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 […]
U.S. Supreme Court holds that marriage equality is a constitutional right. Marriage is now available to 1 million same-sex couples in the United States. The United States Supreme Court opened marriage to an estimated 1 million same-sex couples nationwide. "As all parties agree, many same-sex couples provide loving and nurturing homes to their […]
The Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) FAQs have been updated. Updated Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education FAQs Updated New Pathways for Fathers and Families FAQs Updated Responsible Fatherhood Opportunities for Reentry and Mobility FAQs Additional details on accessing the FAQs as well as the original announcements are available online.
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 […]
What can couples do to avoid divorce? Hundreds of books, articles, workshops, and lectures have tackled that question. If there were a surefire way to “divorce-proof” a marriage, we would have found it by now. It doesn’t exist. But there are some things married couples can do to minimize their risk of divorce. In a […]