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Promoting Child Welfare : Training Professional to Support Healthy Marriages, Relationships and Families

Many marriage and relationship education programs focus on developing effective communication and conflict resolution skills. While different processes or methods are used, the target skills remain consistent. These skills include assertive communication, I-messages, decision-making, arguing effectively, learning to avoid behaviors that hurt when arguing, and conflict resolution. As a result it is important for professionals […]

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09 Jan
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Coalition Building for a Community Healthy Marriage Initiative

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), DHHS, is committed to helpingcommunities build comprehensive Community Healthy Marriage Initiatives (CHMI) designedto help couples who choose marriage for themselves form and sustain a healthy marriage. Thisinitiative is central to ACF’s mission of assuring the well-being of children. Each communityinterested in developing a CHMI is encouraged to build […]

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09 Jan
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Instructional Guide : Creating and Using the Logic Model for Performance Management

The Logic Model can help organizations design and implement more effective programs. It guides you from your present situation to your long-term goal through a series of progressive steps beginning with activities that lead to outputs and outcomes. As important, the Logic Model helps you to develop a more detailed action plan you can use […]

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09 Jan
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Understanding Domestic Violence: Definitions, Scope, Impact and Response

Understanding Domestic Violence is the first in a series of 5 related Guides developed for relationship and marriage educators and program administrators to help them understand and respond to domestic violence issues that may arise within their programs. This Guide provides a working definition of domestic violence and an introduction to the network of domestic […]

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09 Jan
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Building Effective Partnerships with Domestic Violence Programs

Building Effective Partnerships is the second in a series of 5 related Guides developed for relationship and marriage educators and program administrators to help them understand and respond to domestic violence issues that may arise within their programs. Identifying common ground, creating a shared sense of purpose, and building mutual trust are key to not […]

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Developing Domestic Violence Protocols

Developing Domestic Violence Protocols is the third in a series of 5 related Guides developed for relationship and marriage educators and program administrators to help them understand and respond to domestic violence issues that may arise within their programs. The purpose of this guide is to assist healthy marriage and relationship (HMR) programs and initiatives […]

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09 Jan
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An Economic Framework and Selected Proposals for Demonstrations Aimed At Strengthening Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning Outcomes

The primary purpose of this project is to bring evidence and policy development together by using theories, quantitative evidence, and ethnographic findings about the interactions between marriage, employment, and family functioning to formulate new approaches for programs and policies — approaches that can be tested with rigorously evaluated demonstrations. The focus of the analysis and […]

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09 Jan
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Testimony of Vicki Turetsky, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and MeansU.S. House of Representatives

This testimony was given before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. On April 27, 1999, Turetsky testified on ways to encourage poor mothers and fathers to work together to support and raise their children, including full distribution of child support to families receiving TANF. 8 pages.

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