This brief quiz is designed to get you thinking about your teaching style. Read each statement and decide whether it is true or false. Then review the Teaching Styles Tip Sheet in this Toolkit.
Community healthy marriage initiatives have developed throughout the past decade with different goals and objectives.1 Most are spearheaded by a community- or faith-based leader who brings likeminded people together with the common goal of strengthening marriage in their community. This Case Study examines a statewide approach to delivering healthy marriage and relationship education (MRE) through […]
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 […]
The percentage of children under the age of 18 who live with two parents decreased steadily for several decades (from approximately 85% in 1970 to approximately 68% by the mid-1990s1). Beginning in the mid-1990s, this decrease leveled off and the proportion of U.S. children who live with two married parents has since remained at approximately […]
For many years, immigrants have come to the United States for economic opportunities, religious and political freedom, and to make better lives for themselves and their families. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division reported that the United States has the largest number of international migrants of any country in the […]