RELATIONSHIPS

Strengthening Marriages & Relationship Training  (SMART) classes now available!

SMART Couples Florida classes are designed to teach you how to communicate your needs, listen to the needs of others, successfully resolve conflicts, and maintain happy and healthy relationships with everyone in your life. Based on the latest research and taught by UF/IFAS-trained instructors, SMART Couples classes include:

• Before You Tie the Knot: A powerful online program to start your relationships out right. Want to be a better partner and friend, improve your communication skills, and ensure that the foundation of your relationship is strong before you get married? Learn the skills you’ll need for a successful, healthy, and happy marriage. Participants in Manatee County will receive a discount on their marriage license when they bring their signed certificate to the courthouse.

• Homeflow: This series of research-based modules are designed to simplify your home living situation. It’s about how your home “flows” together as a unit comprised of a house, everyone who lives in it, and the property and community in which it’s located. Homeflow explores the relationships between the health of the home and its occupants, communications between home occupants, home maintenance and operation, energy and functional efficiency, and home safety routines and practices.

• 9 $kills for Talking about Money: Learn how to effectively discuss finances with your partner. Can finances and communicating effectively about finances actually coexist? The answer is an affirmative “YES” as you explore the 4 Don’ts and 5 Do’s of communication that will revolutionize your ability to talk about any topic, not just money.

• UNITED-Marriage Enhancement Training (U-MET): An exciting online relationship guidance for singles and couples. Explore and apply some of the best of what we know from the last 30-years of research to help you strengthen your marriage and other relationships, and have a great time doing it! U-MET is one of the most comprehensive online couple and relationship education programs available and its FREE, so you can take the classes together in the comfort of your own home!

• Positive Behavioral Management: A life-changing skills program for parents and teachers. Struggling with an unruly child? Want to learn how to manage child behavior more effectively? The powerful and practical skills you as parents and teachers will learn in this program will change the way you think about and work with children and teenagers.

• Elevate: A powerful relationship enhancement program for couples - dating, cohabiting, engaged, married - who want to improve their communication skills and to strengthen their relationships.  

For more information, check out SMARTcouples.org OR Register for Classes