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Second Wednesday Webinar
May 8, 2024
Centering Youth Voice Using Peer Facilitators in Relationship Education to Engage and Empower Youth
Join Kelley Luckett and Daiya Thompson of the Louisville YMCA as they discuss lessons learned over the last two years of implementing Love Notes in Teen Vibe Camps using peer facilitators.
Presenter: Kelley Luckett; Senior Director of Community Integrated Health, Louisville YMCA & Daiya Thompson; Love Notes Peer Facilitator
Emerging Relationships Brings Healthy Relationship Education to Tweens!
Healthy relationship skills are the foundation for safety, stability, and well-being. Starting to teach these skills to youth before adolescence prepares them to say yes to their goals and no to the risky behaviors that can get in the way of achieving those goals! Emerging Relationships is an all-new, research-based curriculum from The Dibble Institute that uses a positive youth development framework to reach fifth and sixth graders with developmentally appropriate healthy relationships content. In six lessons, they will learn skills to enhance their understanding of themselves and to contribute to healthy friendships with their peers.
UP YOUR GAME! ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR GREAT FACILITATORS TRAINING
Join Scott Roby from Public Strategies for “Up Your Game! Essential Skills for Great Facilitators” a dynamic 1.5-day professional development training in Oklahoma City on June 26 and 27.
Scott will help you elevate your teams’ facilitation process, captivate both youth and adult participants, enhance engagement, and maximize learning outcomes.
Register at the NARME website for the June training. (Training registration is fourth from the bottom)
Romance Matters: The Role of Dating in Adolescents’ Friendship Beginnings and Endings
This study examines the influence of romantic relationships on the formation and dissolution of adolescent friendships with a longitudinal network sample from age 14 to 15. Using a dynamic, network statistical model, they found that engagement in a romantic relationship shaped friendship homophily over time, with daters becoming friends with other daters, and singles forming friendships with other singles. Partnered adolescents were not more likely than those who were unattached to dissolve their friendships; however, they were significantly less prone to form new friendships over time.
Healthy Relationships for 'Tweens
Dibble uses a positive youth development framework to prepare fifth and sixth graders for healthy relationships.
Healthy Relationships for Younger Teens
Dibble works with younger teens to teach them healthy relationship skills early in their lives.
Healthy Relationships for Older Teens & Young Adults
Dibble’s materials teach teens and young adults how to be successful in friendships, dating, and love.