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Collaborative, family-centered practice has become an influential approach in helping efforts across a broad spectrum of human services. This article draws from previous work that presented a principle-based, practice framework of Collaborative Helping and highlighted the use of Collaborative...
Since the mid-1990s, the federal government has funded numerous relationship skills programs, including some specifically targeting low-income, unmarried parents, in an effort to strengthen couples' relationships and increase family stability. The previous research on the effectiveness of these...
This fact sheet focuses on why learning about healthy marriage and relationship education is important to Child Welfare professionals and includes an overview of the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training project and curriculum.
This tip sheet offers a description of each of the seven basic concepts of the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training curriculum including Care for Self, Choose, Know, Care, Share, Manage, and Connect.
This guide is designed to enhance the knowledge of evidence-informed and promising practices that address the needs of expectant and parenting youth in foster care and their children, and to provide a comprehensive set of resources for jurisdictions interested in achieving safety, permanency,...
Building Strong Families programs provide relationship education and other support services to unmarried couples with young children. This study used data from the 15-month Building Strong Families evaluation to test the hypothesis that the degree of social and economic disadvantage moderates...
Although self-directed marriage and relationship education (MRE) has the potential to reach a larger or different audience than traditional MRE, little has been done to examine the characteristics of self-directed MRE participants. This study examined whether various individual, couple, family,...
Couples and relationship education (CRE) programs indicate positive results for low-income couples who attend. However, most studies examined relationship satisfaction or communication patterns, with few addressing the influence of CRE on parental alliance and even fewer examining parental...
Although healthy relationship initiatives are becoming more common, relatively little is known about the processes of these initiatives. This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach to examine the experiences of Family and Consumer Science (FCS) Extension faculty in the implementation...
Smart Steps: Embrace the Journey is a research-based educational curriculum for stepfamily couples ('stepcouples'). The curriculum is designed to build couple strengths while addressing the unique challenges of repartnering with a child or children from a previous relationship. This study...