Dalena Dillman Taylor is an associate professor in 166su/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology and is co-principal investigator of Project Harmony./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/nThe goal is to help keep families intact because stable households also strengthen communities, says Dalena Dillman Taylor, a 166su associate professor of counselor education, senior implementation director for the Institute and co-principal investigator of the project./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u201cThere are disadvantages to when a couple breaks up,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u201d says Dillman Taylor. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u201cChildren are impacted, and financially, one partner may be struggling more than another when those committed relationships break apart. So, you/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019re seeing a lot of negative outcomes happening./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
While Project Harmony 1.0 worked with individuals and couples, Harmony 2.0 will focus specifically on couples./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
The program is open to anyone, but recruitment efforts are especially focused on serving those who are economically vulnerable. For people who have completed the program, 98 percent say that they enjoyed their experience through Project Harmony, and 95 percent say that they would refer a family member or friend to receive the services./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
Project Harmony uses an established intervention program that participants complete called Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program, or PREP, that has been proven to be effective through 30 years of research, much of which was performed at the University of Denver and funded by the National Institutes of Health./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
Couples participating online or face-to-face in Harmony 2.0 will receive gift cards for their time, and couples participating in the face-to-face sessions will also receive free meals and childcare./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration of Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
Barden earned her doctoral degree in counselor education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her master/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s and education specialist degrees in marriage and family therapy from the University of Florida. She joined 166su/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology, part of 166su/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s College of Community Innovation and Education, in 2011./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/nDillman Taylor received her doctoral degree in counseling with a specialty in play therapy and master of education in counseling degree from the University of North Texas and her bachelor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She joined 166su /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/u2019s Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology in 2013./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The money will expand a successful relationship education program to help more Central Florida families manage stress and conflict, which have heightened during the pandemic. The program will also provide an online option to give families more access./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":114865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,23],"tags":[17177,8501],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-114863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-research","tag-college-of-community-innovation-and-education","tag-counselor-education"],"yoast_head":"/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114863/n
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