Implementing Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs within Different Organizational Structures
Feb 01, 2012
This report, created by the Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood Technical Assistance Team, describes leading program models and how their respective organizational structures influence community partnerships, marketing, recruitment, rentention, program evaluation, and sustainable strategies.
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Data-Driven Decision Making: Documenting Program Progress and Success
Jan 30, 2012
This report, created by the Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood Technical Assistance Team, 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.
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Building Healthy Relationships: The Work of Local Grantees in Supporting Low-Income Married Couples
Jan 27, 2012
This report, created by the Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood Technical Assistance Team, provides a detailed snapshot of federal grantees providing marriage enhancement and skills training for married couples from 2006 through 2011.
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School of Thought: Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Matters to Our Youth
Jan 26, 2012
The experiences of 15 state and community organizations in delivering group-based relationship education services to high-school age youth.
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Meet the Marriage Killer
Jan 25, 2012
Nagging - the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed - is an issue every couple will grapple with at some point, the Wall Street Journal reports. Though the subject provokes chuckles and eye-rolling, the dynamic can be as dangerous to a marriage as adultery or bad finances. It's exactly the type of toxic communication that can eventually sink a relationship.
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Can Marital Education Program Heal Wounds of Infidelity?
Jan 23, 2012
Researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Denver evaluated 662 military couples who were going through treatment as usual (therapy) or the Prevention and Relationship Education Program (PREP), an in-depth marriage education program that addresses core issues of relationships. Of the participants, nearly one-fourth reported infidelity prior to treatment. The researchers assessed the participants’ level of marital satisfaction and communication skills prior to treatment, after treatment, and 1 year later.
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