Frequently Asked Questions

Healthy Relationships is a comprehensive life skills, social skills, and relationship skills curriculum designed to help educators, counselors, therapists, and support professionals teach important communication, safety, health, and relationship skills through structured lessons, visual supports, hundreds of instructional videos, role plays, demonstrations, and interactive learning activities.

Developed by educators and counselors with years of classroom and clinical experience, Healthy Relationships helps learners develop knowledge and skills in areas such as hygiene and self care, understanding their bodies, personal boundaries, friendships, communication, online safety, decision making, relationship development, and transition readiness.

Used in schools, transition programs, counseling settings, and organizations across the country, Healthy Relationships is designed to be flexible and adaptable to a wide range of ages, abilities, and learning styles. The program combines practical instruction, visual learning supports, family engagement resources, professional development, and progress monitoring tools to help individuals build skills that can be applied at school, at home, in the workplace, and throughout the community.

Healthy Relationships was designed to support individuals with a wide range of learning, communication, social, and developmental needs. The program is commonly used as a special education curriculum within Life Skills Classrooms, Autistic Support, Emotional Support, Learning Support, Transition Programs, counseling settings, behavioral health organizations, adult service programs, and other environments where life, social, safety, and relationship skills are being taught.

Educators and support professionals use Healthy Relationships with learners across varying ability levels, including individuals with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, social communication challenges, and other learning differences. Because lessons, visuals, activities, and teaching supports can be adapted to meet individual needs, Healthy Relationships allows educators to provide instruction that is both meaningful and accessible.

Today, schools and organizations in 43 states use Healthy Relationships to help individuals build confidence, increase independence, strengthen communication, develop healthy relationships, and better navigate everyday situations at school, home, work, and within the community.

Healthy Relationships addresses a wide range of life, social, communication, safety, health, and relationship skills that help individuals better understand themselves, the people around them, and the situations they encounter each day.

Topics include:

• Hygiene and self care
• Restroom safety and privacy
• Adapted health and understanding their bodies
• Communication and social awareness
• Friendship skills
• Different types of relationships
• Bullying and peer pressure
• Social media and online safety
• Personal space and voice volume
• Small talk and conversation skills
• Decision making and consent
• Dating and relationship development
• Community and transition readiness

Lessons are designed to build upon one another over time, allowing educators to introduce concepts in meaningful and developmentally appropriate ways while revisiting important topics as individuals grow, encounter new situations, and move through different stages of life. Through visuals, videos, role plays, demonstrations, discussions, and hands on activities, Healthy Relationships helps individuals practice and apply skills that promote independence, strengthen relationships, and support personal safety in everyday situations.

Healthy Relationships is designed to support instruction across multiple age groups and developmental levels. The program is commonly used in elementary classrooms, middle school programs, high school programs, transition services, adult service settings, and other environments where life, social, safety, health, and relationship skills are being taught.

Rather than presenting topics as one-time lessons, Healthy Relationships encourages educators to revisit and build upon important concepts over time. As individuals encounter new situations and experiences, lessons can be reinforced and expanded in ways that remain meaningful and relevant to their current stage of life.

Healthy Relationships was intentionally designed to be ready to use while still offering flexibility when needed. Educators do not need to recreate lessons, videos, visuals, activities, or teaching supports from scratch. Instead, they have access to a comprehensive collection of materials that can be implemented immediately while still allowing adjustments to meet the needs of individual students, classrooms, programs, and organizations.

This balance of structure and flexibility helps Healthy Relationships remain appropriate for a wide range of ages, abilities, and learning environments.

Yes. Healthy Relationships was intentionally designed to support individuals with a wide range of learning, communication, social, and developmental needs. Educators and support professionals use the program with individuals who have autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, social communication challenges, and other learning differences.

Rather than requiring educators to significantly modify lessons before they can be used, Healthy Relationships provides structured instruction, visual supports, videos, role plays, demonstrations, and activities that were developed with diverse learners in mind. Frequently used within autism support programs as both a social skills curriculum and life skills resource, the program allows many educators to begin implementing instruction immediately while still having the flexibility to adjust instruction when needed.

Throughout the program, concepts are presented in concrete, meaningful ways that help individuals better understand themselves, the people around them, and the situations they may encounter in everyday life. Visual supports, repetition, modeling, and interactive learning opportunities help reinforce understanding and promote skill retention over time.

Because every individual learns differently, Healthy Relationships gives educators the ability to meet learners where they are while maintaining consistency in instruction and expectations.

Healthy Relationships was created by educators and counselors who have firsthand experience teaching life, social, safety, health, and relationship skills in real classrooms and support settings. The program was developed to address topics that educators often recognize as important but may not always have the time, resources, or confidence to teach consistently.

Unlike many programs that focus on a single topic or age group, Healthy Relationships provides a comprehensive approach that combines the strengths of a life skills curriculum, social skills curriculum, relationship skills curriculum, and transition curriculum within a single program. Lessons are reinforced through visual supports, videos, role plays, demonstrations, activities, family resources, and progress monitoring tools that help educators teach, reinforce, and measure important skills over time.

Healthy Relationships stands apart through its combination of:

• Structured lessons and teaching supports
• More than 1,000 visuals and teaching resources
• Hundreds of instructional videos, role plays, and demonstrations
• Progress monitoring and outcome measurement tools
• Family engagement resources
• Professional development and ongoing consultation
• Flexible implementation across a variety of settings

Today, Healthy Relationships is used in 43 states and supports approximately 250,000 individuals. The program continues to grow through feedback from educators, counselors, therapists, families, and support professionals who use it every day.

Yes. Healthy Relationships is frequently used as a transition curriculum because many of the skills needed for success after high school are woven throughout the program. Lessons help individuals build communication skills, social understanding, self advocacy, safety awareness, relationship skills, and independence that support success at home, in the workplace, and throughout the community.

Many educators also use Healthy Relationships to support IEP transition goals. Lessons address areas commonly included in transition planning, including communication, social interactions, problem solving, community participation, relationship development, and workplace expectations.

One of the strengths of Healthy Relationships is that skills learned in one area can often be applied to another. For example, lessons that help individuals understand the differences between friends, acquaintances, and bullies can also support discussions about workplace relationships. Individuals often benefit from learning the difference between a coworker, a supervisor providing direction, and someone who is truly treating them unfairly.

By helping individuals better understand themselves, the people around them, and the situations they encounter each day, Healthy Relationships supports meaningful preparation for life after high school.

Safety is one of the foundational principles woven throughout Healthy Relationships. Many of the lessons help individuals better recognize themselves, the people around them, and the situations they may encounter at home, at school, online, in the workplace, and throughout the community.

Topics such as privacy, personal boundaries, consent, social media, online interactions, communication, relationship development, peer pressure, scams, and decision making all contribute to helping individuals build greater awareness of the world around them. As individuals gain knowledge about people, relationships, and expectations, they are often better prepared to navigate situations that may otherwise be confusing or challenging.

For example, many individuals talk about having a boyfriend or girlfriend without fully recognizing what those relationships mean, how healthy relationships develop, or how to identify situations that may place them at risk. Healthy Relationships provides structured opportunities to explore these concepts in concrete, meaningful, and respectful ways.

Through lessons, visuals, videos, role plays, demonstrations, and discussions, Healthy Relationships helps individuals build knowledge, confidence, and independence while strengthening the skills needed to navigate everyday life more safely.

Yes. Healthy Relationships includes hundreds of instructional videos, role plays, and demonstrations designed to help bring important concepts to life. Videos address a wide range of topics, including hygiene, communication, friendships, social media, personal boundaries, consent, dating, safety, and everyday social situations.

Many individuals benefit from seeing skills modeled rather than simply hearing or reading about them. The video library provides opportunities to observe conversations, social interactions, routines, and real world scenarios in ways that are concrete, engaging, and easy to revisit as needed.

Videos can be used to introduce new concepts, reinforce classroom instruction, spark discussion, support skill retention, and provide additional learning opportunities outside of the classroom. Many videos are available in both English and Spanish, allowing educators and families to support learning across a variety of settings.

The Healthy Relationships video library continues to expand and evolve based on educator feedback, emerging needs, and new learning opportunities. Combined with lessons, visuals, activities, and role plays, the videos help create a consistent learning experience that supports knowledge, participation, and the practical application of skills in everyday life.

Visual supports are a key component of Healthy Relationships. The program includes more than 1,000 visuals and teaching supports designed to help individuals better understand concepts that may otherwise be difficult to explain through words alone.

Throughout the program, educators have access to visual aids, illustrations, posters, activities, discussion materials, and other resources that help reinforce learning and encourage meaningful participation. These supports are integrated throughout lessons rather than being treated as separate materials, helping create a consistent learning experience.

Many individuals benefit from seeing concepts presented visually. Whether discussing friendships, personal boundaries, communication, hygiene, social media, safety, or relationship development, visual supports help make abstract concepts more concrete, understandable, and memorable.

Combined with lessons, videos, role plays, and interactive activities, the visual supports within Healthy Relationships help educators present information in ways that are engaging, accessible, and practical for everyday life.

Healthy Relationships includes a variety of tools that help educators measure growth, document progress, and better understand how individuals are developing important life, social, safety, health, and relationship skills over time.

The program includes pre and post evaluations, progress monitoring tools, and other resources designed to help educators identify strengths, guide instruction, and track growth across a variety of topic areas. These tools help educators move beyond simply teaching lessons by providing meaningful information about skill development and learning outcomes.

Many educators also use Healthy Relationships progress monitoring tools to support IEP goals, transition planning, program evaluation, and conversations with families and support teams. By collecting information over time, educators can better identify areas of growth, recognize emerging needs, and make informed decisions about future instruction.

Many progress monitoring tools can be completed electronically, making it easier for educators to document growth, review outcomes, and maintain records over time.

Designed to be practical and easy to use, the progress monitoring resources help educators demonstrate the impact of instruction while maintaining a focus on meaningful skill development and increased independence.

myHRC is the online platform that supports the implementation of Healthy Relationships. It provides access to lessons, videos, visual supports, activities, progress monitoring tools, and other program resources through a centralized digital system.

Designed to support both instruction and organization, myHRC helps educators easily locate materials, track progress, access updates, and manage program implementation. The platform continues to evolve as new resources, videos, and support materials are added.

myHRC supports teacher accounts, administrator accounts, and unlimited student and family access, helping schools and organizations extend learning beyond the classroom and into the home when desired.

By bringing lessons, resources, videos, and progress monitoring tools together in one location, myHRC helps educators spend less time searching for materials and more time focusing on instruction and skill development.

Yes. Healthy Relationships offers opportunities for learning to extend beyond the classroom. Through myHRC, schools and organizations can choose to provide students, caregivers, family members, and support team members with access to lessons, videos, visual supports, and other program resources that reinforce important concepts across a variety of settings.

Access to these resources can help create consistency between the people supporting an individual by allowing them to explore the same topics and language being taught during instruction. This shared understanding can help strengthen communication, reinforce skills, and encourage meaningful conversations about relationships, safety, communication, decision making, and independence.

Once access is provided, students can continue exploring lessons and resources independently, while family members, caregivers, and support team members can review materials, watch videos, and revisit concepts at their own pace. Access is determined by the school, organization, or facilitator implementing the program, allowing each organization to decide how resources are shared and utilized.

By extending learning opportunities beyond direct instruction, Healthy Relationships helps create additional opportunities for practice, reinforcement, and ongoing skill development.

Yes. Healthy Relationships offers professional development and training opportunities designed to help educators, counselors, therapists, support professionals, and other team members feel confident implementing the program.

Training can be provided virtually or in person and may include program overviews, implementation guidance, instructional strategies, topic specific discussions, and opportunities to explore resources available through myHRC. Training experiences can also be customized to meet the unique goals, needs, and experience levels of individual schools, organizations, and teams.

In addition to formal training opportunities, Healthy Relationships users have access to ongoing support from a team of educators and counselors with experience implementing the program in schools, agencies, transition programs, and other service settings.

Whether an organization is just getting started or looking to expand implementation, training and support services help educators maximize the impact of Healthy Relationships while building confidence in teaching important life, social, safety, health, and relationship skills.

Yes. Healthy Relationships incorporates many evidence based instructional practices that are widely recognized as effective for supporting individuals with diverse learning, communication, social, and developmental needs.

Throughout the program, educators will find strategies such as visual supports, modeling, role plays, repetition, guided discussions, skill practice, and opportunities for reinforcement. These approaches help make concepts more concrete, increase engagement, and support the development and retention of important skills over time.

Healthy Relationships is informed by these evidence based practices and combines them with structured lessons, videos, activities, progress monitoring tools, and real world examples that help individuals apply skills in meaningful and practical ways.

The program continues to evolve through educator feedback, implementation experience, and ongoing efforts to provide resources that support effective instruction across a variety of educational and service settings.

Yes. Healthy Relationships was designed to be flexible enough to support a variety of educational, clinical, and community based settings. While many organizations first learn about Healthy Relationships through schools, the program is also used in behavioral health programs, transition services, adult service agencies, vocational programs, counseling settings, and other environments that support individuals with diverse learning and developmental needs.

Because the program focuses on life, social, safety, health, communication, and relationship skills, the lessons and resources can be applied across many different stages of life and service settings. Organizations often implement Healthy Relationships in ways that align with their specific goals, populations, and areas of focus while maintaining a consistent framework for instruction.

Today, Healthy Relationships is used by schools, agencies, and organizations across 43 states and supports approximately a quarter of a million individuals. Many organizations also use Healthy Relationships as an independent living skills curriculum that supports greater confidence, communication, safety awareness, relationship development, and independence. The program can be found in classrooms, community programs, employment related services, adult supports, and other environments where relationship skills, life skills, and independent living skills contribute to long term success and independence.

Whether supporting students, adults, families, caregivers, educators, or support professionals, Healthy Relationships provides a structured and practical approach to teaching skills that can be reinforced across a variety of settings and experiences.

Yes. Healthy Relationships can be implemented within a classroom, program, school, district, agency, or organization. Many organizations begin with a smaller implementation and expand over time as additional staff members, teams, and departments become involved.

One of the strengths of Healthy Relationships is the ability to create consistency across people, settings, and environments. When multiple educators, support professionals, and team members use the same framework, individuals benefit from hearing common language, seeing familiar visuals, and receiving reinforcement of important concepts throughout their day.

This consistency can be especially valuable when supporting communication, relationships, safety, social interactions, decision making, and independence. When individuals hear the same language, see the same visuals, and practice the same concepts across multiple settings, learning opportunities become more meaningful and easier to reinforce over time.

Through myHRC, organizations can support multiple users, provide access to resources, monitor implementation, and help ensure that staff members have access to the tools they need to support successful instruction and skill development.

Whether implemented by one educator or across an entire district or organization, Healthy Relationships is designed to support meaningful instruction while creating opportunities for consistency, collaboration, and long term skill development.

Yes. Healthy Relationships addresses many of the topics that educators, families, caregivers, and support professionals identify as important for helping individuals navigate everyday life with greater confidence, safety, and independence.

Lessons explore topics such as personal boundaries, privacy, consent, friendships, dating, communication, social media, online interactions, decision making, personal safety, relationship development, hygiene, and understanding the body. These topics are presented in ways that are structured, practical, and designed to meet individuals where they are in their learning journey.

Many educators also view Healthy Relationships as a practical approach to consent education for students with disabilities because concepts are presented in structured, concrete, and meaningful ways that support understanding and real world application.

Rather than focusing on a single topic area, Healthy Relationships helps individuals build the knowledge and skills needed to better understand themselves, interact with others, make informed decisions, and navigate the situations they may encounter at home, in school, online, in the workplace, and throughout the community.

By combining lessons, videos, visuals, activities, role plays, and ongoing reinforcement, Healthy Relationships provides opportunities to learn, practice, and apply these important skills in meaningful ways.

Getting started with Healthy Relationships is easy. Whether you are exploring the program for a school, district, transition program, adult service agency, behavioral health organization, or other service setting, there are several ways to learn more and determine whether Healthy Relationships is a good fit for your needs.

You can:

• Start a free trial of myHRC
• Request a sample packet
• Watch a Healthy Relationships overview video
• Schedule a virtual demonstration or presentation
• Connect with a member of our team to discuss your organization’s goals and implementation needs

Because every school, agency, and organization is unique, our team works closely with schools, agencies, and organizations to answer questions, provide demonstrations, explore available resources, and identify solutions that align with their goals, priorities, and budget considerations.

To get started, simply click one of the links above, visit our Contact Us page, or email info@healthyrelationshipscurriculum.org. We would be happy to learn more about your needs and explore how Healthy Relationships may fit within your organization.

The Healthy Relationships free trial is designed to help schools, agencies, and organizations explore the program and determine whether it is a good fit for their needs.

Most free trials begin with access to the Healthy Relationships video library. This allows organizations to explore hundreds of instructional videos, role plays, and demonstrations across a wide range of life, social, safety, health, communication, and relationship topics while becoming familiar with the overall scope of the program.

Many schools and organizations find that after exploring the video library, they would like a closer look at the lessons, visual supports, activities, assessments, and teaching materials that support and reinforce the videos. At that point, the trial can be expanded to provide a more complete view of how the various components work together to support instruction, skill development, and progress monitoring.

Free trials typically last approximately 4 to 5 weeks. Throughout the trial period, members of the Healthy Relationships team remain available to answer questions, provide guidance, and help organizations explore the program. If additional time is needed, we are always happy to continue the conversation.

No credit card is required to start a free trial, and there is no obligation to purchase the program.

Ready to explore Healthy Relationships? Request your free trial today.

We understand that budgets matter. Whether you are a school district, intermediate unit, behavioral health organization, adult service provider, transition program, or community agency, every organization has unique goals, priorities, and financial considerations.

Because Healthy Relationships can be used in a variety of ways, pricing is based on the needs of your organization and the resources that will best support your staff and the individuals you serve.

Before making a decision, we encourage you to explore the program through a free trial, sample packet, overview video, or virtual demonstration to better understand the depth of the program and the resources available.

Our team is happy to discuss your goals, answer questions, and explore options that align with your organization’s needs and budget. Simply click one of the links above, visit our Contact Us page, or email info@healthyrelationshipscurriculum.org to start the conversation.

If you have forgotten your myHRC username or password, please use the password reset option available on the myHRC login page.

If you continue to experience difficulties accessing your account, please contact the Healthy Relationships team at info@healthyrelationshipscurriculum.org for assistance. We will be happy to help you regain access to your account.