Below are the curriculums we’ve incorporated into our Optimal Health Program as well as videos featuring our Program Director, Hilary Tracy as she discusses our key topics in greater detail. In addition, at the bottom of this page you will find our reported Positive Youth Outcomes and parent letters for 6th through 12th grade for more details regarding the specific topics your young leader will be learning.
Contact our Relationship Education Team to discover which curriculums would best suit your classrooms needs.
Curriculums
Real Essentials
From the moment we are born, we start training for life. There’s sleep training, potty training, and even training wheels on our first bike. In school, teachers instruct us to master math and spelling drills and guide us through art and music lessons. In athletic pursuits, we receive specialized coaching and training to achieve our goals. All of us rely on mentorship and guidance to learn necessary skills as we become experts in our chosen professions, passions and hobbies. The Center for Relationship Education is committed to bringing foundational relationship skills to people of all ages and walks of life, in order to create understanding and effective communication in schools, workplaces, and at home.
Dibble Institute
Dibble materials teach teens and young adults how to be successful in friendships, dating, and love. Specifically, they learn:
- How to deal with emotions
- What makes a relationship healthy
- How to recognize dangerous relationships
- Effective communication
- Conflict management
- Low-risk dating strategies
- The social and emotional sides of sex
People experiencing ongoing stress or prior trauma often have difficulty regulating their emotional responses when facing challenges in school and work, life and relationships. As participants learn the skills and strategies, they can begin to take charge of themselves and their responses to what life throws at them.
Key Topics
Below we discuss the three main topics we discuss in the classroom in greater detail. Basic Needs of the Heart, Internet Safety, and My Whole Self are critical topics as we guide students into understanding their wants, needs and desires while also teaching them how to navigate emotions, peer-pressure and impulses to make good choices.
Basic Needs of the Heart
Internet Safety
My Whole Self
Positive Youth Development and Outcomes
Our Program focuses on healthy interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and through learning those skills youth report several positive outcomes such as…
- Having future-oriented goals.
- Understanding of success sequencing for poverty prevention.
- Developing communicative skills.
- Developing conflict resolution skills.
- Awareness of relationship safety.
- Intentions to avoid substance abuse.
- They have the skills to resist pressure (coercion) to participate in sexual acts.
- Affirm benefits of refraining from non-marital sex.
- Intentions to delay sexual activity.
- Tools to set sexual boundaries.