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STEPFAMILY EDUCATION Smart Steps: Embrace the Journey. Welcome. 2008 Facilitator Training Layton, Utah November 17 th and18 th. Welcome to the Training for:.

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  1. STEPFAMILY EDUCATION Smart Steps:Embrace the Journey Welcome 2008 Facilitator Training Layton, Utah November 17th and18th

  2. Welcome to the Training for: • Funding for this project was provided , in part, through the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Grants No. 90FE0129 and 90YD0227. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.

  3. Teaching Healthy Marriage Skills to Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Couples in Stepfamilies

  4. Similarities • Smart Steps • Expectations about couples served • Evaluations • Media resources • Clips • Website: http://extension.usu.edu/stepfamily • Advertisement Templates • Differences • Participants (FAQ #1) • Re-enrollment (FAQ #13) • Incentives (FAQ #16)

  5. Demonstrate effective strategies to teach healthy marriage skills to low-income, ethnically diverse couples in stepfamilies. • Document the effectiveness of a research-based Remarriage/Stepfamily curriculum with samples of Hispanic and Caucasian low-income couples. • Document the long-term effects of programmatic participation on the level of knowledge, skills, and relationship quality. Project Objectives

  6. Why are we doing this?

  7. Cumulative Effects Source: Ganong & Coleman, 2004, p. 149-150

  8. Why are we Partnering with you?

  9. “…have established history and rapport with the target population.” • “…staff with a strong awareness of the needs of such families.” • “…have extensive experience serving families in their communities.” • “…participants will see the same staff they are used to seeing, and in the case of Hispanic participants they will read and hear the curriculum in Spanish.” Why have we partnered with you?

  10. How’s it going so far?

  11. 55 classes have been offered • 1042 adult participants • 824 adults have attended 5 or more classes • 361 couples • 848 youth participant • 521 youth have attended 5 or more classes • average age 9.9 Stepfamily Education Initiative Accomplishments to Date

  12. Of those 1042 adults who have participated: • 373 attended classes in Spanish • 669 attended classes in English Adult Participant Characteristicsto date

  13. Of those 848 youth who have participated: • 235 attended classes in Spanish • 613 attended classes in English Youth Participant Characteristicsto date

  14. Mean scores of Agreement on Key Relational Issues

  15. Mean scores of Commitment

  16. Mean scores of Relationship Instability

  17. Favorite Quotes

  18. “We’ve learned a lot. I can’t even remember it all but the money part really helped us because we didn’t know what we were going to do and you know people can fight about money, holy cow they can fight about money.”

  19. “I’ve noticed that I was pushing my two stepchildren a little, my two stepboys, and I’ve finally realized that just going to the doctor isn’t enough time with them. And I think that we’re actually going to set a night aside as just a family night and play some games, no TV.”

  20. “We actually went and bought a kitchen table so we can sit as a family to eat.”

  21. “I’ve told my sister-in-law about it [the class], I told my stepdad about it, I told my sister about it, I’ve told the kids’ grandma about it because it’s been wonderful! I’ve taken home my papers and I go through it constantly! I’m just like, oh, I love this stuff!”

  22. “It’s amazing that people don’t want to come though, even though you pay them. It’s crazy, but I think it is definitely a successful program that you guys are doing.”

  23. “I think the kids are less confused. They know what we expect so it’s a lot easier. They’ve totally changed. So it’s been good.”

  24. “My parents got in no more fights.” “Play more, fight less.” Child Participants

  25. Oh yes. Because it is helpful. One believes, how can I say it? One believes that we have to fight the battle to move forward with our children without help, but there is help. There are courses, there are ways other people can help. Things that we don’t know. We could never have thought that a program can be so helpful to us. Would you recommend this course to others?

  26. Making a difference in the lives of a lot of people Teaching the government what does and doesn’t work Establishing best practices Thanks to your efforts, we are:

  27. The objective of Next two days:

  28. Embrace the Journey

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