Each year the Healthy Marriage grantees serve a diverse group of participants across the United States. Since the beginning of the OMB approved data collection in 2012, HM participants have been characterize by a high degree of diversity in all of the demographic variables – age, sex, marital status, employment status. Read more.
The U.S. Census Bureau launched a newly designed website for the ACS on June 23. The website contains terminology consistent with census.gov, allowing users to quickly find information. http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/
Excerpt from the A Notice by the Commerce Department on 04/28/2015 …"Regarding the marital history questions, the Census Bureau received 1,361 comments from researchers and professors, professional associations that represent marriage and family therapists, the Social Security Administration (SSA), and many individuals interested in retaining these questions. SSA commented that it uses the marital history […]
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education(RME)programs. Readers are introduced to the best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective RME programs to better prepare them to teach clients how to have healthy intimate relationships. Read more.
Introduction to a Trauma Informed Approach in Relationship Education Childhood trauma impacts growth and success in all areas of a young person’s life, including their capacity to form and maintain healthy relationships. Learn what trauma informed care is and its importance in the development of healthy relationships in a pre-recorded presentation from Carolyn Rich […]
Follow this link to down load application documents: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=276477
The Office of Family Assistance will conduct a series of webinars to provide an overview of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA). Each webinar will last 90 minutes. Office of Family Assistance "Pre-Application Webinar Series" Date: May 18 – 21, 2015 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST […]
Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation (FaMLE) & Cross-Site project Performance Measures Webinars Please attend the following webinars for information on a range of programming, performance measure, and evaluation issues for the current Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood/ReFORM grant competition. If you miss or can’t attend a webinar, all webinars and slides will be […]
Marriage Opportunity: The Moment for National Action | Marriage Opportunity Council Institute for American Values, 2015 A public appeal from 103 U.S. scholars and leaders to "make marriage achievable for all who seek it" by reducing legal, social, and economic barriers to marriage. The statement also announces the formation of the Marriage Opportunity Council, […]
Responding to public comments, a new set of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood performance measures have been proposed (an additional set of instruments for a cross-site evaluation with a subset of grantees have also been proposed). Please see a short overview at: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/03/23/2015-06534/submission-for-omb-review-comment-request. This Notice has information on how to request a document containing all […]