Employers are interested in a healthy, vibrant workforce that will ultimately enable their company to be successful and profitable. As a result, many larger companies offer Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) that provide assessment, support, and referrals as needed to aid their employees. EAPs can address work-related productivity issues including healthy intimate partner relationships.
In our society, there are more and more products and services competing for our time and attention. In order to capture the attention of the public and inspire action, service providers must think through the following questions: “How do people choose which activities to invest time and money in?” “How can the benefits of our […]
Healthy marriage policy and programs are the “new kid on the block” in social policy. In the mid-90s several states and communities began to engage in marriage-related reforms and services designed to strengthen marriage and reduce divorce rates. In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) launched a Healthy Marriage Initiative and began funding […]
Been there—the excitement and gratification of feeling like you’ll really and truly make a meaningful impact into the lives of people, in a way that is felt fairly immediately. At the time when I was a state administrator, the idea of anything “marriage” was pretty new, and met with a fair bit of skepticism. What […]
The Learning Styles Assessment is a fun way to learn about your class and the people in it. You can administer this assessment to your participants and also take it yourself. You may want to review the Adult Learning Styles Tip Sheet in this Toolkit as a supplement to this assessment. The Adult Learning Styles […]
This Case Study examines successful approaches to conducting marketing and outreach for healthy relationship and marriage education (MRE) services for Hispanic communities. The Hispanic Active Relationship Project (HARP) in Cameron County, Texas, has developed unique marketing, outreach and recruitment strategies to engage Hispanic communities and encourage participation in marriage and relationship education services.
Marriage/relationship education (MRE) programs are uniquely positioned to identify risk for abuse and to promote healthy and safe relationships. Domestic violence (DV) or intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive and costly problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 4.8 million episodes of IPV occur every year in the United States […]