A skills-building curriculum focused understanding, building, navigating, and maintaining health-promoting interpersonal connections with individuals and our communities.
Healthy Relationships
Program Overview
The curriculum is an evidence-based tool, designed for individuals to learn and practice critical social skills for building healthy personal, professional, academic, and intimate relationships. Along with the culturally informed skill-building, course participants experience a supportive learning environment among peers, which fosters a sense of community and a safe space to learn and grow.
Why Healthy Relationships?
This curriculum has evolved out of a need to support students’ ability to thrive, not just survive in higher education. An increasing institutional need and desire to retain students in higher education, create an impactful collegiate experience, and the legal precedent to respond to Title IV criteria that instructs higher education institutions to support all persons (complainants, respondents, and witnesses) involved in the process.
The Healthy Relationship course addresses gaps in curriculum-based preventative interpersonal skills instruction and restorative justice learning. This course is designed as a tool for individuals to learn and practice critical social skills for building healthy personal, professional, academic, and intimate relationships. Along with the culturally informed skill-building, course participants experience a supportive learning environment among peers, which fosters a sense of community and a safe space to learn and grow.
It serves to assist individuals in exploring and understanding what healthy relationships are and how to build them from a skills perspective, with the aim to empower individuals to actively contribute to a healthier and safer campus community.
The skills I learned is how to manage stress as a college student and having a growth mindset instead of a fix mindset.
Former Student
Healthy Relationships Offerings
Boston University’s FY103: Self-Efficacy Seminar
In this 1-credit course at Boston University, students examine their relationship values and the socio-cultural factors that influence their interpersonal and workplace relationships. Learn and practice critical communication skills from active listening and responding with empathy, to navigating difficult conversations and problem-solving.
A unique occasion to promote and build positive health and self-care practices. Students use the facilitated conversations as opportunities to build wellness skills, support for personal and academic success, and satisfaction.
Students enroll through their BU student portal. If there are any additional questions about the program, feel free to reach out to Ali at agold4@bu.edu or (857)225-0230.
Restorative learning 6-week workshop series:
We work with colleges and universities’ Title IX offices to support students who have been asked to complete an educational course as part of their disciplinary sanctions. The restorative practices that inform the skills-building exercises and facilitation closely align with the values and practices of whole-person learning and hope to address feelings of shame and fear that are often experienced and reported by Title IX respondents.
The cost of the 6-week workshop series is $500. Financial assistance through the Center may be available to students and families based on need, as we do not work with insurance companies.
The workshop series covers such topics as Healthy & Unhealthy Relationship signs, consent, boundaries, sexuality, online profiles & relationships, self-efficacy and more.
I thought the environment was incredibly safe, I felt at ease when taking the course and did not feel as if I it were a chore.
Former Student
Curriculum Dissemination
The curriculum has been adapted and implemented at ten institutions nationally and internationally, a high school, a therapeutic program, a family program, and a criminal justice program. This class is now recognized by the Equal Opportunity Office at Boston University as a restorative learning opportunity for Title IV respondents.
If you are interested in bringing Healthy Relationships to your school or organization, or want to learn more, we invite you to reach out to Jaime with any questions.
I learned from hearing from others, even when their personal experiences or circumstances were pretty different. I enjoyed the engagement by everyone, and I am grateful for it, as well as for the very empathetic, non-judgmental nature of the instructor!
