09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Promising Practices for Marriage and Relationship Education and Child Welfare/Low Income Population Literature Summary Points

This guide provides practice tips for developing and delivering a marriage and relationship education program and for child welfare and low-income populations. The guidelines address: using inclusive lifestyles and language; ensuring culturally competent programs and trainers; understanding different cultures, including the culture of poverty, and gaining the skills needed to effectively work with people who […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

New Parent Support Program from Military Homefront

The first three years of life are critical in a child’s physical, emotional, and intellectual development. Military life presents some unique parenting challenges that civilian families may not face, such as frequent deployments, long duty hours, moves to unfamiliar locations, and separation from extended families and friends. The New Parent Support Program was developed to […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for July 2008

Data shown here are provisional and include only events occurring within the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia). Provisional birth, death, and infant death data in this report are based on a combination of counts of events provided by each reporting area and registered vital events processed into National Center for Health […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Strategies for Couples Dealing with Financial Strain

Money can be the number one source of frustration in relationships. These frustrations ring true for couples regardless of the length of their courtship or the number of years they have been married. This Tip Sheet offers tips to help couples handle the financial strain that often accompanies a long-term relationship. (Author abstract)

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Recruiting Couples That Are Living Together for Relationship Education

This tip sheet offers practical tips to help practitioners meet the needs of couples who are living together. These couples do not always want a long-term future together, so traditional marriage education may not be the best match for these couples. Although many relationship issues are the same, couples who are living together and who […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

The National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-Entering Fathers and their Partners : Program Models of MFS-IP Grantees

This brief describes the context in which Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-entering Fathers and their Partners (MFS-IP) are operating, the populations served by the programs, and the program models in use among the grantees. (Author abstract)

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Partnering Head Start With: The Healthy Marriage/ Responsible Fatherhood Connection [PowerPoint Presentation]

This PowerPoint presentation provides information on the benefits of healthy marriages and father involvement for children and explains the goals of the federal Healthy Marriage initiative. It cites statistics that indicate 45% of children raised by divorced mothers and 69% raised by never-married mothers live in or near poverty. It discusses culturally competent strategies for […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Building a Home With Heart: Couples Curriculum for Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Parents. Helping Professional’s and Facilitator’s Guide

The purpose of this curriculum is: 1. To acknowledge and understand that raising children from foster care presents unique challenges and opportunities for a couple’s relationship; 2. To help couples strengthen their friendship by honoring each other’s history, feelings and uniqueness as a person; 3. To help couples manage the inevitable decisions and conflicts that […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Building a Home With Heart: Couples Curriculum for Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Parents. Couple’s Notebook

The purpose of this curriculum is: 1. To acknowledge and understand that raising children from foster care presents unique challenges and opportunities for a couple’s relationship; 2. To help couples strengthen their friendship by honoring each other’s history, feelings and uniqueness as a person; 3. To help couples manage the inevitable decisions and conflicts that […]

VIEW DETAIL
09 Jan
  • By timcooper
  • Cause in

Asset Building over the Life Course. Final Report

This report provides a conceptual framework that describes how asset accumulation unfolds over an individual’s lifetime and how the effects of such accumulation can best be understood within the context of the life course. The report identifies five factors that are important in understanding the low levels of asset accumulation among low-income households and places […]

VIEW DETAIL

Categories