Problem/need
30% of girls become pregnant by age 20.
(51% of Hispanic girls)
- Poverty
- Diminished life prospects for children
- Unstable/unlikely future marriages
- Diminishing for women
- HS drop-out
- Second births
- Father absence
Teens lack good healthy relationship role models.
Verbal/physical abuse
- Dating
- In non-married households
- School violence
Cohabitation is seen as acceptable. Marriage rate declining
Media/popular culture
Adolescent sexual activity
- STD/health
- Pregnancy
See Dibble Institute Fact Sheet for more details and websites. |
Demographics
/Trends
Majority of teens believe marriage is important.
Majority of teens believe that they will marry in the future
60% of 15-17 year old girls and 73% of 18-19 girls approve of unwed childbearing.
Marriage and birth patterns among teens have changed.
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For HMI Grants find in your service area:
# HS teens ages 15-18
Population trends
%/# of teens in single parent homes
#/% of pregnant teens
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Objectives
Increase # of youth who know healthy relationship skills.
Increase healthy marriages and strong families.
Decrease incidence of dating violence.
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Approach
PREVENTION!
Youth community saturation model
- implementation of youth relationship skills education through FACS classes, in youth groups, clubs, camps and beyond school programs.
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Activities
Based on your needs, the Dibble Institute would be pleased to partner with you to:
Recruit State, district or school FACS educator to work with HMC on youth programs. (1Q)
Decide which classes are best for presenting teen relationship skills programs. (1Q)
Decide on strategic implementation (timing, programs, etc). (2Q)
Look for other opportunities to offer youth relationship ed in churches, clubs, agencies, etc. (2Q)
Decide on the best research based, evaluated, age appropriate curriculum(a) to offer based on needs of students and preference of instructors. (2Q)
(See Dibble Institute Program Synopsis for more information)
Recruit instructors through mini-grant process. (3Q)
Order materials. (3Q)
Schedule and conduct teacher trainings (4Q) (hopefully late summer)
Conduct Programs (5-6Q)
Student and instructor post program evaluation (7Q)
Repeat in following years perhaps adding different programs in different settings. |
Timeline
(Key to activity column)
1Q = Oct-Dec 2006
2Q = Jan-Ma 2007
3Q = Ap-Je 2007
4Q = Jy-Se 2007
5Q = Oct-Dec 2007
6Q = Jan-Ma 2008
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Outcomes
Each instructor will reach at least XX students per semester and XX x 2 (semesters) students per year.
There are XX FACS or other teachers in our who can/will participate in our HMC region.
There are XX youth ministers who will participate in the training. Each will reach XX students per year.
There are XX youth workers who will participate in the training. Each will reach XX students per year.
There are XX others who will participate in the training. Each will reach XX students per year.
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Rationale
The Connections, Love U2® and Art of Loving well programs are all based on valid and reliable research.
In addition, each has been evaluated and found to make statistically significant differences in various behavior of teens.
Family and Consumer Science teachers are trained in family life education.
Teens in high schools are easy to reach through on-site educators.
Teens are fascinated with their romantic lives and are drawn to programs on this topic.
See Dibble Institute Research Synopsis and website for research briefs
See The Dibble Institute website for program philosophies and goals and rationales. |
Barriers
Students in schools are focused on achieving academic standards and are not able to take elective classes.
Schools are eliminating FACS classes due to budget constraints.
OVERCOME:
In communities that make healthy marriages a priority, they can make youth relationship skills education a priority in their schools.
Develop out-of-school delivery methods to supplement schools (ie churches, clubs, camps, retreats, health care settings, teen centers, YMCA, YWCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, foster care, after school programs, juvenile justice, vocational clubs ) |
Domestic violence
The Developer of Connections, Love U 2 and The Art of Loving Well are either themselves experts in the field of domestic violence, or they consulted experts in the field as they developed the programs.
Each program deals with issues surrounding emotional and physical abuse as well as how to build healthy relationships.
See Treatment of Dating Abuse worksheet |
Voluntary
All FACS classes are electives, therefore voluntary for teens.
Participation through churches, clubs, camps and agencies would be voluntary as well. |
Org Profile/
Partners/Key Staff
The Dibble Institute, a 501(c) (3) non-profit, has been serving youth by developing and distributing best practices relationship and marriage skills curricula since 1996.
Joyce Huff
Outreach Director
joyce@dibbleinstitute.org
Dibble Institute
PO Box 7881
Berkeley, CA 94707
1-800-695-7975
1-972-226-2824
EIN # 680435573
Please contact The Dibble Institute if further organization or staff information is required.
We are also happy to supply letters of support. Please contact, Joyce Huff.
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Budget
Check Dibble Institute Website for curricula, pamphlets and training prices.
The Connections programs and the Love U2® Programs cost approximately $320 per instructor per unit to implement. Student materials (copying or workbooks) are an additional cost.
In addition, pamphlets and videos for teens on marriage are available at the Dibble Institute Website
Training is available. Please call for details.
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Budget Justification
Low cost per participant to implement.
If using FACS teachers there are no salary costs if delivered in schools.
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Evaluation-milestones/
outcomes/staff
Number of instructors trained.
Participating instructors will record and relay to the HMC numbers of participating students.
Post-curricula student evaluations are available for the Connections, Love U2® and Art of Loving Well programs.
More rigorous evaluation instruments are available through universities who are researching our programs. Call for details. |
