Evidence-Based Curricula

Relationship Skills for Love, Life, and Work

For a growing number of adolescents and young adults, unplanned pregnancy, single parenting, and troubled relationships derail personal goals. Love Notes SRA was created for this vulnerable audience, some already pregnant or parenting. In 13 lessons, they discover—often for the first time—how to make wise choices about relationships, sexuality, pregnancy, partnering, and more.

Version 4.0 includes brand new and updated content important to today’s youth, including sex trafficking prevention, technology in relationships, navigating relationships in the digital age, online porn, sexual assault, consent—and their impact on relationships. Love Notes 4.0 SRA includes the evidence-based content with supplemental materials that allow facilitators to go deeper on topics that are meaningful to young people.

The Dibble Institute

https://www.dibbleinstitute.org

Mind Matters by The Dibble Institute

Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience

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 in Mind Matters, they can begin to take charge of themselves and their responses to what life throws at them. Participants learn to address their physical, relational, and mental health needs.

In addition, Mind Matters’ teaches individuals proven ways to deal with stressful, perhaps adverse, life experiences using innovative methods based on current research and neuroscience.

The Dibble Institute

https://www.dibbleinstitute.org

TYRO Youth Program by The Ridge Project, Inc.

TYRO Youth

TYRO® Youth is an award-winning, best practice curriculum that equip teens to thrive in today’s society. This intensive character development program teaches participants responsibility, self-regulation, ethics, leadership and self-control.

TYRO YOUTH

https://tyroyouth.com

Choosing the BEST WAY

Choosing the Best

https://www.choosingthebest.com

Choosing the Best WAY:

a complete, easy-to-use program

Leader guide (see picture below) details teaching objectives, outline, plan, and alternative activities. Conveniently features student curriculum on each page.
Video vignettes for each lesson
Student manual with interactive exercises and parent-student interviews
Colorful posters to reinforce healthy choices and positive behavior
Handy binder for easy storage
Title V approved

5th Edition Now Available!

For Lower Middle School – 6th Grade

Down-to-earth and hands-on, these 6 sessions keep students involved through self-discovery and interviews with friends, parents or guardians, and class partners. Videos that open each lesson lead naturally to discussion. This lively curriculum creates the foundation for an informed commitment to healthy relationships. The 45-minute sessions cover:

Identifying the Risks
This lesson presents students with facts about the risks of teen pregnancy and STDs, as well as the emotional effects often not discussed. From this study, students see the need for compassion.
Choosing the Best Way
This lesson’s study reinforces the risks of sexual activity while also emphasizing the positive benefits of sexual delay. Students discuss healthy choices, and have the chance to reflect upon how choosing to delay sexual activity can benefit their health and future.
Learning How to Say “NO”
Once students choose sexual delay, they need tools to help them resist pressures from friends and others to become sexually active. Students learn how to set boundaries, speak up, and be assertive through teaching and role-plays. Students also learn the importance of courage in sticking with their decisions.

Each lesson in WAY begins with a video to engage students.

Choosing the BEST JOURNEY

Choosing the Best

https://www.choosingthebest.com

Choosing the Best JOURNEY:

a complete, easy-to-use program

Leader guide details teaching objectives, outline, plan, and optional classroom exercises and homework assignments. Conveniently features student curriculum on each page.
Video vignettes for each lesson and optional STD slide presentation
Student manual with interactive exercises
Colorful posters to reinforce healthy choices and positive behavior
Handy binder for easy storage
Title V approved

5th Edition Now Available!

For Lower High School – 9th-10th Grades

Covering topics that are highly relevant to lower high school teens, this eight-lesson curriculum powerfully communicates the value of committing to sexual delay. Videos that open each lesson lead naturally to discussion. Each 45-minute segment balances information about healthy choices with activities and role-plays that help guys and girls practice saying “No.” Topics include:

Avoiding STDs
Medically accurate, up-to-date information is provided about the most common STDs, including how they are transmitted, and why teens are particularly susceptible to getting STDs. Teens and young adults featured in the video share their life-changing consequences of getting an STD, including HIV. The lesson concludes with teens learning the benefits and limitations of contraception, including why “safe sex” does not completely eliminate their chance of getting an STD.
Developing the BEST relationships
This fascinating lesson presents teens with five steps to help build the best relationships, including how to avoid common relational traps. Teens learn that being the right person is important to having the best relationships and the lesson includes an exercise on building self-esteem.
Choosing The Best Journey
Teens learn about the negative emotional effects of casual sex and how sexual delay provides freedom: freedom from physical and emotional risks and the freedom to pursue dreams and personal goals. After evaluating the options for themselves, students are given the opportunity to consider how sexual delay will positively benefit their health and future. Finally, students learn that compatibility, character, and commitment are all important elements of the best relationships.

Overcoming the Pressure
The lesson opens by addressing the pressures in the media and from peers to be sexually active, including a discussion on the problem of pornography and sexting. Teens learn the importance of respect and setting sexual boundaries as a way to overcome these pressures. A separate discussion about preventing sexual violence teaches students how to recognize sexual violence, including teen dating violence, the five key components of consent, what is meant by “sex trafficking” and most importantly, how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim.
Being Assertive
Teens learn and practice, via role plays, specific assertiveness skills to overcome sexual pressures, including the very effective “Set It, Say It, Show It” and “Yes-No-Yes” techniques.

Relationship Skills for Love, Life, and Work

Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience

TYRO Youth

Meeting Students Where They Are.

Every Student Matters. Every Future Counts.

Choosing the Best WAY:

5th Edition Now Available!

For Lower Middle School – 6th Grade

Choosing the Best JOURNEY:

5th Edition Now Available!

For Lower High School – 9th-10th Grades

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