Curricula Used in State and Federal Grants

Active Relationship Center (ARC) has worked in Healthy Marriage Initiative programs since 1997.  Active Relationships curricula has been used in a multitude of state and federal grants and is currently involved in a variety of projects. ARC’s history includes involvement in the birth of both the Dallas and the Rio Grande Valley initiatives, and ARC healthy marriage curriculums are used worldwide for healthy marriage programming (U.S., Europe and Asia).

There are many efficient and best practices of the trade in the area of healthy marriage education. ARC is a healthy marriage grantee and also has been in the business of marriage education for over 10 years. Active Relationships Center (ARC) is pleased to offer a plan for help to your community organization to build and administer healthy marriage education.

Call Active Relationships Center to find out how to plan for ARC services in your grant application. Ramp-up your winning healthy marriage grant! Make your project go smoothly!

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Technical Assistance by ARC for Healthy Marriage Education in Your Community

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ACF Curricula Example

DHHS and ACF Curricula

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Beyond technical assistance:
Active Relationships Center

Fostering the Hispanic Active Relationships Project (HARP)-a healthy marriage grantee community, ARC has services that can make your job building a healthy marriage community easier. We’ve already been there! You don’t have to reinvent the wheel!

SOME of the things the ARC Team can do:

• Create Public Awareness Materials and Campaigns to inspire participants to come to marriage education classes.
  
  
• Screen for effective presenters
  
  
• Teach organizational how to’s to quickly build a network of providers
  
  
• Train presenters in programs for marriage education
  
  
• Design events that the public loves to attend!
  
  
• Teach DO’s and Do NOT’s (ethics) to make classes more fun and safe
  
  
• Provide ideas and materials in both Spanish and English!
  
  
• Why choose Active Relationships programs for your Healthy Marriage Initiative?
  

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Technical Assistance by ARC for Healthy Marriage Education in Your Community

Active Relationships Center is pleased to offer a plan for help to your community organization to build and administer healthy marriage education. There are many efficient and best practices of the trade. ARC is a healthy marriage grantee and also has been in the business of marriage education for 10 years.

We have a team of experienced professionals that can assist you during the process of constructing your healthy marriage education program, producing a public awareness campaign, and assisting with program needs. First - determine if our Active Marriage program fits your needs.

Steps:

(To view the ACF criteria that the new ARC 8-hour program meets, click here for the “ACF Curriculum Guide Assessment”.)

(1) To see choices for training (and costs to train) your leaders to teach marriage education, click here for “Certification Trainings”.

(2) To ask about partnering with ARC for Technical Assistance or for a letter of support (MOU): Call ARC (877-724-7789) and email Director: Kelly Simpson at contact(at)ActiveRelationships.com.

Note: Cost for participant materials for the new 8-hour best practices program (in Spanish or English) -$21/book or $19 for orders of 50 or more. Couples can share a book.

Inclusion in Grants:

Another recommendation is the following for your grant: Include in your grant that you would like to seek assistance from ARC in building your project. (ARC has a strong track record for building HMI communities.)

Here is an example:

*Part 1:

Budget approximately $10,000 for direct start-up assistance (months 1-5) and $1,000 per month for the remaining months of the grant) for 1:1 technical assistance from ARC to help you accomplish the following:

- Create Public Awareness Materials and Campaigns to inspire participants to come to marriage education classes. (recruiting participants for classes)

- Screen for effective presenters and keep them motivated

- Learn organizational how to’s (utilize all our forms, fliers, etc.!) and how to efficiently build a network of providers

- Design events that the public loves to attend!

-Teach DO’s and Do NOT’s (ethics) to make classes more fun and safe

*Part 2:

Year One expense for Technical Assistance -$16,000 . Build in site visits to your site for hands on work. Fee, transportation and lodging $2,000/visit.

Year Two - forward -- $12,000 + $2,000/site visit as needed throughout.

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DHHS and ACF Curricula

Active Relationships Center has been in partnership with a number of community agencies, including housing projects, Head Start and community marriage projects to name a few, to assist in promoting healthy marriages through training leaders in these communities to teach Active Relationships curricula and providing seminars directly to people using Active Relationships curricula.

The Active Marriage and Best Practices program includes the six “required” key content areas of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF):

- Commitment to healthy marriage (for current or future relationship)
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Beliefs about marriage or family
- Benefits of marriage
- Qualities of healthy relationships and healthy marriages

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Head Start

HEAD START RFP’s ask that Head Start organizations associate with organizations with demonstrated healthy marriage work.

ARC has worked in the Healthy Marriage Initiative since 1997. ARC’s history includes involvement in the birth of both the Dallas and the Rio Grande Valley initiatives and ARC healthy marriage curriculums are used worldwide for healthy marriage programming (U.S., Europe and Asia).

ACF Curricula