African American Family Life Education Program© This is a teaching, research, and service project. The first phase was a collaborative partnership between the School of Social Work, Wishard Health Services, the M.L. King Center, and Robinson Community AME Church. The primary goal was to develop two empirically based practice models in marriage enrichment and parenting education for African American family leaders. Secondarily, the project aimed to build professional capacity in Indiana to provide ethnic and gender sensitive family life education. As a result of the first phase, the marriage enrichment instructor’s manual will be completed by July 2002 and a 2-day institute to train trainers in the model will be taught at the national Smart Marriages conference in Washington, DC. The grant funded project provided five fellowships for African American students who have earned both the MSW and the Certificate in Family Life Education. Currently, policy consultation is being provided at the federal, state, and local levels to increase the number of two-parent headed families and the number of married-parent headed families.
Principal Investigator: Lorraine Blackman
Project Dates: 1997 - 2000
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