Browsing by Author "Son, Seohee"

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    Dollar Works 2 Program Evaluation Impact Study
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2010) Heins, Rosemary K.; Petersen, Cindy M.; Anderson-Porisch, Shirley J.; Son, Seohee; Bauer, Jean W.; Hooper, Susan E.; Marczak, Mary; Olson, Patricia D.; Wilk, Norman Barrett
    Does teaching using the Dollar Works 2 curricula affect financial knowledge, attitudes and behavior? To answer this question, a quasiexperimental research study was conducted in 2009-2010 with a treatment group and control group. Ninety-two participants completed surveys at three different time points over a 2-3 month period. Within this period they participated in six-hours of class using Dollar Works 2 materials. The study participants were from urban and rural Minnesota with a mix of ages, years of education, race, gender, living arrangements, employment, housing and income adequacy. This poster focuses on the study procedures and reasons for the process chosen.
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    Dollar Works 2: Impact Evaluation Report
    (University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2011-01-06) Bauer, Jean W; Son, Seohee; Hur, Ju; Anderson-Porisch, Shirley; Heins, Rosemary; Petersen, Cindy; Hooper, Susan; Marczak, Mary; Olson, Patricia D; Barrett Wiik, Norman
    Dollar Works 2 education is effective for money behaviors, financial satisfaction, and access to financial information when delivered in a six-hour dosage. The impact evaluation study was with community participants who are considered high risk in the financial education field. If financial education can be effective for this population, it will be effective with groups that have fewer problems and tend to seek solutions to their financial problems. This study was conducted during a time when the economic environment was difficult for many people including those who participated in the study. Dollar Works 2 is a personal financial education program that was developed by the University of Minnesota Extension.
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    Dollar Works 2: Impact Evaluation Summary
    (University of Minnesota Extension, Center for Family Development, 2011-01-06) Bauer, Jean W; Son, Seohee; Hur, Ju; Anderson-Porisch, Shirley; Heins, Rosemary; Petersen, Cindy; Hooper, Susan; Marczak, Mary; Olson, Patricia D; Barrett Wiik, Norman
    Dollar Works 2 education is effective for money behaviors, financial satisfaction, and access to financial information when delivered in a sixhour dosage. The impact evaluation study was with community participants who are considered high risk in the financial education field. If financial education can be effective for this population, it will be effective with groups that have fewer problems and tend to seek solutions to their financial issues. This study was conducted during a time that the economic environment was difficult for many people including these who participated in the study. Dollar Works 2 is a personal financial education program developed by the University of Minnesota Extension.
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    Korean divorced mothers' experiences of parenting after divorce.
    (2010-08) Son, Seohee
    The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean divorced mothers experience parenting after divorce. The data were collected from 17 Korean divorced mothers who were divorced between the years of 2004 and 2009 and were raising at least one minor child. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted between July and September of 2009 in Seoul and its satellite cities in South Korea. Data were analyzed based on the phenomenological data analysis method. Most of the Korean divorced mothers had difficulties establishing cooperative relationships with the children's fathers, and the fathers' involvement with their children after the divorce was very limited even though most mothers wanted the fathers to voluntarily be involved in their children's lives. Regarding postdivorce parenting agreements including custody, child support, and visitation, most of the mothers decided to raise their children themselves since they believed that they were more appropriate parents compared to the fathers considering the well-being of the children. Out of the 17 mothers, 14 agreed to receive child support from the children's fathers at the time of the divorce. However, only five mothers received child support from the fathers at the time of the interviews. In addition, only the children of nine mothers had contact with their fathers at the time of the interviews. The 2007 civil law modification that requires Korean divorcing parents to develop parenting agreements prior to divorce might not have much influence on the divorced parents' decision-making process of parenting after the divorce based on the mothers' experiences of this study. Most of the Korean divorced parents did not have many conversations about their anticipated parental roles and parental relationships at the time of the divorce. As a result, most of the divorced parents had lack of consensus on postdivorce parental roles and responsibilities, and they often experienced conflict over the fathers' involvement after the divorce. These mothers' experiences were very similar regardless of when their divorces were finalized, either before or after the 2007 civil law modification. This finding suggests that the divorce policy in Korea needs to help divorced parents understand their new roles and responsibilities after divorce and establish cooperative coparenting relationships. This study discusses the effectiveness of Korean divorce policy and Korean divorced parents' misunderstandings about postdivorce parental responsibilities and parenting relationships. This unprepared society and underprepared families facing divorce could contribute to a much reduced well-being of children of divorce. This study also discusses the lack of the children's best interest in divorce and the meaning of the father's role after divorce in Korea. The policy implications from the present study are (a) expanding parenting education for divorced parents, (b) improving the child support policy by introducing child support guidelines and enhancing child support collection systems, and (c) increasing social support for needy single-mother families.
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    Practical Financial Strategies for Tackling Tough Economic Times Programs
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2009-10) Heins, Rosemary K.; Anderson-Porisch, Shirley J.; Petersen, Cindy M.; Bauer, Jean W.; Hendrickson, Lori A.; Hooper, Susan E.; Hagen Jokela, Rebecca; Garbow, Jennifer S.; Onstad, Phyllis A.; Burk, Gabriela; Son, Seohee
    The 2009, the US economy included rising unemployment rates, job layoffs,foreclosures, credit crisis, and stock market value loss. Changes have happened so quickly that when consumers and clients request assistance, practitioners need resources “at hand” to address a critical need. There is little time to “re-invent the wheel” of financial education – adaptation of existing resources is the timely strategy! Dollar Works 2 Action Pages were utilized to rapidly address critical financial planning needs through ‘Practical financial strategies for tackling tough economic times’ programming in the first half of 2009. A team developed ‘Practical Strategies’ presentation materials to use when teaching helping professionals or for teaching directly to individuals and families. Evaluation materials provided practitioners or extension educators an opportunity to gathering learner outcome and impact data quickly. ‘Practical Strategies’ materials have been utilized by six Family Resource Management Educators to address situations such as employment and business loss/lay-off; loss of 22 personal savings especially for retirement; limited or loss of human services support; and recovery from flood damage. Eight programs reached 110 helping professionals working in Minnesota Workforce Center sites. Direct delivery programming reached over 200 individuals and families at sites ranging from libraries to a major corporation credit union.