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Marriage Education for Couples Becoming Parents. (Part of Education & Communication / African American Healthy Marriage Initiative)

The transition to parenthood, especially with a first child, creates a fundamental life change for the couple involved. The transition requires couples to adapt their relationship and individual roles, improve their communication skills, and contend with their existing life responsibilities while assuming responsibility for a child. Expectant couples are naturally concerned about the well-being of […]

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Strengthening Families in the Korean/Asian Immigrant Community

This white paper on “”Strengthening Families in the Korean/Asian Immigrant Community”” has been prepared for the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor in support of Secretary Elaine Chao’s goals for a secure workforce, a prepared workforce, and a competitive workforce. Prior research indicates that domestic violence impacts a victim’s ability to seek and retain employment. […]

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Effectively Launching Your Healthy Marriage Program

This presentation provides attendees with strategies to address three key start-up and operational aspects of their healthy marriage programs–service delivery strategy, personnel, and logistics, and their implications on a successful program launch. Includes concepts and frameworks for programs that want to enhance service delivery, retention and recruitment. (Author abstract)

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09 Jan
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Recruitment and Marketing to Couples and Individuals

The learning objectives of this presentation were: 1) to understand the various stages involved in successfully recruiting participants into healthy marriage programs; 2) learn about marketing and recruitment strategies, challenges, and successes from three healthy marriage programs; and 3) gain insights to help attendees develop appropriate marketing and recruitment strategies.

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09 Jan
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Summary of Issues to be Considered in Program Implementation

This memo summarizes themes and guidance on the topics of engaging Hispanic families, developingprogram structures, and establishing trust with program participants as it relates to marriage programs asdiscussed during the Administration for Children and Families Hispanic Healthy Marriage Researchmeeting. The findings and recommendations in this memo are drawn from discussions at the SupportingHealthy Marriage and […]

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09 Jan
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Marital Status : 2000

This report, part of a series that presents population and housing data collected by Census 2000, presents data on the marital status of people aged 15 and over. It describes marital status distributions forthe United States, including regions, states, counties, and places with populations of 100,000 or more. Highlights include marital status patterns by age,sex, […]

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09 Jan
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Families and Living Arrangements in 2005

State and local governments pay attention to households when making decisions about issues such as traffic patterns and school lunch programs. A broad spectrum of decision makers look to U.S. Census Bureau data to help them understand how the characteristics of families and living arrangements have changed over the decades. While many adults live alone, […]

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Gender Norms and the Role of the Extended Family

This memo outlines issues raised regarding traditional Hispanic gender roles and the importance of the extended family as presented during the Administration for Children and Families Hispanic Healthy Marriage Research meeting. The findings and recommendations in this memo are drawn from discussions at the Supporting Healthy Marriage and Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative Joint Research Meeting […]

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Summary of Issues to be Considered in Curriculum Adaptations

When providing marriage and relationship education to Hispanic couples, practitioners must be aware of a multitude of cultural components that influence how couples will respond to a curriculum, or if the curriculum will even be effective as a learning device. Adaptations must be made on a variety of issues to ensure that the concepts and […]

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Can Media Campaigns Strengthen Marriage and Couple Relationships? What We Can Learn From Media Campaign Evaluation Research

The purpose of this paper is to explore the following question: Could a media campaign approach to marriage education be successful in helping individuals and couples form and sustain healthy marriages? We conclude that media campaigns could be effective. We review what public health communication scholars have learned from evaluations of past media campaigns (e.g., […]

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