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The Blueprint: A Guide to Family Stability & Economic Success
The Blueprint curriculum is an extension of the Center for Urban Families’ Division of Program Planning and Evaluation. The curriculum provides an opportunity for programs to expose young, low-income and never-married couples to healthy relationships education, information and skill development that is rarely accessible to them. The curriculum focuses on couples who have a mutual interest in exploring the possibility of formalizing their commitment to one another through marriage.
CFUF created the Blueprint curriculum based on our experience working in low-income African-American communities. The curriculum material reflects that experience. However, the core content of the curriculum is relevant and can be utilized with most couples. Organizations can supplement the activities or examples used in the curriculum with material that connects more effectively with their target populations.
In tandem with the curriculum, CFUF developed a guidebook for the organization implementing a healthy relationship and marriage program. The purpose of the Blueprint guidebook is to provide program planning and implementation strategies, as well as resources that organizations can use as a guide in creating or enhancing their healthy relationships and marriage program(s). The guidebook also shares lessons learned from this relatively new component in the field of family support services. Finally, the guidebook serves as a companion to the Blueprint curriculum’s Facilitator Workbook to assist organizations in creating a program that best meets the needs to the community they plan to serve.
The Blueprint Training Institute: SMART Marriages 2010
Become certified to teach a healthy relationship/marriage program that will provide resources to assist low-income couples in forming and maintaining healthy relationships and marriages, with the goal to provide proven successful education to help increase two-parent homes for the economic, educational, and social development of this nation’s families and children. Through this training, facilitators will be able to implement a 12-week curriculum-based program that will connect urban families with healthy relationship and marriage skills, infusing principles of financial literacy, and family planning designed to benefit children.
In addition to teaching curriculum concepts, trainees will be introduced to the Blueprint guidebook, which is intended to provide guidance on program design, implementation, and sustainability. In addition to presenting programmatic build-out, the guidebook will also offer recruitment, retention, marketing concepts, domestic violence protocol education, and resources, which are all core to program sustainability. The intention of the guidebook is to compliment the success of Blueprint curriculums’ implementation and promote overall program sustainability.
TO REGISTER FOR THE TRAINING INSTITUTE:
http://www.smartmarriages.com/blueprint.html