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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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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09 Jan
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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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What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Role of Healthy Couple Relationships and Marriages in Promoting Child, Family, and Community Well-being

There is an increasing focus on healthy couple relationships and marriages in family life education and Cooperative Extension programs. The research clearly indicates the ways in which healthy couple/marital functioning benefits individuals, children, and communities. Conversely, unhealthy couple relationships and marriages are clearly linked, both directly and indirectly, to adverse individual, family, and community outcomes. […]

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09 Jan
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Offering Relationship and Marriage Education in Your Community

Planning and implementing marriage and relationship education requires attention to the environment, the setting, potential participants, and the type of educational program to be delivered. However, often overlooked for program success are required technical skills and knowledge, development of an ethical vision, and the need for reciprocity and negotiation within the context of the community. […]

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09 Jan
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Working with Low-resource and Culturally Diverse Audiences

A growing challenge for family educators is effectively providing family education for low-resource and culturally diverse audiences. These audiences have not been served well in the past, and family educators need to find more appropriate ways of providing programming for these populations. This paper provides family educators with strategies for learning about and partnering with […]

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09 Jan
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Implementation of the Building Strong Families Program

The Building Strong Families (BSF) project is a large-scale program demonstration and rigorous evaluation to learn whether well-designed interventions can help interested romantically involved unmarried parents build stronger relationships and fulfill their aspirations for a healthy marriage if they choose to wed. The central question of the evaluation is whether interventions can succeed in helping […]

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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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Effective Facilitation: Tips for improving skills and engaging audiences

Getting the most out of marriage and family skill building classes requires more than a good curriculum. Having an effective facilitator is the key to a successful program. A good facilitator is the leader of the class, is invested in the outcomes and the mission of the class, and is knowledgeable about process and course […]

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