In The Forever Initiative, Hawkins calls for more state-directed public support for a series of educational efforts to help individuals and couples form healthy relationships and enduring marriages. He outlines an integrated set of feasible and affordable educational initiatives across the early life course, beginning in youth, continuing in early adulthood, engagement, and through the […]
This brief describes the adaptations and refinements undertaken by nine selected grantees to make their services more culturally responsive. The adaptations included addressing issues of language, diversity, racism, and immigration, and incorporating cultural constructs like familismo, confianza, personalismo, and respeto. These adaptations were made to improve the recruitment, retention, overall participation, and effectiveness of the […]
The Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation assessed the impacts of eight programs offering a similar model of healthy marriage and relationship skills and support services to interested low-income unmarried parents around the time of the birth of a child. While many unmarried parents live together when their children are born, their relationships are often tenuous […]
Developed and researched by Mark Feinberg, Ph.D., Family Foundations is the result of years of his work as a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and prevention scientist at Penn State University. Many colleagues, professionals, and families contributed to the development and testing of Family Foundations. We appreciate all of their support. NIH provided funding for the […]
Designed to raise awareness about the challenges that military families face when returning home, The Art of Marriage Ops campaign equips military couples with The Art of Marriage DVD series. The Art of Marriage is a Christian-based program designed to strengthen marriages and prevent divorce by providing simple, effective insights for helping couples to cultivate […]
This report summarizes four studies completed between the years 2007 – 2009 that were designed to assess marriage and relationship education recruitment challenges from various perspectives. The report concludes with marketing strategies from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.
This report provides an overview of marriage as a public policy issue. It is intended to bring attention to some important avenues of action that deserve to be explored and expanded.
This activity gives seriously dating and engaged National Guard couples the opportunity to anticipate and discuss some of the challenges inherent to one or both partners being in the Guard.
An activity to help grandparents who are caring for children of deployed soldiers identify support systems.
An activity to boost morale for grandparents who are caring for their deployed son’s or daughter’s children.