What is Family Life Education?

Family life education is committed to educating families in an effort to enrich and strengthen the quality of family life.  Educators work with families to enhance interpersonal relationships and help them reach their potential.  This preventive approach to education helps increase a person’s ability to better function in their personal lives and within society. 

Family Life Educators must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree but many have advanced degrees.  Educators have completed college courses with emphasis on human development, parent-child relationships, family belief systems, family economics, and policy.  The educator is able to effectively share this knowledge to help families facilitate better management of money and time, and understand the value of parent education. Working together to enrich and improve family life is the focus of family life education.