood personnel, Tribal Head Start Caseworkers and Program Directors, Community Action Program personnel, Community Program Directors and Facilitators and anyone who works with teens and young adults.

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Fwd: Upcoming Child-Centered Play Therapy Workshop - April 11-12, 2014

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Subject: Upcoming Child-Centered Play Therapy Workshop - April 11-12, 2014
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Child-Centered Play Therapy Workshop

April 11-12, 2014

Workshop Leader: William Nordling, Ph.D., Member of NIRE's Training Faculty

Location: Bethesda, MD.

Workshop Description: The purpose of this two-day skills training workshop is to provide participants a comprehensive introduction to the Child-Centered Play Therapy Model and to teach participants the principles and techniques for conducting all aspects of Child-Centered Play Therapy with children, from intake through termination.

Intensive Supervised Skills Practice: The workshop emphasizes the building of participants' therapeutic skills through a process that combines lecture, demonstration and supervised practice via participant role-plays and mock play sessions. The number of participants is limited in order to ensure frequent individual supervision when participants practice aspects of the child-centered play therapy process.

Workshop Objectives: Participants will learn how to:

  • Identify the parameters for the appropriate use of play therapy
  • Quickly establish rapport and a strong therapeutic relationship with the child
  • Create the recommended therapeutic atmosphere
  • Facilitate the child's mastery of thoughts and feelings to help eliminate immature and symptomatic behaviors
  • Set and enforce limits in an effective and therapeutic way
  • Identify the major stages of play therapy and accompanying themes
  • Communicate to parents about play therapy and their child's progress and help them and the child terminate therapy

Continuing Education: Upon completion, participants receive 13 CE credits for completing this workshop.

IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education programs specific to play therapy.  APT Preferred Provider 95-009.
IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  IDEALS maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
DEALS/NIRE is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. NBCC provider #5560.
IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education programs for social workers.
IDEALS/NIRE maintains responsibility for the program and adhering to the appropriate guidelines required by the respective organizations.

Fee: $265 (includes packet of materials)

For further information, please visit our website at www.nire.org.

To register, please download a registration form at www.nire.org or call NIRE at 301-680-8977.



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Fwd: 7 Stages of Marriage Survey - 3/13/14

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You know that helping with marriage and relationship surveys helps us all help not only the researchers but also ourselves.  Moves the whole field forward.  
They’re also fun to take — make us think about our relationships and just taking these quick surveys often offers new insights as we puzzle about what the researchers are looking for.  Please take the survey and then forward this email to your lists. - diane  

The 7 stages of Marriage Survey
We are looking for participants to take the 7 Stages of Marriage questionnaire to help us move forward with the next step in our research.   Click the link below to learn more about the study and begin the questionnaire. For questions about the study or to support our work by adding the survey link to your website, please contact Dr. Rita DeMaria at DrRita@RitaDeMaria.com.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RitaDeMaria


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Fwd: Young, Aspiring, and In Love; Free Book; Tip Sheet; Logic Model; PREP Grantee Webinar

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Healthy Relationship News – February 2014
THE LATEST
  • High Aspirations Among the New Majority Minority
  • Love, Actually: Teaching Generation Y the Basics of a Strong Relationship
  • Young And In Love? Thank Mom And Dad, At Least A Little
  • Candy and flowers: Romance alive and well among young couples
DIBBLE NEWS
  • Learn more about Dibble! Giving Library Premier
  • Celebrate Spring with The Art of Loving Well
NEWS YOU CAN USE
  • Dating Safety Tip Sheet for Parents
  • Healthy Relationship Website for Girls
  • InBrief: The Science of Neglect
  • Money Habitudes® Logic Model

SECOND WEDNESDAY WEBINAR – March 12
    UP YOUR GAME!
   Strengthen Your PREP Adult Preparation Topics Using Evidence Based, Adaptable Materials

FUNDING STREAMS
THE LATEST
High Aspirations Among the New Majority Minority

Despite steep declines, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reports that nearly half of African-American teen girls (45%) and 40% of Latinas get pregnant at least once before age 20—more than one and a half times the national average.

Data presented in this Survey Says are from the Inner City Truth 3 (ICT3) Report, based on a survey conducted by MEE Productions Inc. Read the full survey here.
Ed. Note: Of most interest to readers of this newsletter is the statistic shown above – most young people, aspire to marriage, but often lack confidence and skills.
Love, Actually
Teaching Generation Y the Basics of a Strong Relationship

I RECENTLY OVERHEARD two students talking in a dining hall at the university where I teach. “Yeah, I might get married, too,” one confided. “But not until I’m at least 30 and have a career.” Then she grinned. “Until then? I’m going to party it up.”

This young woman was practically following a script. An increasing number of studies show that many millennials want to marry — someday.

Generation Y is postponing marriage until, on average, age 29 for men and 27 for women. College-educated millennials in particular view it as a “capstone” to their lives rather than as a “cornerstone,” according to a report whose sponsors include the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

Yet for all of their future designs on marriage, many of them may not get there. Their romance operandi — hooking up and hanging out — flouts the golden rule of what makes marriages and love work: emotional vulnerability.
Young And In Love?
Thank Mom And Dad, At Least A Little

Teenagers' relationships with their parents have a small but measurable impact on their romantic relationships up to 15 years later, according to researchers at the University of Alberta. People who had a tumultuous relationship with their mom and dad in their teens were more likely to face heartache down the road. And those who felt close to their parents during adolescence tended to feel more emotionally and physically satisfied in their adult romantic relationships.

The researchers drew their conclusions from data in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. This study followed 3,000 Americans from middle and high school up until they were in their early 30s. The findings were published in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. (NPR, 2/10/2014)
Candy and Flowers…
Romance alive and well among young couples

Don’t let the naysayers wilt the Valentine's Day flowers: Most young men and women in long-term relationships say they are very satisfied — and very much in love — with each other.
In a world dominated by news of hookups and breakups, these results offer a pleasant surprise, said sociologists Elizabeth Wildsmith and Jennifer Manlove, who recently published their findings in a brief for Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center.

Young couples gave high marks to their relationships regardless of whether they were married, cohabiting or dating, the researchers said. “That’s very encouraging,” Ms. Wildsmith said.

The data come from a unique source — roughly 1,500 heterosexual couples, ages 18 to 26, who were part of the “Romantic Pairs” subgroup in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health), which has followed the same massive group of youths since high school.
DIBBLE NEWS
Our Giving Library Video Premiere!

The Dibble Institute is delighted to premiere a new video from The Giving Library!

The Giving Library, a project of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, helps donors give wisely. Dibble is pleased to have been selected for The Giving Library website. We are grateful to all at the Foundation for the gift of such a wonderful video.

To watch Executive Director, Kay Reed, discussing the importance and effectiveness of relationship skills education for teens and young adults around the country, click here.

And, please join us in our mission with a donation!
Celebrate Spring with The Art of Loving Well

It’s easier than ever to engage young people in learning to love well. To celebrate Spring, we will include one free copy of the acclaimed anthology Art of Loving Well with every order over $100. Just try to put it down!
NEWS YOU CAN USE
Dating Safety Tip Sheet for Parents

Just in time for Spring! From our friends at Child Builders, Houston, a tip sheet to share with parents based on Relationship Smarts PLUS.
Healthy Relationship Website for Girls

“The relationships you have as a teen are a very special and important part of your life. That’s why a fight with a close friend can hurt so much. It’s also why it can be so frustrating when the people who should know you best — like your family — don’t seem to understand you. This section of girlshealth.gov can give you skills for building strong and healthy relationships of all types.”
InBrief: The Science of Neglect

Extensive biological and developmental research shows significant neglect—the ongoing disruption or significant absence of caregiver responsiveness—can cause more harm to a young child’s development than overt physical abuse, including subsequent cognitive delays, impairments in executive functioning, and disruptions of the body’s stress response. This edition of the InBrief series explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.

Ed Note: Great resource for Healthy Choices, Healthy Relationships brain lesson and for Relationship Smarts Plus/Love Notes parenting lessons.
Money Habitudes Logic Model

Are you including Money Habitudes 2 in a grant? Here is a new logic model (opens in Excel). Add your own program details to the template!
UP YOUR GAME!
Strengthen Your PREP Adult Preparation Topics Using Proven, Adaptable Materials

Now that you have figured out how to deliver excellent, evidence based pregnancy prevention instruction, how about your adult preparation topics?
Join PREP Pregnancy Prevention Grant sub-awardees to learn how they are using Dibble evidence based materials to successfully teach the Adult Preparation topics.
Learn how to:
  • select the program that best engages your audience and
  • adapt the material to meet your needs for time and topic.
Presenters include:
Ted Futris, Ph.D. University of Georgia and Felicia Tuggle, Georgia PREP
Lisa Smith, Teen Mom/Teen Health ClinicUniversity of Utah Adolescent Services
Robyn McLymont and Delano Grant, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Manager, OIC of South Florida
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
, 4:00 pm Eastern/
1:00 pm Pacific
Duration: 60 minutes 
Cost: Free!
FUNDING STREAMS
Pregnancy Prevention Research and Demonstration

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Adolescent Health, has announced the availability of funds for teenage pregnancy research and demonstration projects. A two year grant, for up to $890,000 per year, will be funded. Letters of intent are due March 21st, and applications on April 24th.

The purpose of this announcement is to work with communities with high teen pregnancy rates to develop innovative strategies for preventing teen pregnancy in populations/areas with demonstrated need. These could include high-risk, vulnerable, and culturally under-represented youth populations, and/or youth residing in areas with high birth or teen pregnancy rates. The successful applicant is expected to bring together a team in each selected community made up of representatives from various sectors to develop a strategy or prevention framework to address teen pregnancy prevention in their individual community.
Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence
Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women

The purpose of the National Institute of Justice grants program is to encourage and support research, development, and evaluation to improve criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding of research and evaluation related to violence against women in the areas of teen dating violence, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. Research proposed may be focused at the state, local, tribal, federal, juvenile justice policy and/or practice level.
Deadline: 4/25/2014
Support for Child Health and Education Initiatives in California and Washington
Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Foundation is dedicated to transforming the public education and child welfare systems in California and Washington so that all youth can learn and achieve in school and life. The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that address the following priorities: The Education Systems category invests in coordinated programs, partnerships, and research and policy analysis that help students to learn and achieve in school by developing effective education systems.

The Vulnerable Youth in Child Welfare category partners with child welfare agencies to help children and youth in foster care to realize positive outcomes in the following focus areas: safety, permanency, well being, education opportunities, and youth, family and community engagement. Letters of inquiry may be submitted at any time. Visit the Foundation’s website to learn more about the Foundation’s funding priorities.
Innovative Youth Programs
Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation

Innovative programs or services are defined as "uncommon, untested or otherwise unconventional." In other words, RMYF funds programs or services that are outside of current customary practices. We support programs or services that are designed to help underprivileged youth reach their full potential.

The foundation awards grants of $25,000 to untested youth programs that lead to breakthrough results in supporting underprivileged youth in the greater metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Madison, WI, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.

Pre-applications are due April 30, and invited applications will be due August 30.
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Please come, or pass this along to others!

Also, please send this out to any list serves you may be on.

Mastering the Mysteries of Love

Weekend Workshops for Couples

The National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® is offering the Mastering the Mysteries of Love version of the Relationship Enhancement® Program for couples in addition to the classic version of the RE Program.

Upcoming dates:

  • April 5-6, 2014 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Carrie Hansen, LCSW-C
  • June 7-8, 2014 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Carrie Hansen, LCSW-C
  • July 19-20, 2014 - Mastering the Mysteries of Love with Carrie Hansen, LCSW-C

All workshops are held in Bethesda, MD.

Cost is $450 per couple.

Further information can be found at www.nire.org.

Research: The RE Program and Mastering the Mysteries of Love is backed by 35 years of empirical research validating its effectiveness. In addition, an award-winning meta-analytic study involving thousands of couples and over a dozen approaches, demonstrated that RE clients showed far more powerful improvement effects than clients in any of the other interventions for couples or families with which it was compared.

Description: Couples spend two days learning 10 practical skills that deepen connection and empower them to resolve current and future problems on their own.

The skills you and your partner learn will help you:

  • establish a constructive, cooperative atmosphere for resolving difficult relationship issues
  • foster increased openness and trust
  • reduce defensiveness, anger and withdrawal
  • express your deepest feelings, concerns and desires openly, honestly and safely
  • nurture deepened caring and compassion
  • increase love and affection
  • create solutions to conflicts at their deepest levels
  • successfully implement agreed-to solutions and behavioral changes

The weekend program usually numbers between 4-10 couples in order to maintain a more intimate atmosphere. It also features significant time for private couples' exercises and dialogues, which part of the time are facilitated by trained coaches.

The program is non-residential and meets on Saturday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Information on discounted hotel room rates for those visiting from out of town are available upon registration. Snacks and beverages are provided; participants have lunch on their own.

For further information, or to register, please call NIRE at 301-680-8977.

Please note new contact info below:

Mail:
NIRE - Administrative Office
306 West Main Street #507
Frankfort, KY 40601

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deannadavis427 posted: "I did something today I have never done before.  I trusted my GPS.  I turned it on, listened to its guidance, and followed its directions.  I didn't double-check it before leaving on my trip.  I didn't argue with it as I drove.  I didn't constantly verify"
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Learning To Trust My GPS – And Jesus Too

by deannadavis427

I did something today I have never done before.  I trusted my GPS.  I turned it on, listened to its guidance, and followed its directions.  I didn't double-check it before leaving on my trip.  I didn't argue with it as I drove. google map app I didn't constantly verify that it, and I, were on the correct path.   I didn't worry about two or three turns ahead.  I just listened for the next one and took it as it came.

I trusted and followed... and got where I needed to go.  And it was so refreshing to be able to relax along the way and enjoy the journey I was on.

Oh, I've used my GPS countless times in the past and find it very helpful in getting from one place to another.  I am not a Luddite or helplessly old school.  But I'm afraid I am THAT person.  You know THAT person.  Me and my GPS have a much more complicated relationship than we should.  I talk to her. I frequently question that she knows what she is doing.  Because I am never really sure she'll be able to get me to where I need to go safely and in a timely manner. Because I kind of like to make my own plans.  Because, while I'm not a control freak…let's just say I often prefer to reduce the number of people and things I am dependent on.  Therefore, I tend to do my route planning ahead of time so that, even though I take her with me everywhere, I don't actually need her.  Even though getting me from point A to point B is her job.  Even though trusting her would make my life so much easier.

Today, Jesus let me know this is how I treat Him sometimes.  Sigh.

Years ago I told Him that I would let Him lead…and that I would follow.  In fact, we've spent years together, with me learning to hear and listen to His voice.  With me learning to trust that He is more than capable of handling the details of my heart and life.  With me learning to believe that He really, really loves me and wants the best for me…that He knows exactly where we are going and how to get there…and that He is very willing and able to take care of me along the way.

Yet there are so many times I try to orchestrate my life, my spiritual life even, so that I don't really need Him.  So that functionally, He isn't leading, but just accompanying me as I do my best to manage it all on my own.

And I realized how very tired that has been making me.  Basically, I've been trying to do my job and His at the same time.  And trying to do His job is like…well…it's like trying to be God when you are not.  Those shoes are too big for anyone to fill.  It is not only exhausting, it is a recipe for getting so very lost along the way.

Again…sigh.

While not a perfect metaphor, (of course there are times we should look ahead, be aware of our location, make plans, etc) this day, my traveling experience was a gift.  It showed me something of my heart and practices - and invited me to do things differently.  It showed me that if I am willing to trust Him, I can learn to relax along the way and enjoy the journey I'm on.

John 10:27 "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." - Jesus

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