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The National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-Entering Fathers and their Partners : Program Models of MFS-IP Grantees

This brief describes the context in which Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-entering Fathers and their Partners (MFS-IP) are operating, the populations served by the programs, and the program models in use among the grantees. (Author abstract)

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Partnering Head Start With: The Healthy Marriage/ Responsible Fatherhood Connection [PowerPoint Presentation]

This PowerPoint presentation provides information on the benefits of healthy marriages and father involvement for children and explains the goals of the federal Healthy Marriage initiative. It cites statistics that indicate 45% of children raised by divorced mothers and 69% raised by never-married mothers live in or near poverty. It discusses culturally competent strategies for […]

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Building a Home With Heart: Couples Curriculum for Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Parents. Helping Professional’s and Facilitator’s Guide

The purpose of this curriculum is: 1. To acknowledge and understand that raising children from foster care presents unique challenges and opportunities for a couple’s relationship; 2. To help couples strengthen their friendship by honoring each other’s history, feelings and uniqueness as a person; 3. To help couples manage the inevitable decisions and conflicts that […]

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09 Jan
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Building a Home With Heart: Couples Curriculum for Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Parents. Couple’s Notebook

The purpose of this curriculum is: 1. To acknowledge and understand that raising children from foster care presents unique challenges and opportunities for a couple’s relationship; 2. To help couples strengthen their friendship by honoring each other’s history, feelings and uniqueness as a person; 3. To help couples manage the inevitable decisions and conflicts that […]

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The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation: Practice Models from the States

Faith community liaisons–official contacts at the state or local level between government and faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs)–have been established in at least 36 states and in many localities as of 2008. Their work typically entails facilitating partnerships with and within the FBCO community, encouraging the organizational capacity of FBCOs, and educating both faith-based organizations […]

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09 Jan
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Asset Building over the Life Course. Final Report

This report provides a conceptual framework that describes how asset accumulation unfolds over an individual’s lifetime and how the effects of such accumulation can best be understood within the context of the life course. The report identifies five factors that are important in understanding the low levels of asset accumulation among low-income households and places […]

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09 Jan
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Marriage and Relationship Education: Tips for Practitioners Working with Adoptive Couples

Adoption professionals and those in the marriage and relationship education (MRE) field are becoming more aware of the special issues adoptive couples face in their marriages. Practitioners from both disciplines may want to consider ways to bridge these two fields together by offering MRE classes in adoptive-parent training at both public and private adoption agencies […]

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09 Jan
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What Works in Marriage and Relationship Education? A Review of Lessons Learned with a Focus on Low-Income Couples

Economically disadvantaged children are more likely to grow up in unstable single-parent households and have much less access to the financial and emotional support of their noncustodial parent (typically the father). Family instability places children at risk for a number of negative outcomes and plays a large part in the growing disparities of income and […]

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Conceptualizing and Measuring “Healthy Marriage” For Empirical Research and Evaluation Studies: A Review of the Literature and Annotated Bibliography (Task Three)

Marriage and couple relationships constitute an area of intense interest for researchers as well as policymakers. One of the goals of the Healthy Marriages study is to inform current discussions regarding the measurement of aspects of the quality of marital relationships. This literature review and annotated bibliography represent several products of Child Trends’ project to […]

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