Meet the Team

• On This Page:
• Current Team Members
• Collaborators
• Former Student Team Members

Current Team Members

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  Ted Futris

  Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Family and Consumer Sciences
  Extension Family Life Specialist

   tfutris@uga.edu

   706-542-9004

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  Evin Winkelman Richardson

  Assistant Research Scientist

   evinr@uga.edu

   706-542-9004

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  Christine Hargrove

  Ph.D. Student in Human Development & Family Science (MFT)

   christine.hargrove@uga.edu

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  Lance Palmer

  Professor

   lpalmer@uga.edu

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  Joseph Goetz

  Professor

   goetz@uga.edu

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  Jerry Gale

  Professor Emeritus

   jgale@uga.edu

   706-542-8435

Collaborators

The CARE Lab team has worked collaboratively with several colleagues to advance the research on couples and relationship education.

Francesca Adler Baeder

Auburn University, Human Development and Family Studies

Project: Dr. Adler Baeder is a co-editor of the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model. She is also co-author of the couple's education curriculum, ELEVATE: Taking your Relationship to the Next Level, that we are currently pilot testing.

Chalandra Bryant

University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development

Project: Dr. Bryant is a co-author on manuscripts examining the influence of social connections, emotional expressions of gratitude, and couple interactions on marital quality.

Chelsea Garneau

University of Missouri, Human Development and Family Studies

Project: Dr. Garneau is co-authoring manuscripts examining how decisions married and remarried couples make around money management are associated with relationship interactions and well-being.

Tara Jordan

Iowa State University, Human Development and Family Studies

Project: Dr. Hurt is a co-author on manuscripts examining the romantic relationship experiences of low-income African American youth and the influence of youth-focused relationship education on their attitudes and beliefs about relationships.

Jacquelyn Mallette

East Carolina University, Human Development and Family Science

Project: Dr. Mallette is a co-author on manuscripts examining the couple and coparenting relationships of teen parents, unmarried at-risk parents, and foster parent couples.

Robert Nielsen

University of Alabama, Department of Consumer Sciences

Project: Dr. Nielsen was the Co-PI (while at UGA) on the Healthy Families, Healthy Finances(HFHF) study that examined the association between relationship functioning and financial management practices among a random statewide sample of married individuals across Georgia.

David Schramm

Utah State University, Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development.

Project: Dr. Schramm was the Co-PI (while at the University of Missouri) on the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training (HRMET) project where, along with our collaborators in North Carolina, Iowa, and Arkansas, we developed and evaluated the efficacy of a training that prepared child welfare professionals to integrate relationship education into their services.

Former Student Team Members