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Who can benefit from the Building Caring Families program? Building Caring Families is a program for people who are ready to make personal commitments that will help them build and maintain caring families now or in the future, and to learn how to carry out those commitments safely and effectively. How does the Building Caring Families program work? The Building Caring Families website provides step-by-step opportunities for people to work independently in identifying specific personal commitments that they are ready to make, in developing practical and positive ways of building a healthy family, and in learning how to recognize and seek help in dealing with abusive behavior and other destructive patterns of functioning. Users of the program are encouraged to discuss their website experiences with one another, and in structured settings with skilled facilitators. What is the source of the material in the Building Caring Families program? Material in the program is based directly on family research published in scientific and professional journals. In particular, the program draws freely from published reports about the 20-year follow-up studies conducted by Dr. John Gottman and colleagues, and the ten-year follow-up studies conducted by Dr. Carolyn Pape Cowan and Dr. Philip Cowan and colleagues. How do members of the clergy and other professionals participate in the Building Caring Families program? Building Caring Families personnel are available to collaborate with community organizations in teaching local clergy and other professionals how to use the program in premarital education sessions, family health programs, community-based activities designed to prevent interpersonal violence, and other settings. In addition, clergy and other professionals serve as members of the program's core professional staff and panel of consultants. How is the Building Caring Families program evaluated? From the beginning, the Building Caring Families program was designed to be solidly based on research published in refereed scientific and professional journals, and to be structured in ways that would permit contributions to be made to the scientific and professional research literature for the benefit of people in many different population groups. Currently, information provided voluntarily by users and facilitators helps Building Caring Family personnel assess program safety and efficacy, and refine the program itself and the education of program facilitators. How can people make comments or ask questions about the Building Caring Families program? Please feel free to send your comments or questions to us at this e-mail address: frankelh at gmail dot com. |
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