From Time to Quality Time: Making Every Moment Count

This fact sheet includes suggestions for ways to maximize time with loved ones though transforming moments together into quality time

Helping Children Understand and Manage Anger

Anger is a strong emotion that often leads to negative coping strategies. Children\u27s anger poses challenges for parents and other caregivers and accounts for stress and frustration. Engaging children in a variety of effective coping strategies can assist with their feelings of anger

Effective Communication Skills: I Messages and Beyond

This fact sheet points out that learning and implementing a few simple skills can help you maintain positive relationships with others. Practicing “I” messages can help you to de-escalate situations, collaborate to resolve issues, and ultimately build stronger relationships with your partner, family, and others around yo

Effective Communication Skills: Resolving Conflicts

This fact sheet defines communication skills that are useful in resolving conflicts

Making Media Work for Your Marriage

This fact sheet gives tips for strengthening relationships through technology and for safeguarding those relationships

Lessons Learned from Organizing a Multi-County Marriage Celebration Event

It is well documented that individuals in communities need and value opportunities to engage in marital education and enrichment programs. Often individuals are interested in learning strategies that will enhance their interpersonal relationships. One way in which this can be done is through educational events that focus on specific topics. This paper focuses on specific strategies and lessons learned in hosting a collaborative relationship enrichment event, Marriage Celebration, across multiple counties

Preparing Children for a Healthy Marriage

Research indicates that the principles for preparing youth for future healthy marriage relationships include many of the basic principles of good parenting such as a healthy home environment, modeling healthy relationships, being involved in a child’s life, and encouraging healthy choices. Ultimately, as children progress into adulthood they will make their own choices about relationships; however, by providing healthy role models, encouragement, and support, youth will have the framework necessary to develop a healthy and lasting marriage

Evaluating a Short Duration Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) Event Across Time and Format: 8 Years of Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic changed how short-term relationship and marriage education (RME) reached participants for events such as the Utah Marriage Celebration Conference. This article examines participant-perceived relationship knowledge from an annual marriage conference that began prior to the pandemic and has continued through the disruption (from 2015 through 2022). Results indicate this short-duration marriage conference does improve participant-perceived knowledge across years [t(2381) = 59.84, p = .001]. Further, results indicate that online participants rate their perceived relationship knowledge as higher than in-person participants at both pre [F(1, 2752) = 153.0, p = .001] and post [F(7, 2594) = 25.14, p = .001]. Results also indicate differences in perceived knowledge by participant age, replicating previous results from this specific program. While participants may desire the ease and convenience of online learning, results suggest that a mixed modality yields the best learning outcomes for participants. Suggestions and recommendations for future short-term RME are provided as it continues to be necessary to navigate post-pandemic educational environments

Celebrating Women Conference: Promoting Well-being Among Utah Women

The Celebrating Women Conference is an annual Utah State University (USU) Extension event designed to increase Utah women’s knowledge of health and well-being. It also provides opportunities for social connection, serves as an inspiration for a positive lifestyle change, and cultivates new skills for women to thrive in life