Training Materials, Book
The Money Habitudes workbook is designed to be used with Money Habitudes cards and the Money Habitudes Training DVD. Its exercises help people discover how habits and attitudes about money support or sabotage their life, relationship, career and financial goals. The guide can be used in the context of a group training or can be used by individuals and couples working on their own. The workbook walks people through the steps to sort and interpret the Money Habitudes cards; provides space to record results and interpretations; includes tables relating Habitudes to typical financial and life…
Many school children and their families are faced with multiple health, education, and social service needs that no single agency is in a position to address alone. One intervention strategy that many schools are now beginning to use in these situations is a case management approach which emanates from the schools’ concern for children who are failing in school due to a variety of interacting school, home, and community influences. The purpose of this publication is to introduce school personnel concerned with early intervention with potential school dropouts to a promising school-based…
The California State PTA encourages fathers to be involved in their children's education and development. PTAs can promote father involvement at home and at school by educating parents about its importance, by encouraging fathers to be involved in PTA activities, and by sharing the ideas in this packet with the dads in their community to give them ideas on how to be involved. (Author abstract)
La PTA de California alienta a los padres a participar en la educación y el desarrollo de sus hijos. Las PTA pueden promover la participación de los padres en el hogar y en la escuela educando a los padres sobre su importancia, alentando a los padres a participar en las actividades de la PTA y compartiendo las ideas de este paquete con los papás de su comunidad para darles ideas sobre cómo participar. . (Resumen del autor)
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Training Materials This PowerPoint presentation is from the Fall Seminar Series 2005, "Connecting dads and children through literacy and early education." (Author abstract modified)
A growing body of evidence points to the important benefits of a strong father-child relationship. Among these benefits are higher levels of school performance and increases in healthy behaviors. Children who lack a positive relationship with a father or father-figure demonstrate higher levels of teen pregnancy, increased juvenile delinquency, and lower academic achievement. This link between father-involvement and child-wellbeing elevates the importance of educating and socializing boys to become competent fathers. Therefore, in February 2005, the Minnesota Fathers & Families Network (…
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The purpose of this booklet is to make available to parents information that they can use to help their child to succeed in school. The booklet includesinformation about things that they can do at home to contribute to their child's school success; activities that they can use to help their child acquire the skills to succeed in school; answers to often-asked questions about how to work with teachers and schools; and tips on how to help your child with test taking.
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This issue brief discusses State development and implementation of marriage education programs to strengthen families and improve outcomes for children. It describes the objectives of the programs and types of programs, and notes research results that indicate children raised in two-parent homes with low conflict levels have a lower risk of both academic and behavioral issues and exhibit greater stability in their own relationships as adults. Strategies States and localities can use to fund marriage education are explained, and lessons learned from State and local programs are shared. Lessons…
This book explores barriers facing disadvantaged young men and policies that can be implemented to improve the educational and employment opportunities available to disconnected young men, particularly African American and Hispanic young men. It specifically focuses on the following areas of policy: enhancing education, training, and employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth by focusing on individual policy components and on building these components into community systems; improving the incentives of less-skilled young workers to accept employment by raising minimum wages or…
