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Developed by the Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development and the State of Louisiana Department of Human Resources, the Exploring Relationships and Marriage with Fragile Families Curriculum emerged from the need for relationships and marriage education relevant to low-income communities, particularly those who have grown up in and been influenced by hip-hop culture.

This 8-session curriculum infuses culturally-relevant tools and techniques into interactive, skill-building activities that use real-world scenarios based on issues that are distinct to low-income communities. Focused on communication skills, conflict resolution, personal and familial goal setting, effective parenting, and planning for the future, the curriculum is relevant to mothers and fathers interested in strengthening their relationships, exploring marriage, and providing a healthy and safe environment for their children. This group usually runs once a week for eight weeks.

Week 1: Advanced Relationships Today
Week 2: Healthy Relationships
Week 3: Mind on Marriage Mountain
Week 4: Conflict Control Room
Week 5: Weather Storm Safe-Station
Week 6: Sweet Truth Talk Shop
Week 7: The Real Thing Spa
Week 8: Rings, Wings and Reasons to Wait

The basic Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a twelve hour Family Wellness program presented to large groups of families and individuals in a series of six two-hour sessions:

Parents in Healthy Families
Children in Healthy Families
Adult Relationships - Couples in Healthy Families
As Children Grow - Change in Healthy Families
Solving Family Problems
Sex, Drugs, and You - Passing on Your Values to Your Children

Each session is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions that are demonstrated and then practiced with the participants. There have been over 1,500 trained instructors presenting this course to over 500,000 families in the past nineteen years. The course is a proven model for teaching skills, enhancing healthy family interactions, and investing family members in each other and their community. This empirically validated program was developed with a focus on low-income and multi-cultural communities.

Developed by Family Wellness Associates, who have worked with culturally diverse and low income communities for over 38 years, The Couple: The Strongest Link is engaging and has a hands on approach beginning with low risk exercises using immediate support, examples and practice. The program uses a lot of role-plays where situations are scripted around different values, level of need for physical intimacy, money, issues, dealing with criticism, and having/raising children. The core sessions include communication skills, problem solving, knowing personal goals and values as well as couple goals, money management, intimacy, and paying back your community with the skills learned. This group is offered in various formats including: weekly for six weeks or three Saturdays in a row.

List of Topics:

Getting Started Together: Finding the Partner for You and Building Your Skills.
Being a Strong Team: Commitment, Personal Issues, Cooperation
Two Worlds - One Relationship: Cross Cultural Couples - Family and Ethnicity Issues.
Know What You Want: Know What You Want for Yourself and Your Relationship.
Say and Get What You Want: Working Together and Resolving Conflicts
Blowing on the Embers: Love for The Ages.

Within Our Reach is a new curriculum from PREP (Prevention Relationship Enhancement Program) designed to help couples achieve their goals in marriage, family and relationships. The curriculum is designed to build on the existing strengths of couples and add critical life and relationship skills that will help participants create safer, more stable couple relationships, and by extension, better environments for their children. Within Our Reach identifies issues that place couples at higher risk for relationship difficulties as well as significant barriers to marriage and marital success. Sites hosting this training offer it in a variety of times.

List of Topics:

Escalation and Time Out
The Speaker Listener Technicque
Stress and Relaxation in Relationships
We've Got Issues
By My Side: Supporting Each Other
Invalidation and Withdrawal
Seeing and Believing
You, Me and Us
Personal Road Mapping
Commitment Matters
Connecting with Community