State Initiatives - Florida
Extension Point of Contact
Heidi Liss Radunovich, Ph.D.
Human Development Specialist
Personal and Family Well-Being, Focus Team Leader
Assistant Professor and Licensed Psychologist
University of Florida
Dept. of Family, Youth, & Community Sciences
P.O. Box 110310
3008 McCarty Hall D
Gainesville, FL 32611-0310
Phone: 352.273.3534 Email: hliss@ufl.edu
Current Projects/Activities
Before You Tie the Knot
Through its Before You Tie the Knot curriculum, the Personal and Family Well-Being focus team of Family and Consumer Sciences Cooperative Extension at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), has helped to support premarital education in the state of Florida. Ongoing programs based on this curriculum are being implemented in Gainesville, Jacksonville, Tampa, Palm Beach, and Spring Hill Florida. This four-part curriculum contains sessions on: Communication, Conflict Resolution, Finances, and Parenting. (Contacts: Eboni Baugh, Suzanna Smith, Heidi Radunovich; Project Period: 2007 - Present).
Education for Parents and Teens' Dating
The UF/IFAS curriculum Teening-Up with Your Adolescent contains six sessions for parents and their teens and covers topics such as discipline, risk behavior, developmental trends, and building teen assets. Although this is mainly a parenting curriculum and educational tool for youth workers, particular session topics include talking with teenagers about dating relationships, sex, drugs, and alcohol. (Contacts: Kate Fogarty, Eboni Baugh;
Project Period: 2005 - Present; http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/teeningup/about.html)
Family Album Radio
Family Album Radio, developed by IFAS Extension along with University of Florida Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences faculty, is a daily radio program on family issues. Emphasis is given to families and their members in all their diversity--young and old, single, married, and divorced, with and without children. Each program provides a snapshot of some aspect of family life and is designed to help families improve their lives. All program information is research-based and seeks to provide families with the most up-to-date, unbiased, and accurate assessment of family life issues. Broadcast partners WUFT-Classic 89 and WJUF Nature Coast 90 make this program available free of charge to public radio stations nationwide. (Contact: Suzanna Smith; Project Period: 2004 - Present; Website: http://www.familyalbumradio.org/ )
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