Home & Family 
While Utah is well-known for being a family-oriented state, more must be done to ensure that women and girls can thrive in all settings. Focused initiatives are necessary to nurture environments that promote healthy relationships and overall flourishing in homes and families. Key areas of emphasis include healthy and balanced relationships, unpaid domestic labor, unpaid care work, emotional work, communication, and women’s sexual wellness. By prioritizing and addressing the unique needs and challenges faced by women and girls, Utah can create a thriving society for all. To learn more, check out the resource box below.
Spoke Leaders
As an advocate, leader, founder, and board member of several non-profit and corporate entities in Utah, Alyssa DeHart connects with diverse perspectives to overcome barriers and build bridges to improve life in Utah communities.
Bold Vision & Goals
To make Utah a place where more girls and women can flourish, the Home & Family spoke leaders and partners have crafted the vision and goals below.
Vision: To ensure that all individuals in Utah are educated and equipped with the knowledge and skills to cultivate healthy relationships and balanced partnerships.
Goals:
- Improve relationship skills and wellbeing for families by promoting resources for women through the Utah Marriage Commission, Healthy Relationships Utah, and other affiliated partners' websites, increasing website traffic annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Promote positive social norms toward shared responsibility (of domestic labor, care work, and emotional work) and women’s diverse family roles by publicly sharing examples. [Metric Dashboard]
- Promote healthier and more balanced relationships within homes and families by facilitating workshops in collaboration with county coalitions. [Metric Dashboard]
- Promote women’s knowledge and perceived agency regarding their sexual health and pleasure by facilitating or contributing to workshops, holding two annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Shift Utahns’ agreement (understanding and perceptions) in the following areas: [Metric Dashboard]
- In conflicts, my partner and I have an equal opportunity to express our views and influence the outcome. [Increase women’s agreement]
- I feel the load of domestic labor is shared equitably within my home. [Increase women’s agreement]
- I feel the load of caregiving is shared equitably within my home. [Increase women’s agreement]
- In our relationship, I feel that my partner's sexual needs are more important than my own. [Decrease women's agreement]
Thriving Statement: Women and girls thrive when they can make tangible progress towards fostering healthy relationships and balanced partnerships, which ultimately promote the flourishing of women, girls and all individuals across the state.
Subspokes & Working Groups
- Single Mothers Subspoke: Emily Martin Prisbrey (Founder/Owner, Martin Prisbrey, LLC), Jill Jackstein Angerbauer (Founder/Owner, Global Nonprofit Consulting) & Ave Love (Founder, Divorce Co-Op)
- Single Mothers & Legislation Working Group: Elle Pulsipher (Community Advocate) & Taralie Jones (Community Advocate)
- Single Mothers & Higher Education Working Group: Emily Martin Prisbrey (Founder/Owner, Martin Prisbrey, LLC) & Katie Bunnell (President, Live Your Dream Foundation)
- Single Mothers - Communication Outreach and Advocacy Working Group: Tiffany Unwin Sowby (Founder, Rising Violet)
- Single Mothers & Healthcare Working Group: Jill Angerbauer (Founder/Owner, Global Nonprofit Consulting)
- Single Mothers - Suicide/Mental Health Survivors Working Group: Yolanda Briganti White
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Single Mothers - Widows Support Working Group: Becky Nielsen Spencer (Community Advocate)
- Unpaid Labor Working Group
- Moms with Littles Working Group: Stacy Goulding (Owner, Stacylyn Coaching)
- Healthy Relationships Working Group
- Sexual Wellness Working Group
- Digital Wellness & Media Literacy Working Group: Michelle Linford (CEO, Centralign Consulting & Coaching)
- Communications Working Group
Spoke Resources & Research:
- Resources for Families
- What Utahns Need to Know
- Informational Video
- Spoke Introduction Podcast
- Living Room Conversation Guide
- Research Summary
- Facebook Group
- ePREP – Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program
- Smart Steps for Stepfamilies
- Home Run Parents
- Parenting the Love and Logic Way
- Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Stronger Marriage Connection Podcast with Dr. Dave & Dr. Liz
- UWLP New Research: Poverty & Homelessness and Home & Family
- Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
- Fair Play Resources
- Persist: Task Scheduling App for Equitable Division of Labor (Paid)
Partners
What You Can Do
Encourage your local school administrators and staff to offer healthy relationship workshops for high school students. See the Resources section on this page.
Encourage couples and parents in your spheres of influence to participate in free research-based workshops on healthy relationships. Healthy Relationships Utah provides courses and other resources on couples/dating, stepfamilies, parents, and self improvement.
Learn and share information about balanced distribution of domestic labor, care work, and emotional work. For example, resources on this page can be shared with family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, religious leaders, and on social media.
Get Engaged: Ways to get engaged include becoming a member or leader of a working group, sharing Home and Family resources and events with us, partnering with our spoke, and signing up for our newsletter. Thank you for your interest!
Megan Turner
Spoke Coordinator
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megan.bwf@gmail.com