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
Lisa Reeves
Community Advocate
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Lisa Stoddard-Reeves is currently doing graduate work in religious studies with Harvard. She graduated from BYU in humanities/art history. She is interested in women's issues, healthy sexuality, mindfulness, peace studies and how power shapes our interactions and environment.
Tiffiney Christiansen
Board, UT Marriage Commission
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Tiffiney Christiansen is a Board Member for the Utah Marriage Commission as she is committed to preserving and honoring marriage. Her professional career has been in marketing and sales; she is currently the Vice President of Sales at Leavitt Group.
JaLee Clarke
Community Advocate
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JaLee Clarke has served in professional leadership roles with strategic initiatives, executives’ advisor, human resources, and advisor relations. She sits on the Board of Governors for Heritage Schools, a relationship-based, residential school for youth.
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 communication and relationship skills among individuals and families in Utah by increasing public engagement with the Utah Marriage Commission, Healthy Relationships Utah, and affiliated partners' websites by 5% annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Increase the awareness of the importance of a balanced distribution of domestic labor, care work, and emotional work by 10% by 2027 and 20% by 2030. [Metric Forthcoming]
- Promote positive social norms towards shared responsibility by publicly sharing 20 examples annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Establish a Home & Family online platform by 2025 for Utah girls and women to share knowledge and resources and build community; attract new users annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Promote healthier and more balanced relationships within homes and families by facilitating workshops in collaboration with county coalitions, holding two in each county annually. [Metric Dashboard]
- Increase women's knowledge and perceived agency regarding their sexual health and pleasure by increasing comprehensive education and practical skills training by 10% by 2027 and 20% by 2030. [Metric Forthcoming]
- Change Utahns’ agreement (understanding and perceptions) in the following areas: [Metric Dashboard]
- I have an equal voice in decision making within my home. [Increase women’s agreement by 5% by 2026 and 10% by 2030]
- I feel the load of domestic labor is shared equitably within my home. [Increase women’s agreement by 10% by 2026 and 20% by 2030]
- I feel the load of caregiving is shared equitably within my home. [Increase women’s agreement by 10% by 2026 and 20% by 2030]
- I value my own sexual satisfaction as equally important as a partner’s satisfaction. [Increase women’s agreement by 5% by 2026 and 10% by 2030]
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.
Spoke Resources:
- 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
- Research Summary
- Stronger Marriage Blog
- 2-1-1
- Therapists in UT
- Our Relationship: Education for Service Members/Veterans
- Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
- Hidden Gems: Family & Relationship Guides
- Disagree Better
- RELATE Relationship Assessment
Partners
Working Groups
- Unpaid Labor: Alan Hawkins (Manager, Utah Marriage Commission)
- Women & Children: Stacy Goulding (Owner, Stacylyn Coaching)
- Healthy Relationships: Jeremy Boden
- Sexual Wellness
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!
Charlotte Williams
Spoke Coordinator
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charlotte.abwf@gmail.com