Marital and Family Relations

♦ Family, the Lifecourse, and the Great Recession

    http://www.stanford.edu/group/recessiontrends/cgi-bin/web/sites/all/themes/barron /pdf/Family_fact_sheet.pdf

 

 

♦ Providing Healthy Marriage Education to Clients with Lower Literacy Skills

 Providing Healthy Marriage Education to Clients with Lower Literacy Skills

 

 

 

 

^{_{♦ The Future of Children}}

The Princeton-Brookings Future of Children just released a new journal about research on Fragile Families. It is free to download at:

http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/journals/journal_details/index.xml?journalid=73   

 

 

 

 

♦ Building Strong Families

Note: Print the two pages of each master back to back on cover stock, then cut and fold into four wallet-size cards.  

 

 

 

♦  What Works in Marriage and Relationship Education?

A Review of Lessons Learned with a Focus on Low-Income Couples

 

 

 

♦ National Extension Relationship & Marriage Education Network (NERMEN) 
            Many links to research-based resources and

            materials on relationship building

 

 

 

 

♦ National Cooperative Extension Service
          Search engines through the national Cooperative Extension Service

                 http://search.extension.org/

                 http://www.cyfernet.org 

 

 

 

 

♦ Low cost curricula on family relations (draft)
          Prepared by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human

            Services, Administration for Children and Families

 

 

♦ WonderWise Parent
          K-State Research and Extension site on parenting and parent-child

            relationships

 

 

 

♦ SageAdvice
          K-State Research and Extension site on adult development and aging

 

 

 

 

♦ YouthBoost
          K-State Research and Extension site on youth development

 

 

 

♦ Father Times Newsletter

A series of newsletters have been published by North Dakota State Extension that focus on fatherhood and father-child relations.

 

 

♦ Gearing Up for Kindergarten

This school-readiness program is to teach to parents who will be having a child preparing for kindergarten within 1 - 2 years.

 

This resource provides tips and resources for parents, early education and child care providers, and pediatricians to promote social-emotional health among young children.

 

♦ Identifying Mental Health and Substance Use Problems of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Child-Serving Organizations (SAMHSA)

This guide was created to promote the early identification of children and adolescents with mental health and substance use problems as well as to provide guidance, tools, and resources for early identification—including a compendium of the most developmentally, culturally, and environmentally appropriate screening instruments. It is written for personnel working in child-serving organizations and the families of the children (birth–12 years) and adolescents (13–22 years) being served. Supplement 1 in this document focuses on issues specific to child welfare.