In our efforts to expand the Healthy Couples, Healthy Children project in PY 2004-2005, we incorporated the delivery of relationship skills education at an earlier point of intervention: targeting youth. Although this is a target population of interest in the federal marriage initiative, there has been virtually no work to document program impact and establish a model of practice. Targeting youth with relationship/marriage education can serve as prevention of risks in both the short-term and the long-term. The overall objectives of the program centered on the reduction of the risk of maltreatment in dating relationships (Alabama has some of the highest rates of abuse among dating adolescents in the country), and the promotion of future healthy relationships of these adolescents as they transition into adulthood and parenthood. Specifically, the goals were to assist adolescents in developing the skills and knowledge necessary for healthy dating relationships, and for making good choices about partners in the future. (Author abstract, modified)