ACHMI Curricula
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Target Audiences:

  • Teens Grades 7-12, non-school based delivery.
  • Non-married parents
  • Stepfamily Couples & their Children
  • Singles
  • Premarital couples

FOCUS: Ethnically diverse, lower resource families

Relationship Smarts

Target Audience: Teens in grades 7-12

  • Provides practical guidance that teens crave for building relationships.
  • Covers subjects such as attraction, infatuation, rejection, falling in love, emotions, breaking up, recognizing abusive relationships, communication skills, and understanding healthy marriages.

Smart Steps

Target Audience: Stepfamily couples and their childre

Research-based content, empirically derived

Expand knowledge

  • family-type diversity in America
  • the myths  about stepfamilies
  • realistic expectations for stepfamily members
  • skills for building healthy stepfamily relationships

Mastering the Magic of Love

Target audience: Low income/low education couples

  • teaches couples how to establish a cooperative atmosphere for resolving difficult relationship issues
  • fosters increased openness and trust
  • creates solutions to conflicts at the couple's deepest levels.

Caring for My Family: Together We Can

Target Audience: Non-married low-income parents

  • discusses the benefits of marriage and goal-setting for family stability
  • relationship skills
  • includes activities for stress management and building self-efficacy, identifying family strengths, and incorporating family rituals.

Basic Training: Black Marriage Education

Target Audience: African-American pre-marital couples

  • resources can also be used for enrichment
  • teaches how to move from the "I" mindset to the "We" mindset.
  • emphasizes how to maintain their relationship over the long term
  • basic communication skills

How to Avoid Marrying a JERK

Target Audience: Pre-martial couples

  • describes major areas that predict what a person will be like in marriage
  • emphasizes the bonding forces that must be kept in balance as a relationship grows