Adult-preparation-topics_2024a - Love Notes: Skills for Love, Life, and Work

Sep 27, 2026

Love Notes is a youth development program for ages 14 to 24 at greatest risk for unstable or unhealthy relationships and unplanned pregnancy, including pregnant or parenting youth. It builds healthy relationship skills through self-awareness, guidance on romantic attraction, and decision-making frameworks that help youth choose partners and manage relationship expectations. Lessons emphasize communication, negotiation, conflict management, and identifying abusive behaviors, while supporting success in school, work, and personal life through trusted adult connections and future-focused planning.

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PREP Topics Addressed by Love Notes

Lesson Mapping to Required Topics

Trusted Adult-Teen Connection Activities

Are You Looking for a New PREP EBP? Plus meet five of the six adult preparation topics with Love Notes: Skills for Love, Life, and Work Love Notes is designed for youth age 14 to 24 who are most at risk for unstable and unhealthy relationships and unplanned pregnancy, including pregnant or parenting youth. Love Notes is a youth development, pregnancy prevention and dating violence prevention program that is embedded within a context of building healthy relationship skills. The lessons show youth, often for the first time, how to make wise choices about partners, relationships, sex, the timing of family formation and more. It fosters future orientation with assessment, decision-making and planning frameworks to support success in school, employment, and personal life. Love Notes begins with a focus on self-awareness—examining one’s past and its relationship to present self. Youth identify what’s important to them, learn about personality style, clarify relationship expectations, and set goals for the future. These first lessons build self-esteem and encourage youth to better know themselves and set goals. Youth learn about the nature of romantic attractions and how to build healthy relationships. Topics such as attractions, infatuations, ingredients and building blocks for healthy relationships, how intimacy develops, and a realistic concept of love are addressed. They learn what's important to find out about a person; acquire a“deciding, not sliding” framework for relationship decisions and a clear assessment model for healthy relationships. Love Notes also deals with break-ups and moving forward. There's a special focus on recognizing abusive behaviors, setting high standards, and on practicing skills to prevent and halt disrespectful behavior. Deciding, not sliding is the central construct ofLove Notes; youth are offered several frameworks to assess relationships, to make decisions, and to plan for their choices. Importantly, Love Notes offers an essential package of research-based skills for communication, negotiation and conflict management important for all of kinds of relationships—in the workplace, at school, and in personal life. With this unique approach youth, including young parents, are motivated to make wiser sexual and relationship choices. They learn the benefits of following a sequence of finishing school, obtaining employment, and forming a healthy union before having a child (or 2nd child) and explore related issues of family formation. Co-parenting challenges are addressed as well as research findings to help youth make decisions about cohabitation. All content is presented in a lively activity-based style and its skills-based approach empowers and builds confidence. Finally, Love Notes has an important Trusted Adult Connection component. Every lesson contains an engaging activity to convey core content and extend the discussions with caring adults on these important topics. Love Notes is an evidence-based (listed on the Office of Population Affairs EBP list) high activity program that was created and refined with the help of diverse youth. • [Dibblelnstitute.org](Dibblelnstitute.org) • [RelationshipSkills@Dlbblelnstitute.org](RelationshipSkills@Dlbblelnstitute.org) • 800-695-7975 • Listed below is a description of how and where Love Notes addresses five (5) of the six topics required in the PREP funding. Topics overlap in some lessons. | PREP Topics: | Love Notes | | --- | --- | | Healthy Relationships
*Positive Self-Esteem
*Relationship Dynamics
*Friendships
*Dating
*Romantic Involvement
*Marriage
*Family Interactions | Lesson 1: Relationships Today defining a vision; making
choices
Lesson 2: Knowing Yourself personality style, examining my
past, how it affects my present, deciding my future Lesson 3: My Expectations-My Future clarify expectations;
setting goals
Lesson 4: Attractions and Starting Relationships the chemistry of attraction; relatio

FAQs

Who is Love Notes designed for?

Love Notes is designed for youth ages 14 to 24 who are at risk for unstable or unhealthy relationships and unplanned pregnancy, including pregnant or parenting youth.

What skills does Love Notes teach for healthy relationships?

Youth learn about romantic attractions, how healthy relationships develop, decision-making frameworks, communication and negotiation, conflict management, and recognizing abusive behaviors.

How do trusted adult-teen connection activities work?

Every lesson includes activities that help youth discuss core topics with caring adults, using information and talking points while inviting adults to share wisdom to continue supportive conversations.

Sep 27, 2026

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