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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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Retention : If Participants Were Boomerangs ..

This streaming video of the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center Webinar Training entitled “”Retention : If Participants Were Boomerangs …”” held August 15, 2007 discusses grantee concepts and frameworks for programs that promote service delivery, recruitment and retention of marriage education participants.

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After Disclosure Responding to Domestic Violence

Responding to Domestic Violence is the fifth 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 helps prepare healthy marriage and relationship programs to respond when domestic violence is disclosed […]

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Promoting Safety : A Resource Packet for Marriage and Relationship Educators and Program Administrators

Promoting Safety : A Resource Packet for Marriage and Relationship Educators and Program Administrators is 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 full Resource Packet consists of the following: Understanding […]

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Screening and Assessment for Domestic Violence

Screening and Assessment for Domestic Violence is the fourth 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 describes what has been learned to date about how HMR programs might […]

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Living Arrangements of Children in the United States Over Time

The percentage of children under the age of 18 who live with two parents decreased steadily for several decades (from approximately 85% in 1970 to approximately 68% by the mid-1990s1). Beginning in the mid-1990s, this decrease leveled off and the proportion of U.S. children who live with two married parents has since remained at approximately […]

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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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Trends in Percent Ever Married by Age and Race/Ethnicity

While the vast majority of contemporary Americans eventually marry, their age at marriage matters. Early marriage is associated with an increased risk of marital dissolution compared with marriages that occur to older individuals. However, only a minority of Americans now marries in their teens or early twenties. Researchers have also found that individuals who have […]

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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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