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'The Vow's' real-life couple continue telling love story
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"You are being honored by an organization called The National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education," publicist Julie Fairchild informed them ...

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Make it a Great Father's Day!

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Make it a Great Father's Day!

The Best Father’s Day Story!

With Father's Day upon us, HRC discovered this video that shares a father's story of the power of love, courage, and dedication. To all the dads, watch this clip and be inspired to go all out in your love for your kids ... no matter what it takes! Happy Father's Day from all of us at Healthy Relationships California.

Dick Hoyt has touched the hearts of many fathers with his example of selfless love and taught us all—even mothers—pure love and what can really come of it. Some would say miracles.

Fatherhood and Marriage by the Numbers

By Steve Cooper (Guest writer from Hitched Media)

We've all heard the saying (or something like it) before, "Any guy can conceive a child, but it takes a real man to be a father." So what does that mean exactly? It starts with dads giving their time.

Research Shows Couples Can Increase Marital Happiness, Even Those on the Brink

Researchers at Healthy Relationships California have found strong gains in marital satisfaction among 17,245 participants of Marriage Education programs in California, the nation’s largest study on the immediate and long-term impact of Marriage Education.

Before taking a Marriage Education course, only 44% of married persons considered themselves happy with their relationship, while 56% were moderately or highly distressed about their marriage. Six months after taking a skills-based Marriage Education course, only 32% of participants were moderately or highly distressed, while more than 68% were satisfied with their relationship—a 55% increase in the number of people feeling satisfied with their marriage.

Is your relationship the best it can be?

What is Relationship and Marriage Education?

Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) refers to skills-based educational approaches, often preventive in nature, in which individuals or couples are taught skills to increase effective communication, success in resolving problems and conflicts with their spouse/partner, and skills and attitudes that increase marital commitment and satisfaction as well as family stability.

Find Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) Classes throughout California! >>>

Your gift can help prevent a divorce!

Are you looking to make a Father's Day contribution to enable another couple to get the help they need? Consider making a gift to Healthy Relationships California. While HRC has Federal funding for certain, restricted activities, the relationship needs of marriages and families in our state is great!

Your contribution can go a long way to help HRC make more Relationship and Marriage Education classes available to more people in more communities. And you will have the satisfaction of having made a big difference to the quality of people's lives.

Make an online donation today >>>

Who is HRC?

California's Go-To Relationship and Marriage Education Resource

Healthy Relationships California (HRC), formerly known as California Healthy Marriages Coalition, is a non- profit organization that provides skills- based Relationship and Marriage Education (RME) programs through its partnering organizations.

Over the last five years, more than 125,000 people have attended a RME class sponsored by our organization.

Testimonials

Dads Improve Their Family Home Through RME

“I have found new ways of communication with myself and my wife, and at the same time with my children. It was only four weeks or rather, four workshops, and I learned quite a lot. My relationship with my family has slowly been improving, using the methods and skills the program teaches.”

-Daniel

“I have used techniques from the class with my spouse and teenager.”

-Ronald

"...I feel I can change the many flaws that I had not noticed.

If I change, I can help my family and my community. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much.”
-Rodrigo

HRC in the News

San Diego Reader

Relationship Education Yields Benefits

HRC's research is featured in the San Diego Reader, the largest alternative press paper in the county of San Diego publishing weekly.

Read the full article >>>

NEWS & TIPS

	20 Awesome Parenting Quotes (Power of Two) >>>
	Passion, Parenting and Keeping the Spark Alive (Two of Us) >>>
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	The Third Option...Bringing Hope Back to Life (Facebook) >>>
	How to Celebrate Father's Day (WikiHow) >>>

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Reminder SSHD Webinar Tomorrow: Contexts and Implications of Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage across Adulthood

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Till Death do us Part:

Contexts and Implications of Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage across Adulthood

This is a reminder that you have registered for the Society for the Study of Human Development Webinar. You can attend the webinar from anywhere, as long as you have (1) a computer and (2) a high-speed, broadband connection to the Internet. Wireless is OK, but it's best if you have a "hard-wired" connection, i.e., you have a cable that connects directly from your computer to your modem or to an Ethernet jack in the wall. To hear, you need speakers or headphones that connects to your computer.

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Join Industry Leaders!! Register today for the 2012 NARME Conference in Baltimore, MD!

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2012 NARME

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National Association for Relationship & Marriage Education (NARME) Conference

CFUF is co-sponsoring NARME's 2nd Annual Conference! Join leaders, practitioners, policymakers, and community members to discuss the latest data to reduce the cycle of poverty, enhance relationships and increase the health and well-being of children, adults and families!

Conference Agenda

Want to attend this year's conference for FREE?!

NARME is seeking volunteers to assist staff with workshop sessions (AND you get to participate in the workshop you are assisting). Additionally, volunteers are reimbursed for parking and provided with lunch each day volunteering.

Individuals who volunteer from July 22nd-25th attend the conference for FREE!

Volunteer Form:

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CFUF has partnered with the Open Society Foundations to formally establish the Practitioners' Leadership Institute (PLI). The PLI is a national initiative designed to build the capacity of and serve as a replication model for community and faith-based organizations, government agencies and other institutions engaged in efforts to structure, implement, and/or manage high-quality Responsible Fatherhood and Family Strengthening programs.

Visit our booth at the conference!

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Celebrating Fathers -- June 2012

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Celebrating Fathers

June 2012

The Changing Face of Fatherhood

Fathers & Fathering in Contemporary Contexts

2012 Conference Materials and

NCFMR Data Resources Available

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research recently organized a national conference to examine and discuss the changing face of fatherhood. The conference also provided an opportunity to address 15 years of change by reviewing Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood, 1998 Report, findings and recommendations from the 1997 Conference on Fathering and Male Fertility.

Additionally, we took this opportunity to add Fathers to our Resources by Topic, organizing our data resources addressing fatherhood and fathering. A few highlights are below:

On average, men are 27.4 years old when they become fathers, 1.8 years older than first-time fathers twenty years ago (FP-11-04)

Comparing men who married in the 1990s to those who married in the 2000s, the proportion has nearly doubled (6% vs. 11%) for those entering a first marriage already having had two or more children (FP-12-09)

Black and Hispanic men report having more children, on average, than White men -- 45% of Hispanic men and 40% of Black men have three or more children compared to only 20% of White men (FP-11-10)

Among male same-sex households, 11% include biological, step, or adopted children (FP-10-08)

15% of fathers who exit the labor force do so to care for a minor child (FP-12-10)

Black non-resident fathers are more likely to report frequent visitation (36%) than both their White (25%) and Hispanic (20%) counterparts (FP-12-02)

Link to Fathers & Fathering conference webpage to view presenter abstracts, presentations, and posters.

Link to Fathers Resources by Topic to view NCFMR data resources such as Family Profiles, Measures Snapshots, and Question Crosswalks.

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research, established in 2007 by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to improve our understanding of how family structure and marriage affect the health and well-being of families, adults, children, and communities and to inform policy development and programmatic responses.

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The Partnership Center News: Webinar/Conference Call on ACF's Guide to Resources and Funding for Community and Faith-based Organizations

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Webinar/Conference Call for Faith and Community Leaders

on the Administration for Children and Families’

Guide to Resources and Funding for Community and Faith-based Organizations

On Thursday, June 21^st, the HHS Partnership Center and the Administration for Children and Families will co-host a webinar/conference call for faith and community leaders on ACF’s new Guide to Resources and Funding for Community and Faith-based Organizations. The guide offers an overview of the wide range of programs and resources provided by ACF, the many resources and toolkits available for any community or faith-based organization, basic information about finding and applying for federal funds, and specific information about ACF’s competitive grant opportunities for nonprofits.

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Marriage Monthly: Advice to the Groom, Marriage In the News, A Guide to the Beatitudes for Catholic Couples

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Fathers, Word Games, Geometry and More...

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Dear William,

First and foremost, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY on Sunday to all of you wonderful fathers out there! Listeners Unite features a tribute to fathers in the Listening Quotes Libraries. To see these great quotes by and about great fathers, click here! :) Also this month, I'd like to share two poems, a listening wish and an invitation to share your wishes, too.

THE WORD GAME
A Poem with a Listening Theme

This month, I posted a poem about listening called The Word Game, which offers a glimpse into the mind of a child who wonders about this "word game" we call conversation. To read the poem, click here.

Along with The Word Game, I posted a photograph called Vanishing Point, which shows a face disappearing into the background. Children who don't feel they are heard find ways of disappearing; the child in the poem tries to give up her voice, as she sees no purpose in speaking when no one seems to be listening. To see the photograph, which is posted below the poem, click here.

GEOMETRY 101

The Story of a Circle and a Square :)

My poem, Geometry 101, which tells a little story of a circle and a square, has been posted on Morgen Bailey's Post-Weekend Poetry Page. Click here to read the poem.

A LISTENING WISH

& an Invitation to Share your Wishes

I shared the following listening wish on a Wish Tree; the tree was part of the Imagine Peace Project:

"I wish that every child would be listened to, encouraged, and respected-and that they would continue to be treated that way for the rest of their lives." - Linda Eve Diamond

To read about this project, Yoko Ono's Wish Trees, and how you can share your wishes online, click here.

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For more updates and recent posts, please visit the Poetry Library and the Bulletin Board at LindaEveDiamond.com.

For those interested in listening-related news and updates, visit the In Listening News page at Listeners Unite. These updates are also available by following Listeners Unite on Twitter.

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Tip of the Week: June 12, 2012

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Helping People Live Their Best Lives

This Week's Relationship Tip

Growing Closer

Of all the ways partners can grow closer to one another, the most important one is to speak and listen to one another from their hearts. One sure sign of this kind of communication is when I hear a husband say "I could see that my wife was angry but I suspected that she was really feeling hurt because I hadn't helped her with some chores" or when I hear a wife say "I could see that my husband was pulling away and I thought perhaps he was worried he would disappoint me...so he decided not to say anything at all."...

To read the rest of Growing Closer, Click Here

Wanda Sevey, M.Div, LMFT is a Senior Staff Therapist and Director of CFR's New Jersey office. She can be reached at 856-783-4200 ext. 1.

For many more tips and articles on a variety of topics, please visit Council for Relationship's Tip of the Week Archive.

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If you work with couples, you won't want to miss this year's Treating Couples Conference. Make sure to mark your calendars for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd for our annual conference, "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Our Clinical Attitudes Towards Infidelity." We'll be joined for the day by renowned infidelity expert, couples therapist and best-selling author Esther Perel.

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DCoE June Webinar – Intimate Partner Violence: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

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Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) presents:

DCoE June Webinar – http://www.dcoe.health.mil/Training/MonthlyWebinars.aspx" target="_blank">Intimate Partner Violence: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

June 28, 2012, 1-2:30 p.m. (EDT)

Overview

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem in the United States. Nearly three of 10 women and one of 10 men have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by a partner (Black et al., 2011). IPV victims are at risk for a variety of psychological health problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and substance misuse.

Several factors (e.g., being violent or aggressive, alcohol misuse) may increase the risk of someone hurting his/her partner. Research has suggested the co-occurrence of IPV and PTSD may be related to combat experiences.

This webinar will address the impact of IPV on victims psychological health and identify appropriate screening methods for signs of abuse. In addition, this webinar will examine the relationship between IPV and PTSD, emphasizing provider-level strategies for IPV perpetration.

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April A. Gerlock Ph.D., ARNP
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