Healthy Marriage & Family Formation
Training Project
This federally-funded training project enhances the capacity of child welfare professionals and community service providers’ capacity to address healthy marriage and family formation issues as a way of improving safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children and families in Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas. The project is also working to identify and promote systemic responses to barriers that might prevent implementation of the project principles.
The purpose of the federal initiative is to support healthy marriages for those who choose marriage for themselves. The primary way this is accomplished is by providing individuals and couples with the skills and knowledge they need to form and sustain a healthy marriage. The project recognizes that child well-being is improved when children are raised in a stable and healthy family environment.
- How to Obtain Training Related to the Marriage Project
- Literature Review
- Advisory Committee Members
- Domestic Violence Protocol
- Training for Healthy Marriage and Family Formation
How to Obtain Training Related to the Marriage Project:
The trainings were developed under the auspices of the Healthy Marriage and Family Formation Training Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau and all materials developed with public funds are in the public domain. We are happy to share this curriculum with anyone who requests it.
The Butler Institute for Families can also:
- Deliver the training to supervisory staff in your state.
- Provide the curriculum and deliver a train-the-trainer to your staff so that your staff can train these modules on an on-going basis.
- Adapt the training for use in your state and tailor the content with activities and materials of particular relevance for your staff.
- Send you the files for adaptation by your staff in your state.
- Develop entirely new curriculum for your state.
If you interested in obtaining these training, learning more about our capacities, or our fees, please contact Linda Metsger at: lmetsger@du.edu or call (303) 871-2910.
Literature Review
The literature review assessed documents related to key areas deemed relevant to the project including teen parents, fatherhood; family structure; marriage education and enrichment; domestic violence, and issues relevant to low-income populations. Each topic area is summarized with major points that emanate from the literature. Individual articles are further categorized and summarized for a brief and informative synopsis.
Download the Literature_Review.pdf
To download and view these files, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. If you do not have Acrobat reader, you can download a free copy of this sofware.
Advisory Committee Members
Andy Aldrich, State of Wyoming Department of Family Services
Jane Berdie, Independent Consultant
Susan Blumberg, Administration for Children and Families
Kathy Desserly, National Child Welfare Association
Kathleen Kelley-Elias, Faith Initiatives of Wyoming, High Country Consulting, LLC
Howard Markman, Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver
Theodora Ooms, CLASP
Debora Ortega, Graduate School of Social Work,University of Denver
Lisa Pettitt, Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
Cathryn Potter, Butler Institute for Families, University of Denver
Steven Preister, National Center for Organizational Improvement
Akil K. Rahim, Akil K. Rahim & Associates
Cheryl Schnell, El Paso County Department of Human Services
Jill Stubbs, State of Wyoming Department of Family Services
J. Neil Tift, National Practitioner's Network for Fathers and Families
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