Projects & Resources: Program Development

Click on Extension Resources to learn about existing resources from Extension. Here you will find information about upcoming and past training events, access a variety of publications, and identify Extension developed programs designed to support healthy couple and marital relationships. To share an Extension-developed program or resource, please email us.

In addition to identifying and promoting existing Cooperative Extension System programs and resources, NERMEN is creating new curricula and educational resources to support the development and maintenance of healthy couple and marital relationships for diverse audiences.

NEW Resource!

Cultivating Healthy Couple and Marital Relationships: A Guide to Effective Programming. (80 pages; click on title to see sample and introduction) Based on presentations from the 2006 Family Life E-Seminar and papers later published in a special issue of The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues (released May 2007; click here for description), this resource offers theoretically and empirically informed implications for designing, delivering, and evaluating relationship and marriage education programs for diverse audiences. While supplies last, order a printed/ bound copy of the guide for only $10.00 (Click here for Order Form). Questoins? Contact Ted Futris

Coming Soon!

National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model. (Available Fall 2008). This research-based, theoretically grounded and best-practice informed model will present key patterns of thinking and behaviors associated with healthy, stable couple relationships and marriages that can be taught in an educational setting. On September 15-16, 2005, members of NERMEN met to draft the preliminary model, and by Fall 2008 NERMEN will complete this publication.