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Building Relationship Skills Newsletter Dear Friends – Congratulations on another school year of work well done in teaching relationship skills to our teens! As you plan summer activities for teens and consider programs for next school year, here’s a new research finding to bolster your resolve:
Remember you can sharpen your skills with this outstanding summer opportunity: get trained in a Dibble Institute research backed curriculum and GET PAID TO DO IT at the Smart Marriages 2008 Conference from July 2 - 5 in San Francisco! Ifyou are in California, even if you aren’t registered for the conference, come see us at the exhibit area of the conference and learn how we can facilitate your work. An informational flier is attached – please print a copy and share it!
Have a fun and safe summer. We will be bringing you more great new materials in the fall! Kay Reed
Our 3rd Annual ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP SKILLS LESSON PLAN SEARCH is now underway! We are seeking creative, original lesson plans dealing with any aspect of romantic relationships or marriage. Entries which are easy to teach and are based in current research are encouraged. The competition is held to help teens learn how to navigate their romantic lives and to encourage the educational leaders who teach these essential healthy relationship skills to teens. Send or FAX your entry to: The first place winner will receive a Dibble Institute gift certificate good for $500 in educational materials; second place winner will receive a gift certificate for $250; and third place winner will receive a gift certificate for $125. Runners up will receive Dibble Institute gift certificates for $50. The deadline for all entries is September 1, 2008. Judging will be completed by November, 2008. All winning entries will become the property of The Dibble Institute and will be available to the public. None of the entries will be returned. For more information, please contact Joyce Huff at (800) 695-7975 or joyce@dibbleinstitute.org. Good luck!
Upcoming Dibble Institute trainings and workshops: June 17-18 June 18-19 July 22 July 24 July 28 July 28 July 30 August 3-9 August 6-8 Sept. 26 August 3-6 November 12 – 14
The Dibble Institute for Marriage Education is a nonprofit 501c3 organization dedicated to helping young people learn skills that enable successful relationships and marriages. We serve as a nationwide advocate and resource for youth marriage education. We develop, publish, and distribute materials that help teens learn healthy relationship skills. Our research based, best practice, developmentally appropriate programs – being taught across the country – teach students the skills and knowledge that are central to building and maintaining healthy romances and, eventually, marriages. Curricula are easily adapted to classroom, church, community, agency and youth group settings and are appropriate for Family and Consumer Science, career prep and English teachers; youth agency workers; independent living coordinators; abstinence and teen pregnancy prevention workers; camp and after school program staff; Healthy Marriage, CBAE, and Head Start grantees; youth pastors; social workers; and parents. The Dibble Institute is nonpartisan and nonsectarian. Our activities are funded through sales of educational materials and services and through support from foundations, corporations and individuals.
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