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Love Notes offers young people—including young parents—knowledge of what a
healthy relationship is and isn’t, as well as skills for handling the early chemistry of
attraction and choosing partners wisely. Young people learn the building blocks of
healthy relationships and are encouraged to identify relationship qualities important
for good foundations. They are provided several frameworks to help them assess
relationships (past or present) and to make important relationship decisions. They
learn the red flags of unhealthy and dangerous relationships and ways to exit those
relationships safely. They identify what needs to change or improve for a relationship to
continue. They learn how to handle break-ups and then move forward.
Improving Communication Skills
This program includes a powerful set of evidence-based skills to improve
communication, negotiation, and the handling of conflict. These skills are adapted from
PREP, the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. Youth practice new ways
to handle anger and regulate strong emotions. They learn a technique for how to talk
through difficult or sensitive issues. They learn how to more effectively raise issues and
complaints, recognize hidden issues, and solve problems within their relationships. The
communication skills are central to self-regulation.
Dating Violence Prevention
Building robust knowledge and skills for healthy relationships provides a positive
and proactive way to prevent dating violence. It is difficult to steer clear of or exit a
destructive relationship if young people have only experienced and seen unhealthy
relationships and they have no clue how to build a healthy relationship. This problem
is compounded if they have little insight into themselves and their unaddressed issues.
The vision building, skills, guides, and frameworks in Love Notes help raise young
people’s confidence that they can develop healthy selves and healthy relationships.
Love Notes contains activities to identify early warning signs of dating violence and
sexual coercion, along with how to set boundaries and apply them at the first sign
of disrespect. It also raises awareness of how children are harmed by turbulent and
destructive parental and partner relationships. They learn about consent.
Copyright 2018 Marline E. Pearson
Love Notes offers young people—including young parents—knowledge of what a
healthy relationship is and isn’t, as well as skills for handling the early chemistry of
attraction and choosing partners wisely. Young people learn the building blocks of
healthy relationships and are encouraged to identify relationship qualities important
for good foundations. They are provided several frameworks to help them assess
relationships (past or present) and to make important relationship decisions. They
learn the red flags of unhealthy and dangerous relationships and ways to exit those
relationships safely. They identify what needs to change or improve for a relationship to
continue. They learn how to handle break-ups and then move forward.
Improving Communication Skills
This program includes a powerful set of evidence-based skills to improve
communication, negotiation, and the handling of conflict. These skills are adapted from
PREP, the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. Youth practice new ways
to handle anger and regulate strong emotions. They learn a technique for how to talk
through difficult or sensitive issues. They learn how to more effectively raise issues and
complaints, recognize hidden issues, and solve problems within their relationships. The
communication skills are central to self-regulation.
Dating Violence Prevention
Building robust knowledge and skills for healthy relationships provides a positive
and proactive way to prevent dating violence. It is difficult to steer clear of or exit a
destructive relationship if young people have only experienced and seen unhealthy
relationships and they have no clue how to build a healthy relationship. This problem
is compounded if they have little insight into themselves and their unaddressed issues.
The vision building, skills, guides, and frameworks in Love Notes help raise young
people’s confidence that they can develop healthy selves and healthy relationships.
Love Notes contains activities to identify early warning signs of dating violence and
sexual coercion, along with how to set boundaries and apply them at the first sign
of disrespect. It also raises awareness of how children are harmed by turbulent and
destructive parental and partner relationships. They learn about consent.
Copyright 2018 Marline E. Pearson
