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Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training
Stay Strong Stay Healthy index
Trainings
Training Description:
These FREE one-day trainings will provide information
and teaching tools child welfare workers can use in their
direct work with individuals and couples to support healthy
and stable relationships and marriages.
Participants will receive informational toolkits containing
handouts, brief activities, and other skill building resources
that focus on specific situations and issues that families
might be experiencing. These toolkits are designed to be
flexible based on different learning styles and needs. As
such, they can be adapted for use as needed and will offer
suggestions about how to handle situations better.
The training, which reinforces a “do no harm” approach
and emphasizes that safety in relationships is a priority,
highlights the following core components featured in the
National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model
(NERMEM):
- Choose — A strong, healthy, long-lasting relationship
does not just happen by chance but, instead, through
deliberate and conscientious decisions to be committed,
intentional, proactive, and strengths-focused.
- Know — To develop and sustain healthy relationships
partners must develop intimate knowledge of each other's
personal and relational needs, interests, feelings and
expectations.
- Care — Individuals who express kindness, attempt
understanding, demonstrate respect, and invest time
to be available and open to their partner are able to
maintain stable, healthy couple and marital relationships.
- Care for Self — While better health is a consequence
of healthy marriages, attending to one's physical, mental
and emotional well-being also fosters healthier couple
and marital relationships.
- Share — Being a healthy couple involves spending
meaningful time together and fostering a shared sense
of couple identity in order to sustain a close, enduring
friendship based on trust and love.
- Manage — Because problems and conflicts are a normal
part of couple relationships, healthy couples use strategies
to stay calm, contain their stress response, soothe
their partner, listen attentively, make an effort to
understand their partner's point of view, accept differences,
and ensure emotional and physical safety.
- Connect — The connections that couples develop with
their family, peers, and community offer a source of
meaning, purpose, and support that influence the health
and vitality of their couple or marital relationship.
Who Should Attend:
Child welfare workers who work directly with families
are the primary target audience, but supervisors are also
welcome to participate.
How to Register:
In Missouri:
Contact Kelly Warzinik, HRMET Project Manager at
warzinikk@missouri.edu
or 573-882-3521
Missouri Children’s Division Staff should enroll via
the Employee Learning Center (ELC)
Please note that space is limited to the first 30 who
register.
Participants will be eligible for 6.5 contact hours or
.65 CEUs. If you wish to receive CEUs, you will need to
bring a check for $10 payable to University of Missouri.
Cost:
These trainings are offered free of charge. Lunch and
snacks will be provided. Lodging will not be covered.
Training Schedule for 2011:
Missouri:
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Training is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Please note that the training itself is ONE DAY ONLY,
but to accommodate participants, trainings are scheduled
on back-to-back dates.
- May 18 – Columbia
Rm S110, Memorial Union, University of Missouri
- May 19 – Columbia
Rm S110, Memorial Union, University of Missouri
- June 21 – Jackson
Cape Girardeau County MU Extension Center, 684 West Jackson Trail
- June 22 – Jackson
Cape Girardeau County MU Extension Center, 684 West Jackson Trail
- July 27 - St. Charles
St. Charles Children's Division Office
- July 28 - St. Charles
St. Charles Children's Division Office
Iowa:
- July 21 – Training time and location to be determined
Funding for this project was provided
by the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
Administration for Children and Families, Grant: 90CT0151.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families.
Last update:
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
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