Cultivating Healthy Relationships and Marriages: An On-line Training on Effective Programming

The following presentations were developed as part of the Ohio State University Family Life Electronics Seminar on Relationship and Marital Enrichment Education. These papers were later published in The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues and included in the Cultivating Healthy Couple and Marital Relationships: A Guide to Effective Programming.

For more information about the presentations, please contact Ted Futris, Family Life Extension Specialist at the University of Georgia.

What's Love Got to Do With It? The Role of Healthy Relationships and Marriages in Promoting Healthy Children, Families and Communities
Authors: Francesca Adler-Baeder and Karen Shirer
	Presentation (40 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References Supplemental Reading 1 - National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network (NERMEN) Supplemental Reading 2 - Annotated Bibliography

A Framework for Using Research and Evaluation in Marriage Education Programming
Author: Brian Higginbotham
	Presentation (45 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References Supplemental Reading - Putting Empirical Knowledge to Work: Linking Research and Programming on Marital Quality

Offering Relationship and Marriage Education in your Community
Authors: Charlotte Shoup Olsen and Karen Shirer
	Presentation (45 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References Supplemental Reading - Offering Relationship and Marriage Education in Your Community

Youth Focused Relationships and Marriage Education
Author: Jennifer Kerpelman
	Presentation (35 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References

Marriage Education for "Stepcouples"
Author: Francesca Adler-Baeder
	Presentation (40 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References

Relationship and Marriage Education: Working with Low-resource and Culturally diverse audiences
Authors: Linda Skogrand and Karen Shirer
	Presentation (50 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References Supplemental Reading - A Process for Learning About and Creating Programs for Culturally Diverse Audiences

The Role of Commitment and Communication in Healthy Relationships
Authors: Angela Wiley and Wally Goddard
	Presentation (50 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References

Building Community Collaborations to Support Healthy and Stable Marriages
Author: Ted Futris
	Presentation (30 minutes) PowerPoint Slides Transcript with References Supplemental Reading - Community Linkages - Choices and Decisions

The development of these presentations was funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) Innovation Program. Additional funding support for the Family Life E-seminar was provided by the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the sponsors.