Hint of the Month and News Update - October, 2003
 
October 2003 Hint
Selecting the Right Inventory - An Update

There are now five inventories available in the range of Prepare-Enrich materials. Administrators trained at a Prepare Training Day already have PREPARE and PREPARE-MC available to them, and a third additional resource is now available as an add-on resource. This is PREPARE-CC (for use with cohabiting couples). Administrators who have attended an Enrich Training Day have ENRICH available, and they can purchase the MATE inventory as an additional resource. 

Some flexibility is needed here, but here are some general guidelines for inventory selection: 

      PREPARE 
      Primarily designed for never-married couples not living together and intending to marry, or never-married couples exploring the possibility of marriage. 
      To be used primarily as a marriage preparation resource. 
      PREPARE-MC 
      Primarily designed for couples intending to marry or exploring the possibility of marriage, but one or both of the partners have children from previous relationships and hence issues of blending families are involved. 
      To be used primarily as a marriage preparation resource. 
      PREPARE-CC 
      Primarily designed for cohabiting couples without children, particularly those intending to marry. Cohabiting couples in longer-term relationships with children from this relationship are more likely to benefit from taking ENRICH (see below). In the situation where one or both partners have children from previous relationships PREPARE-MC might be a better choice. 
      To be used primarily as a marriage preparation resource. 
      This resource is available for purchase ($15) by accredited Administrators. To order PREPARE-CC just go to back to the Administrators Home Page and use the ordering materials link. Details about PREPARE-CC were included in the December 2002 Newsletter (it is available on line - use the link on the Administrators' homage). 
      ENRICH 
      Primarily designed for married couples or long-term cohabiting couples, to be used as a marriage/relationship enrichment or marriage/relationship counselling resource. 
      MATE 
      Primarily designed for couples over 50 as a relationship exploration resource as couples face transitions associated with the later stages of the family life cycle or for couples marrying later in life. 
      This resource is available for purchase ($15) by accredited Administrators (Enrich training is necessary for MATE). To order MATE just go to back to the Administrators Home Page and use the ordering materials link. 
News Update:  
    End of year closedown for the Prepare-Enrich office takes place over the period
    December 18 to January 4.  

    The last day for processing in 2003 is Wednesday December 17 and the office reopens in 2004 on Monday January 5.

    Processing  for the old (pre-version 2000) versions of the Prepare-Enrich inventories is no longer available. 

    If you have not yet updated your accreditation to Version 2000 please see the list of Training Days and update as soon as possible.  Remember that Version 2000 was introduced in 1998 - you can easily tell whether you are Version 2000 trained by looking in your Manual at the title page inside the cover.