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This report describes typical patterns of participation in three programs that were part of the STREAMS evaluation and it identifies distinct patterns of participation in each of these programs and provides profiles of the clients who participate in these distinct ways.

This report is the second in a series on the implementation and impacts of a novel program, Family and Workforce Centers of America, that sought to integrate HMRE into an employment training program for young adults.

This brief discusses possible ways to strengthen the implementation and evaluation of HMRE programs for youth, as it presents several practical considerations to inform future evaluations and increase the chances for programs to show evidence of favorable impacts on their intended outcomes.

This brief offers lessons for healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) program providers seeking to integrate HMRE and economic stability services.

Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs aim to support the well-being of families. For such programs to be effective, it is critical that clients attend regularly, yet studies have found that HMRE program providers sometimes struggle to maintain high rates of participation. Identifying and exploring typical participation patterns in HMRE programming can help us better understand this challenge and point to ways in which programs can promote and support regular participation.

This study investigates participation patterns in three HMRE programs that were included in the Strengthening Relationships and Marriage Services (STREAMS) evaluation: (1) MotherWise, which served pregnant and new mothers in Denver, Colorado; (2) Career STREAMS, which served young adults seeking job training and employment services in St. Louis, Missouri; and (3) Empowering Families, which served couples with low incomes raising children together in Fort Worth, Texas. These three programs represent a range of HMRE program services and populations and offer opportunities to develop deeper insights into participation patterns in HMRE programs.

Understanding the relationships of unmarried adult couples is central to understanding contemporary family life in the United States. As a growing share of adults in the United States are postponing or foregoing marriage, marriage rates have declined and the percentage of adults in unmarried and cohabiting relationships has increased. Unmarried relationships can range from fragile on-again, off-again relationships to highly committed relationships that resemble marriage. This report examines survey data collected from a diverse sample of 356 unmarried adults about their breakups with a romantic partner.

This healthy marriage impact report addresses the following primary research question:

What are the impacts of the Empowering Families program on couples’ relationship status and quality, co-parenting quality, connection to the labor market, labor market success, and family economic well-being?

This report describes the impacts of text message reminders on couples’ continuing attendance and initial attendance at one particular site's HMRE workshop sessions.

Although research shows adult participants in HMRE programs enjoy participating and find them worthwhile, programs often face challenges recruiting participants and reaching enrollment targets. Programs conducting evaluations that require random assignment and data collection can face additional challenges (for example, increasing recruitment to account for random assignment of some applicants to a comparison group). Recruitment challenges are not unique to HMRE programs...

This report describes the design of the formative evaluation, as well as the process the study team used for identifying the facilitation training needs and developing the training curriculum for youth focused programs.