Putting Youth Relationship Education on the Child Welfare Agenda
This document published by Child Trends for a project administered by Public Strategies staff for It’s My Community Initiative and funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a model of change and reviews the research and evaluation evidence on relationship education for foster care youth. In so doing it discusses the needs of disadvantaged […]
2013 Hispanic Healthy Marriage Webinar Series
Improving the Lives of Latino Families through Effective Practice and Research. • Defining the Population: Strengths and Assets • General Needs for Effective Support • Cultural Competence in Working with Latino Families • Marketing and Engagement • Community and Environmental Considerations Link to webinar recording https://collaborate.wolfware.ncsu.edu/play_recording.html?recordingId=1336770965974_1359386677585 Dr. Behnke is an associate professor and human development […]
The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative Evaluation
This report describes the implementation and impacts of selected programs funded through grants awarded to a number of organizations to conduct large-scale, community-wide projects that used “various methods to support healthy marriages community-wide” (Community Healthy Marriage [CHM] Grants to Implement Multiple Allowable Activities: Level 3; Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants. Funding Opportunity Announcement 2006). The projects […]
Tips for MRE Practitioners Working with First Responders
First responders (an elite group including police officers/fire fighters/paramedics) are often regarded as “heroes” who are passionate about their public service roles, and who provide invaluable and life-saving services to the community. However, along with demanding work schedules, some of the core skills that make first responders successful in their job can also create challenges […]
The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families
This report is a technical supplement to the 36-month impact report for the Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation (Wood et al. 2012). It provides additional detail about the research design, analytic methods, and variable construction that were used for the 36-month analysis, as well as a discussion of the subgroup analysis that was conducted. Additionally, […]
The Rate of Cyber Dating Abuse among Teens and How It Relates to Other Forms of Teen Dating Violence
Just over a quarter of youth in a current or recent relationship experience cyber dating abuse victimization, with girls more likely to experience abuse than boys. Victims of sexually-oriented cyber abuse are seven times more likely to experience sexual coercion. These and other findings from a survey of 5,647 youth in three northeastern states shed […]
The State of our Unions 2012
The State of our Unions 2012: THE PRESIDENT’S MARRIAGE AGENDA FOR THE FORGOTTEN SIXTY PERCENT The State of Our Unions monitors the current health of marriage and family life in America. Produced annually, it is a joint publication of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families […]