Eharmony Marriage webinar/Grant Calls/ Marriage Ed for police/fire/emts - 3/15/07

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- NEW EHARMONY ON-LINE MARRIAGE PROGRAM
- ABSTINENCE GRANTS CONFERENCE CALL
- MARRIAGE EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL

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- NEW EHARMONY ON-LINE MARRIAGE PROGRAM
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Program. In this FREE Webinar learn how this clinically-validated tool
enables you to reach healthy, pre-marital, and troubled couples more
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11am Pacific/2pm Eastern, March 22, March 28
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workshop in Denver:

> 318 - Fri, June 29
> Eharmony Marriage
> Les Parrott, PhD, Galen Buckwalter, PhD
> Use this private, convenient, engaging, on-line marriage-strengthening program
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- ABSTINENCE GRANTS CONFERENCE CALL

> The Administration for Children and Families has announced the Community-Based
> Abstinence Education Program (CBAE) with grants of up to $600,000 per year.
>  
> Applicants must address the following in grant applications:
> Cultural Sensitivity
> Healthy Marriage
> Medical Accuracy 
> Sustainability
> Evaluation
>  
> If you are interested in considering applying for this grant, please email me
> and include the word:  "Abstinence" in the subject line of your email.  We
> will be holding a conference call very soon with potential applicants.
>  
> You must have an annual budget at least equal to the size of the grant.   If
> you plan to apply for a grant for $300,000, your annual budget must be at
> least that size.  If you are a small group, you must find an applicant to
> partner with an appropriate budget.
>  
> These grants must be completed by April 23.
>  
> Please respond to this immediately if you are interested.
> Chris Gersten  email: famli-list "at" famli.us
> famli-list at famli.us

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- MARRIAGE EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL

> Hy Diane:
> Wondering who knows about marriage work being done specifically for sheriffs,
> police, FBI, state patrol, etc.
> We are starting a program for the locals in Spokane and want thoughts from
> others if they have experience.
> We will roll out fire and paramedics after this gets going.
> Jack Cosby 
> Executive Director
> Healthy Families Inland Northwest
> Marriage Friendly Communities
> www.marriagefriendlycommunities.org


Pat Cullen of Chesterfield County Virginia adapted programs for police,
fire, and paramedics (EMTs) as part of her service to her county and
presented on this work at early Smart Marriages Conferences. In fact we were
so excited about her work at the county level that she presented the opening
keynote "Leading the Nation" in 1998. She was trained early (1995!) in the
PREP program and went on to adapt and implement the program through a county
mental health agency, including special programs designed just for the the
public service audience you're targeting. You might want to order the
recordings of her workshop at 800-241-7785:

> 752-311  
> For Better or For Worse
> Pat Cullen, MSN & Robin Jones, MS
> This mental health center successfully adapted PREP as a county-sponsored
> marriage ed program without additional funding, or even an ad budget. How-to
> manual details nuts & bolts of implementation in any community setting.

She found it was easier to market to the public when she changed the name
from "Prep" to "For Better or For Worse" and she adapted a one-night-a-week
for 7 weeks format. Subsidized by the county so couples paid on a sliding
scale.  Always full.  Said she wished she'd had more marketing money -
mainly markets through 300 churches in the county.  For the
police/paramedic/fire couples, had to adapt to more user-friendly hrs and
work with the heads of police, fire, and EMTs to arrange for personnel to
use annual leave to attend classes when they were on duty.  She said the
dept heads were very enthusiastic about the classes and saw the need.  She
also includes info and research on how the "stages of these public safety
careers" affect marriages and spouses.  The "how to manual" which would help
implement and market any marriage ed program at a community level, can be
ordered through the Prep offices: http://www.prepinc.com  - diane


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