About the Elevate Program
This skills-based, evidence-informed program helps couples form, improve, and sustain healthy relationships.
Elevate blends practical skills with an understanding of the physiology of human interaction to enhance knowledge and skills essential to healthy relationships.
Seven Ways To ELEVATE Your Relationship
EMPOWER YOURSELF
Taking care of yourself first can help improve the wellness of your relationship.
While a healthy couple relationship can lead to better health, attending to one's physical, mental, and emotional well-being also fosters healthier couple relationships.
LAY THE FOUNDATION
Learn ways you can choose to make deliberate and conscious decisions about your relationships.
A strong, healthy, long-lasting relationship does not just happen by chance but, instead, through deliberate and conscientious decisions to be committed, intentional, proactive, and strengths-focused.
ENLIGHTEN
Create an stronger awareness of your partner and the relationship.
To develop and sustain healthy relationships, partners must develop and maintain intimate knowledge of each other's personal and relational needs, interests, feelings, and expectations.
VALUE
Learn ways you can show support, affection, and respect for your partner.
Individuals who express kindness, use understanding and empathy, demonstrate respect, and invest time to be available and open to their partner are able to maintain stable, healthy couple relationships.
ATTACH
Develop and maintain your friendship with your partner to help build couple identity.
Being a healthy couple involves spending meaningful time together and fostering a shared sense of couple identity in order to sustain a close, enduring friendship based on trust and love.
TAME
Learn skills to deal with differences in healthy ways.
Problems and conflicts are a normal part of relationships. Healthy couples use strategies to see their partner's view, accept differences, and manage stress to ensure emotional and physical safety.
ENGAGE
Identify ways that you can connect your relationship to others.
The connections that couples develop with their family, peers, and community offer a source of meaning, purpose, and support that influence the health and vitality of their couple relationship.
Choose a Format That Works for You
- Choose between Live, Online Workshops led by an ELEVATE educator or our flexible On-Demand, Online Program supported by an ELEVATE Coach.
- Both formats include the same curriculum, workbook, fun activities, and lots of time to connect with each other.
- Participate together from the comfort of your own home.
- Select the option that best fits your schedules and learning style.
What Couples Receive
- 8 modules of fun, relationship education for free!
- Learn the seven core skills and qualities for healthy, lasting relationships.
- Support from trained educators throughout your journey.
- Practical tools and activities to help take your relationship to the next level.
It “Pays” to Elevate your Relationship
- The more modules both partners complete, the more you will receive!
- Up to a $120 e-gift card per couple for completing the full program together.
- Additional e-gift cards for each partner who participates in the research study.
Looking to Strengthen Your Financial Future?
Financial stress is one of the most common sources of conflict for couples.
After completing Elevate, you and your partner will have the opportunity to participate in Discovering Money Solutions (DMS), a free UGA Extension financial education program. DMS helps couples build financial knowledge, strengthen money management skills, and work toward greater financial stability. More information about this optional program will be shared during your participation in Elevate.