Frequently Asked Questions

Our Healthy Relationships Curriculum is a comprehensive & highly adaptable program that teaches challenging life & social skills activities to students & older individuals with a variety of needs.  This unique program can be implemented in a variety of learning modalities including in-person, remote, or hybrid settings.

The curriculum was developed for schools & organizations that support students and individuals with a variety of needs including, but not limited to autism, developmental and intellectual disabilities, and emotional challenges. From start to finish, our program encourages participants not only how to pursue and maintain healthy relationships but to find value in doing so.

The program was created by our team of current special education teachers, supervisors, school psychologists, and counselors. Our teachers were scrambling all the time to find or create resources, so we designed our own!

The Healthy Relationships Curriculum is more than just a book to teach complex lessons, it is a wealth of resources to allow teachers and counselors to focus on teaching concepts through demonstrations, visuals, posters, videos, roleplays, & scenarios versus spending valuable time creating worksheets and packets. Each teacher or counselor will receive:

• Over 180 Streaming Videos
• Online Progress Monitoring Tools
• Unlimited Student & Family Portal Access
• A 522 Page Curriculum Manual
• Revisable & Sharable Online Documents
• Poster Box
• Family Involvement
• Lesson Games & Activities
• Scenario Cards
• Sensory Checklist
• Pre/Post Testing
• Parent & Family Input
• Outcome Measurement Tools
• Visual Checklists
• Parental Guide for Success
• Videos & Materials in Spanish
• Scripted Role Plays & Demonstrations
• Visuals
• Detailed Lesson Plans
• Cultural Awareness Considerations
• Scope & Sequence
• Digital Check for Understanding Quizzes
• Tips & Suggestions to Teach Lesson Content
• Measure Retention of Skills
• Comprehensive Professional Development
• Ongoing Consultation
• Ability to Receive Updated Materials for Free

Test it all out for yourself first! Request a chance to dive in with a FREE TRIAL!

Our team is not your typical “sales” team. Rather, we are made up of special education teachers & directors, therapists, school psychologists, and doctors. As teachers and counselors, we needed these tools as well for our students and clients so we created the Healthy Relationships Curriculum. We piloted the Curriculum for four years starting in 2011 and published it in 2015.

Right now, we estimate that roughly 100,000 thousand educators, counselors, students, & fmailies across the nation are utilizing our program.

• Boston Public Schools
• Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities
• Walla Walla Public Schools
• ViaQuest Psychiatric & Behavioral Solutions
• 13 Pennsylvania Intermediate Units
• Brewster Central School District
• Achievement House Cyber Charter School
• Vista Learning Center
• Mercer County Educational Service Center
• Brick Township Public Schools
• Child and Career Development Center
• The Arc of Cumberland & Perry Counties
• Innovative ABA
• The Shore Center for Students with Autism

These are just a few schools and organizations using the Curriculum to enhance their existing classrooms and programs! See how this resource could help your students and clients today by reaching out for more information. 

Yes, we realize that many schools & districts think CARES funding has to be used on sanitization measures and technology, and rightfully so. But, within the funding requirements, the Healthy Relationships Curriculum would qualify under multiple sections of the CARES Act including:

• This educational tool and resource, for your students with disabilities, is directly listed as one of the specifics allowable for use for the K-12 relief funding.
• The Healthy Relationships Curriculum would ensure appropriate guidance to achieve requirements under IDEA and will ensure offering educational services to meet IEP transition goals through both in-person AND remote learning options.
• School leaders, like special education directors and others, can use the CARES Act funding to purchase resources to address the needs of their individual schools and students.

Yes, just like with the CARES Act, American Rescue Plan Funding can be used on:

• Educational tool and resource, for your students with disabilities, is directly listed as one of the specifics allowable for use for the K-12 relief funding.
• The Healthy Relationships Curriculum would ensure appropriate guidance to achieve requirements under IDEA and will ensure offering educational services to meet IEP transition goals through both in-person AND remote learning options.

Yes! Educational programs and resources, like the Healthy Relationships Curriculum, are able to be purchased under a variety of funding categories. Whether you are working with students that have varying needs, you want to address learning losses that some of your students experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, or you want to incorporate programming like the Healthy Relationships Curriculum into your school’s future technology investments—you have options.  If you aren’t sure what type of funding can be used to purchase the Healthy Relationships Curriculum according to your school’s needs, please contact us. We would be more than happy to talk to you about how other schools and educators have approached purchasing this program.

The Healthy Relationships Curriculum is a copyrighted and licensed program packaged and sold in Kits.

Each Curriculum Kit includes:

• • Curriculum Teaching Manual with All 39 Lessons Plans
  • Digital Learning Options to Support Interactive Teaching
  • Full Video Library (180+ Videos)
  • Online Progress Monitoring Tools
  • Revisable & Sharable Documents in every lesson
  • Materials and Select Videos Available in Spanish
  • eQuizzes for Every Lesson
  • myHRC Online Portal Staff Login
  • Unlimited myHRC student & family seats
  • Home Supplements for Each Lesson
  • Access to All Outcome Measurement Tools
    • • Pre/Post Testing
      • Skill Evaluation Forms
      • Participant Tracking
      • Progress Monitoring
  • Visual Cue Cards
  • Poster Box
  • Scenario Cards
  • Scope & Sequence
  • Tips & Suggestions for Teaching Lessons
  • Visual Checklists for Individuals
  • Lesson Activities & Games
  • Check for Understanding Assessments
  • Parental Guide for Success Magazine
  • Professional Development
  • License to Use Materials
  • Materials in English & Spanish
  • Available Ongoing Support
  • ….. and much more.

Click here to schedule a free, multi-week trial to see for yourself.

By working in a school ourselves, we appreciate the limits on budgets. Working with individual counselors, small outpatient centers, and rural schools as well as larger districts like Boston Public & NYC Schools, our goal is to work with you, your team, and your budget.

We strongly encourage you to try the program for yourself for free to see if it meets your needs!

Reach out to explore pricing options & speak directly to one of our teachers, counselors, or special education supervisors so we can work together to achieve the best pricing for your school, center, or organization.  Contact us now.

We recommend the lessons be taught in small groups by an educator (Special Education, Life Skills, Intervention Specialist, Autistic Support, Phys. Ed., Health, etc.), therapist (mental health, speech, occupational, etc.), social worker, nurse, or anyone else your school or organization feels confident can provide the skills to the groups.

This comprehensive program is taught through:

• • Repetition
  • Small groups
  • Visuals
  • Demonstrations
  • Role Plays
  • Video modeling
  • Parental involvement
  • Assessments
  • Progress Monitoring

Yes! When you purchase the program, you will be trained by our team of experts in the field. Our training team consists of school counselors, teachers, and special education supervisors who will not only show you how to teach the curriculum to your students but will offer you a ton of “tips and tricks” based on their professional experience.

Survey after survey tells us that our training by far is one of the best reasons to purchase this Curriculum for your school or organization.  In fact, below is just one response from a special education teacher from Long Island, New York.

“I have to thank you for your amazing training. I have been teaching since 1998 and as a PE teacher since 2002. Your training ranks up in my top three in the past 20 plus years here. I took away so much information and even fostered conversation with my own family about certain issues.

I am super impressed with you as an educator, your intellect on the topics, and your ease of communication with strangers.  You made us all feel comfortable. I can not thank you enough for bringing my level of teaching a step higher than where I was.”

The curriculum is designed & encouraged to be used across all grades in a district. We believe that repetition, consistent messaging, and offering a proactive approach are key to the success of the learner or student. Because of this we strongly recommend school districts begin teaching portions of the curriculum as early as elementary school while building on lessons and introducing new lessons with every new grade level. For an understanding of how the lessons can be utilized across a district please view the Scope and Sequence.

With the complex nature of many of these topics, we also believe that older learners can greatly benefit as well. With lessons topics such as consent, consequences to breaking social expectations and norms as well as dating and relationships, we believe that the lesson content and the full curriculum are critical for adult learners as well.

Once you purchase the curriculum, you will receive access to myHRC Online Portal. With the myHRC digital platform, educators and facilitators of the curriculum can teach concepts in a traditional classroom or group setting as well as continue the learning digitally. myHRC contains an extensive video library, resources, visuals, checklists, cue cards, and more interactive learning.

Our video library currently offers over 180 video lessons and can be viewed using any internet-connected device. The teacher, instructor, or group leader has access to all the videos at any time. These same videos can be shared with students, parents, or caregivers outside of the classroom or group and can be viewed on any internet-connected device. Teachers or group leaders also have control to share which specific videos that they would like students, parents, or caregivers to beyond the group instruction.

We would be pleased to set up a time that best fits your schedule to offer a free, multi-week trial & demo.

We have found that most schools, special education directors, teachers, clinicians, therapists, and others interested in learning more about this unique program have found incredible value in being able to use the program & see how comprehensive it really is!

A common theme that we hear during these presentations can be summarized by an Ohio special education director who stated, “I never knew anything like this existed. We could have used this for years now. Thank you very much for encouraging me and my staff to take the time to schedule a presentation.”  

Based on your schedule, we will find a time to meet that fits your needs. We offer virtual presentations using Zoom where you can explore the different lessons, table of content, outcome measurement tools, visuals, and of course our extensive video library!

Reach out to schedule your free trial by clicking here.

Our team can support current users that have questions or need assistance with the myHRC Online Portal. You can choose to select the “Support” option located in the menubar once you are logged in to your myHRC account or you can simply just email us directly at info@healthyrelationshipscurriculum.org.

The first step of the process is to contact a Healthy Relationships Curriculum team member by completing the contact page on our website.  Here you will find several options to choose from:

1) Ask a team member a question and learn more.

2) Receive a sample lesson and information packet.

3) Schedule your free, multi-week trial.

The most popular choice by most visitors to our website is to schedule a free trial, but we would be happy to send you information however you would like.

Yes, of course! Just go to our contact page on our website and fill out the Send Me a Sample Packet form.  This will then be sent to the Healthy Relationships Curriculum team who will then send you the requested information.

However, countless users have told us that diving into the materials with a free, multi-week trial & scheduling a brief demo was the best way to see the full depth of the Curriculum and the full scope of what is covered.

Our Healthy Relationships Curriculum is built around three modules:

1. Caring for Myself/Hygiene
2. Understanding my Body/Health Education
3. Relationship Development/Communication Styles/Social Media Safety/Consent

Within these three modules, our lesson plans and topics correspond to each.  To view the full list and the table of contents, please click here.

We would be happy to help. Simply send us an email at info@healthyrelationshipscurriculum.org. and let us know that you need your username and/or password to be reset.