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The Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)

Eight Allowable Activities of the Healthy Marriage Promotion Grant

  1. Public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health.
  2. Education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting.
  3. Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs, that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement, for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers.
  4. Pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples and for couples or individuals interested in marriage.
  5. Marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples.
  6. Divorce reduction programs that teach relationship skills.
  7. Marriage mentoring programs which use married couples as role models and mentors in at-risk communities.
  8. Programs to reduce the disincentives to marriage in means-tested aid programs, if offered in conjunction with any activity described above.