Event Summary
Since 2002 the Administration has provided substantial funding for healthy marriage and relationship programs, research and demonstrations. The Deficit Reduction Act of 2006 provided $150 million a year for five years to fund healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood programs. This series of three policy seminars aims to share some of the lessons learned thus far. It is being held in cooperation with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Child Trends, Center for Law and Social Policy and the National Conference of State Legislatures and with financial support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Event Information
When
Friday, July 18, 2008
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Where
Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC
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Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood programs that receive grants from the Administration for Children and Families are required to consult with domestic violence experts in developing their programs and activities. At this seminar on July 18th the first panel of speakers reviewed the reasons for this requirement, described how it is being implemented across a diverse sample of programs, and provided an effective model for creating bridges between domestic violence and healthy marriage and relationship programs. The second panel addressed emerging curricula and approaches to helping individual women and men avoid abusive relationships.
Panelists included national domestic violence experts, program administrators, a relationship educator, and a program participant. Excerpts from Something My Father Would Do, a DVD of interviews with three men about their experience of growing up with abusive fathers will also be shown.
Panelists took questions from the audience.
Participants
8:30 AM -- Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM -- Welcome and Introduction
Mary Myrick
Project Director, National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
Patrick Patterson
Program Manager, National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
Seminar Moderator
Oliver Williams
Director, Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Panel One: Building Bridges Between Healthy Marriage and Relationship Programs and Domestic Violence
Anne Menard
Executive Director, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Cassandra Codes-Johnson
Director, Family Services, Center for Urban Families, Baltimore
Lisa Nitsch
Gateway Project Program Director, House of Ruth Maryland
Panel Two: Emerging Issues
Marline Pearson
Relationships Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, WI
Jill Smith
Program Participant, Within My Reach, Madison, WI
Juan Carlos Arean
Senior Program Director, Childrens Programs, Family Violence Prevention Fund