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, […]
Data-Driven Decision Making: Documenting Program Progress and Success
This report describes how healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood programs integrate data into daily operations and how evaluation has been used to document program implementation and outcomes. Download Report
The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the effectiveness of a skills-based relationship education program designed to help low-income married couples strengthen their relationships and, in turn, support more stable and more nurturing home environments and more positive outcomes for children. The evaluation is led by MDRC, in collaboration with […]
Understanding the Emotional Cycle of Deployment Worksheet
Worksheet to accompany Emotional Cycle of Deployment presentation – National Guard Toolkit
Tossed on a Sea of Change:
As a result of changing funding requirements, rapidly evolving program priorities, and increasing demands for evidence-based practice, the field of responsible fatherhood has, in some sense, lost its center of gravity. It has been “tossed on a sea of change.” The purpose of this report is to establish where the field has landed. Purpose Based […]