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The Resource Center's virtual library collects material from a wide array of organizations available in a variety of formats to build a knowledge base around healthy marriage and relationship education, integration into safety-net service systems, and related topics for couples, educators, policy makers, public service agencies, and other safety-net stakeholders.

Visit our Special Collection: Healthy Dating Leads to Healthy Marriage for resources for youth, parents and service providers on this important topic.

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Communication Skills for You and Your Family.

Communication is the basic building block of our relationships. It is through communication that we convey our thoughts, feelings, and connection to one another. This tip sheet provides families with skills for successful communication. (Author abstract modified)

 
Partnering to Support Families, Safeguard Children.

April was National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This blog post highlights the Children’s Bureau and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preventions’ efforts to protect children and strengthen families.

 
Mobile Coaching: Innovation and Small-scale Experimentation to Better Engage Program Participants in Rural Colorado.

This case study brief offers a qualitative exploration of the La Plata County team’s innovation and experimentation efforts, documenting the perspectives of staff and program participants about Mobile Coaching. The brief describes the team’s design process and road map for change (the logic...
The Innovate Phase: Co-creating Evidence-informed Solutions to Improve Human Services Programs.

The Learn, Innovate, Improve (or LI2) process is a way for human services leaders to intentionally launch and systematically guide program change and to incorporate evidence and research methods into such efforts. This practice brief provides an overview of the second phase of LI2—the Innovate...
Implementation and Relative Impacts of Two Job Search Assistance Programs in New York City.

To assess the relative effectiveness of two different JSA programs in New York City, this evaluation uses an experimental design that randomly assigns job ready cash assistance applicants to the Back to Work (B2W) or Independent Job Search (IJS) program and compares their employment, earnings,...
The Cost of Implementing a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in High School Health Classes.

This brief summarizes key cost findings from the evaluation of the adapted version of Reducing the Risk in Kentucky. It presents information on the resources required to deliver the program for one academic year and the average cost per student. The brief also summarizes how the average cost per...
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Perpetrators: What the Research Suggests

This research brief provides an overview of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), perpetrator typologies, and the effectiveness of Intimate Partner Violence intervention programs.
The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families 2017/2018 Annual Report
Since its inception, the Resource Center continually equips stakeholders to integrate healthy marriage and relationship education skills into their agencies through tailored products (e.g., toolkits, fact sheets), on-the-ground and on-demand trainings (e.g., Integration Institutes and Virtual...
Strengthen Family Relationships to Prevent Teen Dating Violence.

February was Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. Teen dating violence is defined as abuse (physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional) within a dating relationship. This blog post highlights ongoing ACF prevention and intervention efforts aimed at promoting healthy relationships and...
The Learn Phase: Creating Sustainable Change in Human Services Programs.

By using the Learn, Innovate, Improve process (also known as LI2), human services leaders can intentionally launch and systematically guide program change, incorporating evidence and research methods throughout the process. This brief serves to: (1) situate the Learn phase in the context of a...
Do you have something you think is appropriate for the library? While library staff scour various resources seeking items for the collection, it is not possible for staff to have access to all marriage and family-related resources. This is where you can help by sharing materials created by your program so that they may be reviewed or used by program staff, resource families, or related professionals for the purpose of improving service delivery for families.

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