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Evidence-based Practice: Linking Research and Practice - Audio Recording

Gary L. Bowen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Elaine Anderson, University of Maryland; Jane Gilgun, University of Minnesota; Shirley M. H. Hanson, Emeritus, Oregon Health Sciences University; Leigh Leslie, University of Maryland; Terrance Olson, Brigham Young University; Stephen Small, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This session will define Evidence-based Practice (EBP), its history and development, and its current  application in family science and social work, including pros and cons. Panel members will discuss the application of EBP to areas of central concern to NCFR members: youth development, school success, family life education (marital and family enrichment), and training of family life and social work professionals.

Chair: Gary L. Bowen

Family Life Education. Working with Families Across the Life Span

Contemporary family life educators must operate in a wide range of settings and with increasingly varied populations and families. In the second edition of their successful Family Life Education, Powell and Cassidy expertly expose readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, practical foundation for future family life educators. The authors broad overview of the field features a blend of theory and practice, with full chapters on sexuality education, marriage education, and parent education-areas that have received evaluation and certification attention.

Families in a Global Context

Each chapter in Families in a Global Context describes customary types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. Important social, economic, political, and other trends are explored in detail, and major ethnic, religious, or other subcultures are noted emphasizing marriage and family patterns that differ from the more typical ones. The book is extensively referenced and includes tables to clearly present data.

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care

A complete guide for family members  facing the practical and emotional issues  that arise in seeking nursing home care and who are learning to be  "the family member" of someone in a nursing home or senior's housing.

Casey Life Skills

Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.

When Families Grieve

Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.

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Educational Strategies for Family Life Educators- Audio Recording

An Evaluation of an Online Educational Tool for Romantic Relationships, Adam West, Catherine Surra

The Effects of Marriage Education on Parenting Qualities, Alexandra Calligas, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Angela Bradford, Scott Ketring, Thomas Smith

Implementing Relationship Education With Young Adults: Insights from the Field, Spencer Olmstead, Kay Pasley, and the Project RELATE Team

Lessons Learned Teaching Human Development: A Case for Blended Learning, Nate Cottle, Rebecca Glover

Discussant: Maureen Mulroy

Presider: Marilyn Flick

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Special Update for Researchers and Practitioners- Audio Recording

Implementing a Large-Scale Evaluation of Marriage and Relationships Skills Education: Progress of the Building Strong Families Project

 

M. Robin Dion is a Senior Research Psychologist at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Currently she is principal investigator for the Building Strong Families project, a large-scale demonstration and rigorous nine-year evaluation of multiple programs to support healthy couple relationships among unwed parents with young children.

Alan Hershey is a Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, and serves as its coordinator of studies relating to family formation and welfare. He is currently the director of Mathematica's Building Strong Families project for the Administration for Children and Families.

The Building Strong Families (BSF) project is the nation's largest and most rigorous evaluation of interventions to improve relationships among low-income unmarried couples with children. The project was motivated by earlier research findings that at the time of their child's birth, most unmarried couples report having loving relationships and aspirations to marry, but that many soon break up. The BSF intervention includes guided group sessions addressing common couple issues, as well as one-on-one support and referrals to other needed services. More than 5,000 unmarried couples have voluntarily enrolled in the BSF study at sites in seven states and been randomly assigned to a program or control group. The conference presentation will describe the intervention, including the relationship skills curricula on which it is based, as well as the progress of the evaluation, addressing such questions as who participates, the extent of their involvement in program services, and couples' responses to the intervention. It will also explain how BSF was implemented, including how host sites were found and the processes used to identify and recruit couples. The evaluation will assess the impact of the intervention on relationship quality and status, family well-being, and children's social, emotional and cognitive development; a preview will be given of analysis plans as the evaluation proceeds with its follow-up of families 15 months and 36 months after they enter the evaluation sample.

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International Programs in Family Life Education - Audio Recording

Socio-Educative Approaches for Family Life Education in Brazil, Maria Lucia Afonso, Charles B. Hennon, Tina Carico, Lesley Ormiston, Gary W. Peterson

An Intergenerational Program in Taiwan—Go Go Village Sports Competition, Ju-Ping Lin Changes in the Greek Family: An Overview of Family Life Education Efforts and Services, Panayiota Courelli, Basilia Softas-Nall, Anna Pagoropoulou

Nigerian Women Amidst Cultural and Career Dictations; Need for Family Life Education, Awosika Bridiget Itunu, Cecilia Olarewaju The ELITE FLE Program in Taiwan, Theresa Nei-yuh Huang Facilitator/Moderator/Presider: Carol A. Darling

Parenting Piece by Piece

Parenting Piece by Piece is a curriculum guide for a series of eight parenting education sessions and three optional sessions. It was originally designed for use with parents who have been mandated to attend parenting training due to their identification as abusive and/or neglectful parents. The current edition also includes guidelines for adapting the program for use with incarcerated parents or with the caregivers of children whose parents have lost custody. This site provides background information, samples, and ordering information.