The NGA Center, with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, presented a series of webcasts on supporting healthy marriages and strong families.

Webcast 1 - Jul. 22
Family Structure and Child Well-Being: What Policymakers Should Know
This final webcast focused on talking with teenagers about healthy relationships.

Panelists:

• Marline Pearson, Madison Area Technical College
• Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Co-Director, National Marriage Project
• Paula DeBoles Johnson, Director of Capital City Youth, Tallahassee, Florida
• Joan Fossum, President of the National Association of State Administrators for Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS).

Webcast 2 - Aug. 31
Supporting Healthy Marriages and Strong Families
This webcast focused on efforts to build healthy relationships and sustain healthy marriages through marriage education.

Panelists:

• Bill Coffin, Special Assistant for Marriage Education, Administration for Families and Children, HHS
• Francesca Adler-Baeder, Auburn University, Alabama
• Dana Reichert, TANF Director for the state of Louisiana
• Carlis Williams, Regional Administrator, Administration for Children and Families, HHS.

Webcast 3 - Sept. 30
Starting Early: Talking about Healthy Relationships with Teenagers
This webcast explored some of the key research about how a family structure can affect children.

Panelists:

• Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Robert Emery, Director of Center for Children, Families and the Law, University of Virginia
• Robin Dion, Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research