09
Jan
8 hours to a lifetime of relationship satisfaction
8 hours to a lifetime of relationship satisfaction Participant Handbook: A Relationship Enrichment Course for Couples Living with MS Read more
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09
Jan
Girls not Brides Theory of Change
Every year 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. How do we get from here to a world without child marriage, where girls and women enjoy equality with boys and men, and are empowered to reach their full potential? Girls not Brides Theory of Change maps out the multiple strategies and […]
09
Jan
Strengthening What Works
In an effort to improve the health and well-being of hard to reach, under served, and vulnerable populations and advance the prevention of IPV, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) invested in a pioneering effort to evaluate eight diverse IPV prevention programs for immigrants and refugees. LTG Associates was the National Program Office. Strengthening What Works […]
09
Jan
Why Marriage and Relationship Education Matters to Safety-Net Service Providers
This fact sheet outlines reasons why supporting and integrating healthy marriage education skills should matter to safety-net service providers.
09
Jan
Strengthening Families Curriculum Resource Guide
This online Resource Guide was developed with the assistance of National Healthy Marriage Resource Center staff. The guide provides information about the content and select features of curricula commonly used by Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees. The Guide can be used to search for curriculum features of interest, such as […]
09
Jan
An Evidence Framework to Improve Results
A framework put forward by the Friends of Evidence that explores the question: How do we use a framework of continuous learning to obtain and apply the kinds of evidence that will be most useful in achieving significantly greater outcomes? Read more about CSSP, Friends of Evidence and the 2014 Symposium on the Future […]
09
Jan
A vehicle to promote couple and family-centered, integrated care for chronically ill seniors
Also posted on The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association's website. It is seldom that family-centered health care professionals get an opportunity to directly influence national health care policy. Alerted by Theodora Ooms and Jana Staton, several members of CFHA recently saw an opening when Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) introduced the Better Care, Lower […]
09
Jan
Case Manager’s Toolkit
This toolkit is designed for community-based practitioners working in a case management setting with couples. It will help guide the worker to web-based resources and a wealth of information, products and materials that further support case managers in their work with couples in a one-on-one setting. Ultimately, our goal is to provide resources that: […]
09
Jan
A Family-Strengthening Program for Low-Income Families Final Impacts from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) was a yearlong voluntary marriage education program to help strengthen couples' relationships. SHM had small sustained positive effects on marital quality more than a year after the program ended but did not achieve its objectives of leading more couples to stay together or improving children’s well-being. MDRC SHM Overview Link
09
Jan
Facilitating Forever
High levels of divorce, cohabitation, and fragile unions, especially among the less educated in the United States, mean that unprecedented numbers of children are growing up in families without two parents in a healthy, stable relationship. This family instability poses increased risks to children’s well-being and healthy development. This report by Alan J. Hawkins, […]