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This brief presents six considerations for practitioners who want to try using text message reminders to increase participation at the first session of a voluntary program and regular attendance thereafter.
Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs for youth provide youth education on relationships through classroom-based curricula. Commonly used curricula cover topics such as knowing when you are ready for a relationship, understanding the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, avoiding teen dating violence, communicating effectively, and managing conflict. Some but not all curricula provide information on decision making about sexual activity and ways to avoid teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
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 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.
Read the evaluation design report the Fathers and Continuous Learning project, which is testing the use of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative to strengthen engagement of fathers and paternal relatives in the child welfare system
Describes practices from across the human services field that can inspire novel approaches to engaging families during program improvement, especially in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child support programs.
This report is the third in a series on the implementation and impacts of MotherWise and it documents the long-term impacts 30 after women (pregnant or parenting) enrolled in the study.
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.