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CES Marriage and Couples Educational Resource Package

Designed for Cooperative Extension System (CES) educators, this resource packet contains materials for promoting marriage and couples workshops and training sessions. Information is provided on marriage and couples’ education as a community priority and suggested roles for extension educators in marriage and couples’ education, including providing direct education, serving as a community catalyst, and promoting […]

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The Alabama Department of Child Abuse Prevention – The Children’s Trust Fund 2007-2008 Evaluation Report

The Alabama Department of Child Abuse Prevention (DCAP) — The Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) has a more than 25 year history as the only state agency explicitly focused on educating our communities about child abuse and neglect and providing prevention programs. DCAP is focused on supporting family-strengthening community programs and investing upfront in efforts to […]

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Intimate Partner Violence

Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) indicate that in 1998 about 1 million violent crimes were committed against persons by their current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends. Such crimes, termed intimate partner violence, are committed primarily against women. About 85% of victimizations by intimate partners in 1998, about 876,340, were against women. […]

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Marital Status and Substance Use Among Women

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks persons aged 12 or older to report their tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drug use during the month prior to the interview. Tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco (i.e., chewing tobacco or snuff), and pipe tobacco. Binge alcohol use is defined as drinking five or […]

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The “”Green Book”” Demonstration

This fact sheet describes the interagency demonstration project, referred to as the Green Book Initiative, which supports the implementation of the recommended policy and practice guidelines featured in the Green Book. Within selected jurisdictions, the Initiative fosters and enhances collaborations among domestic violence service providers; child protective services; juvenile, family, and criminal courts; and community […]

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Fathering After Violence: Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervised Visitation

This guide is intended to assist the grantees of the Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program (Supervised Visitation Program or SVP) that want to enhance the safety and well-being of women and children by working more deliberately with abusive fathers who use the centers to visit their children. Although fathers are not […]

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Working With Couples

The purpose of this Webinar is to help granteesand programs expand their understanding of theneeds, goals and life circumstances of thecouples they are likely to serve with healthymarriage programming.

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The Marriage Calculator: Financial Consequences of Marriage Decisions

The Marriage Calculator helps policy makers, researchers, and the general public to understand the financial consequences of marriage for individuals earning less than about $40,000 per year. Users can see how taxes and public assistance change when a couple’s living arrangement changes from living apart to cohabiting to married. This is a general use tool. […]

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Knapsack Project : Louisiana Healthy Marriage Initiative. Final Report

The Louisiana Healthy Marriage “”Knapsack”” Project was a three-year Children’s Bureau funded demonstration initiative which was added to the existing menu of services offered to families served by the Louisiana Department of Social Services, Office of Community Services’ (DSS/OCS) Family Resource Centers (FRC’s). The Knapsack Project’s goals were to enhance and stabilize the environment in […]

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