10) Statewide Healthy Families Initiative Focuses on San Bernardino ...
This innovative approach for strengthening families offers a Parenting Education program, "1,2,3,4 Parents!" along with a Marriage Education program, ...
9) Fighting For Your Marriage | Pdf Search Engine Free Ebooks
How to Use the Money HabitudesTM Cards in Marriage Education ... To learn more specifics about the content of the S/LT, you should read either Fighting for ...
8) Loveland Relationship: 9 Ways to Reinforce the Enrichment of Your ...
By Alfred and Lucinda Loveland
The Lovelands have been involved in marriage education since 2005. They currently facilitate and mentor couples with a research-based curriculum, Mastering the Mysteries of Love, to many couples.
7) http://marriage.com.au/blog/ and http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/marriage-and-women-over-40/
6) Cohabitation before marriage risky
Arizona Republic
For the more than 60 percent of Americans who live together before their first marriage (some experts say it's closer to 85 percent), it seems like a ...
5) Healthy Families, Healthy Children Wine & Cheese Fundraiser ...
Nationally recognized Healthy Marriage Project is announcing the changing of its name to Relationship Skills Center at their Healthy Families, ...
4) Making marriage work for the modern day Marine
Marriage in the military has a combination of stressors unique to service members ... and supporting your Marine is vital to maintaining a healthy marriage. ...
3) Projects to Develop Programs to Strengthen Marriages Final Evaluation Report.
Published: 2007
Sponsoring Organization: Children's Bureau
View Printable Version: Download
This final report discusses the activities and outcomes of a 3-year federally funded project designed to strengthen marriages of adoptive couples. The Project to Develop Programs to Strengthen Marriages provided the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) with an opportunity to strengthen post-adoption services and supports and incorporate a strong marriage education component.
And Evaluation of Marriage Education Servant Leadership Development ...
"Evaluation of Marriage Education Servant Leadership Development (MESLD) Healthy Marriage Program" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 34th Annual ...
2) Lasting marriages combine commitment, passion: Researchers
Montreal Gazette
Putting the 'hopeless' in hopeless romantics, a new study of more than 1400 spouses concludes that one of the flimsiest foundations for a marriage is, ...
And Two-thirds of Americans believe in soul mates: study
Chicago Sun-Times - Sep 22, 2010
Do you believe in soul mates? You might believe that this concept has a role only in cheesy rom-coms, but it turns out that Edward and Bella aren't the only ...
1) The National Campaign and The Dibble Institute are pleased to announce the launch of My Paper Boyfriend. The game focuses on relationships and is designed for teen girls. After customizing the ideal boyfriend the user will encounter challenging scenarios, and their selections will determine how healthy the relationship is. Tell the teens in your life to test their relationship smarts by playing My Paper Boyfriend.*
Bill Coffin
Special Assistant for Marriage Education
ACF/HHS
370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW Washington, DC 20447
(202)260-1550(o);
…We, Government Leaders, invite colleagues and citizens from every political party to engage in renewed
efforts to pursue laws and public policies that promote the well-being of marriages and families…(Excerpt from http://www.hamptonu.edu/ncaamp/proclamation/)
A Guide to Low-Cost Curricula and Resources: Marriage and Relationship, Fatherhood and Parenting,
and Financial Education available at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/pdf/curricula_resources_guide_121509.pdf
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/doc/ACF_Curriculum_Assessment_Guide.doc
http://learning.hhs.gov/elearning/cop.asp
Why Marriage Matters, 26 Conclusions from the Social Sciences
#1 Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers and mothers have good relationships with their children.
#26 A child who is not living with his or her own two married parents is at greater risk for child abuse.
http://center.americanvalues.org/?p=7
From: Family Bridges [sarah@familybridgeschicago.ccsend.com] on behalf of Family Bridges [info@familybridgeschicago.org]
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Dear Friend, We're heading into our fifth year of serving our community and are excited at the new opportunities and developments occurring within our organization. We continue to hear amazing stories from our past and current program participants, and have included them in our latest documentary, which you can view by clicking below.
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| Welcome to Our New Board Members Family Bridges is honored to welcome the following community and business leaders to our board of directors:
Noel Castellanos is the Chief Executive Officer of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) which equips emerging church leaders in the philosophy of community development.
Ruth Donahue is a Benefit Consultant at The Segal Company. an independent benefits, compensation and human resources consulting firm.
Judge Michele Lowrance is a domestic-relations judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County and has been presiding since 1995. She is also the author of the book "Divorce Kharma".
Rick Rivero is President of Connections Marketing, an advertising agency and web development firm in Illinois. Welcome to Family Bridges!
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| More Than a Statistic Each year, almost one third of all public high school students fail to graduate from public high school with their class. A study by Civic Enterprises notes several reasons for why students do not complete high school, however, one reason accounted for one third of them dropping out - the weight of real world events.
26% said they became a parent Many teenage girls who became pregnant were unable to juggle the responsibilities of motherhood and school, so they dropped out. 22% said they had to care for a family member Others had personal circumstances in the home that impaired their ability to focus on school, such as needing to take care for siblings or take care of other tasks because parents were working or otherwise unavailable. According to the study, these teens were doing well in school and believed they would have graduated had they stayed in school. What are we doing to ensure that our teens don't become another statistic?
This report brings to light that school systems are not the only factor in why teens are dropping out of high school, but that family and relationship dynamics play a role as well. It's evident that teaching healthy relationship skills is increasingly important if we're to combat the growing epidemic of high school droupouts.
To-date, Family Bridges has served over 5,000 teens by providing them with skill sets in communication, conflict resolution, understanding risk and safety in relationships, identifying self-destructive behavior, career exploration, expenditure decision making, money management and choice evaluation. And it's working. Here's just one example... After attending a Family Bridges workshop for teen moms, one of the participants shared her story with us. About a year before attending the workshop, she had learned that she was pregnant and, like most teens, was terrified to tell her parents because she was afraid of what their reaction would be. She kept it from them for as long as she could, but the time came where she could no longer keep it a secret. She sat them down and told them she was indeed pregnant and her worst fears came true - her father kicked her out of the house. For months she had been staying with friends until she attended the Love U2 workshop. There she learned how to better communicate and picked up applicable tips on how to resolve conflicts. She decided to put them to practice and see for herself how effective they were. After months of not speaking to her parents, she went home to talk to them. Using the skills she learned at the workshop, she was able to speak to her father and shortly thereafter, they reconciled. She was able to move back home with her parents and with their support go back to high school and graduate. |