Change the World and Get Paid to Do it/Short Selling/ Faith-Based Initiatives - 3/24/09

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- CHANGE THE WORLD AND GET PAID TO DO IT!
- SLIDING VS DECIDING: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
- OBAMA AND FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES
- WONDERFUL PDF SLIDE SHOW ON BECOMING PARENTS

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- CHANGE THE WORLD AND GET PAID TO DO IT!

Change the world and get paid to do it!  We have to start with the kids.
Teach teens the skills needed for healthy relationships - and we will pay
you!

The SIMPLE STEPS to help teens and get a free curriculum and $$$:

- Apply to participate in the First Comes Love program. Spaces are limited,
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- Register and attend the two-day training at the Smart Marriages 2009
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- Get one FREE instructor's guide of your choice and 40 sets of student
materials
- Teach one of four curricula to at least 40 teens by May 30, 2010
- Certify that you completed the instruction and you'll receive a benchmark
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Attend the Training Institute at the Smart Marriage Conference even if you
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To read all about the options:
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Kay Reed
www.BuildingRelationshipSkills.org

PS: Ever wonder what goes on at the Smart Marriage Conference?
Check out these 2008 speaker excerpts on YouTube!

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- SLIDING VS DECIDING: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Here's a clip from Scott Stanley's blog, subscribe here:
http://tinyurl.com/cgzhz5

> A practical point about relationships: People can have an artificially low
> sense of themselves because of how they have been treated or what they have
> experienced. How they were treated, by family growing up or by past loves, can
> have little to do with their own worth but it still may stick, at least for a
> time. The danger for anyone who has had difficult relationships in the past is
> selling themselves short in the future.

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- OBAMA AND FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES

The faith-based initiative, 2.0
Obama's new - and old - approach

Despite the change of administrations, the faith-based initiative that was a
hallmark of the Bush White House is not going to disappear under President
Barack Obama. In fact, the program will expand its mission to "foster
interfaith dialogue with leaders and scholars around the world," according
to the White House press release.

Moreover, the issue of hiring by religious groups that take federal funds
for social service work remains an ongoing controversy, for Obama as it was
for President George W. Bush. As a candidate, Obama said that religious
groups that receive federal funds would not be allowed to discriminate in
their hiring practices. Yet as president, Obama has appeared to allow for
some accommodation on that hot-button issue. How that will play out for
houses of worship and religious institutions across the country that provide
social services is a topic of much debate and uncertainty.

This edition of ReligionLink provides background on the debate, as well as
resources and experts for covering the changing landscape of the faith-based
initiative under the new president.
http://www.religionlink.org/tip_090324.php

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- WONDERFUL PDF SLIDE SHOW ON BECOMING PARENTS
  
More tools you can use:  One plus One's wonderful slide show presented at a
recent conference in the UK:
http://www.oneplusone.org.uk/Publications/Think%20FathersThink%20Mothers.pdf


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