The Australian Government is delivering this trial to 100,000 committed couples from July 1 2014. Couples in the trial are able to access a $200 subsidy for relationship education and counselling which can include sessions on parenting, conflict resolution and financial management. Read more.
Last month, the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) – www.frpn.org – launched to promote rigorous evaluation of fatherhood programs serving low-income fathers. Over the next three years, the FRPN will award grants to projects evaluating fatherhood programs. The purpose of these grants is to increase the number and quality of evaluations of […]
UK relationship charity OnePlusOne launches the search for the nation’s best ‘Love Nuggets’ – a quest to uncover and celebrate the everyday things people do that make a happy relationship. Read more.
The Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced new one-year non-competing continuation grants for Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood and Tribal TANF Child Welfare programs. Read More.
Health care and family systems professionals urge congress to acknowledge the critical role of spousal and family caregivers in the prevention, care and treatment of the chronically ill in the Better Care, Lower Cost Act. Blog post: Better Care, Lower Cost Act S. 1932 – A vehicle to promote couple and family-centered, integrated […]
The Secondary Analyses of Strengthening Families Datasets grant program is an opportunity to conduct data analysis using the Building Strong Families, Supporting Healthy Marriage, and Community Healthy Marriage Initiative datasets. Those selected for this grant will also collaborate with fellow grantees to advance research focused on strengthening families. Read More
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Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN), a project funded through ACF's Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation launches website and funding opportunity. The FRPN co-directors are Jay Fagan, Ph.D. social work professor at Temple University, and Jessica Pearson, Ph.D., director of the Center for Policy Research, a Denver-based policy research firm. The project seeks to: […]
A Family-Strengthening Program for Low-Income Families: Final Impacts from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation Perspectives of Low-Income African-American and Latino Couples on Relationship Education Do the Effects of a Relationship Education Program Vary for Different Types of Couples? Exploratory Subgroup Analysis in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
It's part of the demand-withdraw pattern, and both partners have to take responsibility to change it A meta-analysis of 74 studies encompassing more than 14,000 participants, published in the March 2014 Communication Monographs, found the demand-withdraw pattern to be one of the most damaging types of relationship conflict and one of the hardest patterns […]