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Explore how healthy marriage and relationship education, or responsible fatherhood programs, can include participants in their program research and evaluation.

Describes the design of the Strengthening the Implementation of Marriage and Relationship Programs (SIMR) study and how Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) grantees are using Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2) to design and test strategies to address implementation challenges.

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

This brief highlights six considerations for using social media in research study outreach and tracking in a healthy marriage and relationship education evaluation.

Through this evidence-and-gaps map, examine what recent healthy marriage and relationship education programs for youth have found.

The purpose of this brief is to describe how COVID-19 affected fathers’ relationships and healthy relationship programming and explore lessons learned for fatherhood programs to ultimately improve healthy relationship programming in fatherhood programs moving forward.

Explore this interactive evidence and gaps map, or knowledge map, to learn more about the effects of parenting programs for incarcerated and re-entering fathers.

Explore staffing and partnering approaches that healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood (HMRF) grantees can consider for strengthening implementation of programs.

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?

The purpose of this report is to inform both ACF and the broader fatherhood practice and research fields about the ways in which fatherhood programs support, or could better support, fathers’ healthy coparenting and romantic relationships.