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  CDC's Strategic Approach to Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
This document describes a five-year vision for CDC's work on intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention. The overall strategy in preventing IPV is to promote respectful, nonviolent relationships through individual-, relationship-, community-, and societal-level change.
(Ed Note: By focusing on primary prevention and a rigorous scientific approach, we hope the CDC includes relationship education as a proven tool to prevent IPV and build respectful, non-violent relationships with young people.)
Editor's Note: What follows are four recent articles on family formation, marriage, poverty, and marriage education. When read together, we see a picture of young people who aspire to be in a healthy marriage, yet who often have children prior to making that commitment. And, then liberal commentator Nicholas Kristof makes the connection between single parent families, poverty and the potential of marriage to make a difference.
Finally, the Huff post blog on the value of youth marriage education elicited many varied responses. Most people who responded were not seeing the connection between the aspirations of young people for strong healthy marriages, poor outcomes for children raised by single parents, and the evidence that the skills marriage education teaches increases confidence in young people that they can get and stay married.
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 Gen-Y is late to the wedding, but wants marriage
Gen-Y is is rewriting modern romance as the path to marriage gets longer but more certain: Young people want more certainty before the wedding.
...This is the first generation to come of age with social media, instant - even constant - Internet and phone connection, and relaxed pressures to marry early. It is responsible for terms like "hooking up" (nonrelationships known to previous generations as one-night stands) and "friends with benefits" (a sexual relationship without emotional involvement).
While Millennial courtship rituals are distinctly different from those of previous generations, say those who study the scene, survey after survey indicates that Millennials do want to be married, they do want the house in the suburbs and the kids.
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The White Underclass
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 8, 2012 - New York Times
Persistent poverty is America's great moral challenge, but it's far more than that.
....Then there's the eclipse of traditional family patterns. Among white American women with only a high school education, 44 percent of births are out of wedlock, up from 6 percent in 1970, according to Murray.
Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree: Solid marriages have a huge beneficial impact on the lives of the poor (more so than in the lives of the middle class, who have more cushion when things go wrong).
One study of low-income delinquent young men in Boston found that one of the factors that had the greatest impact in turning them away from crime was marrying women they cared about. As Steven Pinker notes in his recent book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature": "The idea that young men are civilized by women and marriage may seem as corny as Kansas in August, but it has become a commonplace of modern criminology."
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Can you teach kids how to be married?
Dibble's response: "Teaching teens to develop healthy romantic relationships has benefits for them both now and, hopefully, in the future. Research is clear that when teens get smart about their love lives (learning communications, conflict resolution, how to pace their relationship, how relationships grow and develop over time, and more) peer to peer violence is reduced, onset of sexual activity is delayed, child abuse among parenting teens is reduced, and other risky youth behaviors are impacted.
Relationship skills education can help young adults now!! And, schools are the most efficient and reliable way to get this info to teens. These skills are required in the health class frameworks. The new sex ed standards includes healthy relationships. The poor decisions young people make about their love lives, can derail their plans for the future. It makes sense to reach as many young people as we can with research (not religious) based information and skills.
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 Social Marketing | Start Strong Tools for Teens
Youth today communicate in very different ways than their parents and even their older siblings. Media and technology shape this generation's perceptions and understanding of social norms more than any other previous generation. Online and mobile communication is an integral part of their lives, and a focal point of their social engagement. These technologies create both risks and opportunities.
Jaquil and Jalisa are two youth leaders for Start Strong Boston who teach middle schoolers to analyze the lyrics in pop songs and think about relationship health. Listen to the podcast.
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 Extension Educator's Family Strengthening Map
How is your state's Cooperative Extension system involved in relationship and marriage education programming? Click on the green states, on the map, to learn more about these various efforts.
Click here to locate an Extension professional providing leadership in relationship and marriage education or general family life education in your state.
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Teen Dating Violence - Analysis of state Laws
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that one in 11 adolescents say they have been the victim of physical dating violence; a separate survey indicated that one in four teens self-report physical, verbal, emotional or sexual abuse every year. Policymakers can play a role in preventing teen dating violence.
At least 17 states have laws that urge or require school boards to develop curriculum on teen dating violence. Many states have also adopted teen dating violence awareness weeks or months, in an effort to draw the public's attention to a national campaign that promotes prevention, safe dating practices and offers information and resources. Check out the map here.
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 Share Your Dibble Story!
If you love our work then tell the world! You have an exciting opportunity to help THE DIBBLE INSTITUTE make even more of a difference in our community.
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All reviews will be visible to potential donors and volunteers. It's easy and only takes 3 minutes! Click here: With your help, we can gain greater visibility in the community and help more young people get smart about their love lives.
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Funding Streams for Relationship Education
 Grants for Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes
The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) will soon be accepting applications for the Transitional Living Program (TLP) and for Maternity Group Homes (MGH). TLPs provide an alternative to involving RHY in the law enforcement, child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. Each TLP must provide a safe and appropriate shelter for up to 21 months of services with adult supervision, life and interpersonal skill building, career counseling and job skills, counseling, and medical care as appropriate. MGHs provide the same services as a TLP in addition to providing parenting instructions and child care. Other services that are offered include, but are not limited to, transportation, family planning, abstinence education and pregnancy prevention services.
Available: May 11, 2012 Deadline: July 10, 2012
Get more info and apply here
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 Longitudinal Data on Teen Dating Violence: Postdoctoral Fellowship
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for research related to teen dating violence (a.k.a. adolescent relationship abuse). In particular, NIJ is seeking proposals that explore predictors and consequences of teen dating violence using longitudinal data, through the support of postdoctoral fellows, to analyze existing data.
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 YouthBuild Grants - SGA-DFA-PY-11-06
The Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $75 million in grant funds authorized by the YouthBuild provisions of the Workforce Investment Act [29 USC 2918a]. YouthBuild grants will be awarded through a competitive process. Under this solicitation, DOL will award grants to organizations to oversee the provision of education, occupational skills training, and employment services to disadvantaged youth in their communities while performing meaningful work and service to their communities.
Based on FY 2012 funding, DOL hopes to serve approximately 5,210 participants during the grant period of performance, with projects operating in approximately 75 communities across the country.
Issue Date: March 7, 2012 Closing Date: May 8, 2012
Full Announcement (pdf format)
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WEBINAR - Grants to Address Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
March 15, 2012 2PM EST- 3PM EST
President Obama's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013 targets approximately $13 million that would provide competitive funds for state and local child welfare agencies with strong and innovative plans to reduce pregnancy for youth in foster care. This would include funding the most effective approaches to pregnancy prevention in the foster care population, adapting evidence-based programs to fit the needs of this population, building the evidence base using both abstinence and more comprehensive approaches, and evaluating approaches that are unique to the foster care population such as working with court systems and training foster parents and caseworkers. The use of these funds for teen pregnancy prevention among youth in foster care would help address a critical gap in services for this population.
There will be opportunities to ask questions during and after the webinar. Please click here to register.
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Serving Young Adult Ex-Offenders through Training and Service-Learning, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced the availability of approximately $30 million in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Investment Act for Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Training and Service-Learning grants. Grants can support programs that serve young adult offenders (ages 18 through 21) who have been involved in the juvenile justice system from the age of 14 or above and have never been convicted as an adult under federal or state law. Training provided by programs funded through these grants is expected to lead to credentials recognized by in-demand industries in the grantee's geographic area to be served. Applications are due by 4:00 p.m. ET, April 17, 2012. To download the solicitation, click here.
(Ed Note: This grant encourages teaching the "soft skills" of communications, team work, problem solving. It also allows for referrals to parenting classes. Relationship educators may want to contact their local workforce development or juvenile justice organizations to see how their expertise can strengthen the grant proposal.)
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Save the date -
The Dibble Institute Calendar March 29-31, 2012
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence San Francisco, CA
Exhibitor: Kay Reed
April 11-12, 2012 Texas Partners in Protection Conference
Round Rock, TX Workshop: Relationship Education: The Missing Link Presenter: Janet Pozmantier
April 11-14, 2012
Jackson, WY
Workshop: What's Your Money Habitude?
Workshop: Things to Know Before You Say Go
Presenter: Joyce Huff
April 19-21,2012
ACTE Region IV Conference
Albuquerque, NM Presenter: Janet Pozmantier Workshop: What is Your Money Habitude?
May 16-17, 2012 Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC Workshop: It's So Much More Than SEX! Presenter: Dixie Zittlow
July 20 - 24, 2012 National Association for Marriage and Relationship Education
Baltimore, MD One Day Pre-conference Training: Prepare, Enrich, Inspire Curriculum
Trainer: Jessica Pool, author Presenter: Jessica Pool Workshop: Prepare, Enrich, Inspire for Teens
Presenter: Dixie Zittlow Workshop: The Future's Family is Today's Teens
Presenter: Irene Varley Workshop: Forming Realistic Expectations: Do I Want My Parents' Relationship?
Presenter: Irene Varley Workshop: Things to Know Before You Say Go!
Please let us know if you are having an open to the public event featuring Dibble curricula. We would be happy to help you publicize it.
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