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This brief shares four tips to support grant recipients interested in recruiting Spanish-speaking immigrant men.

This expansive toolkit provides guidance, real world examples, and resources to help TANF and child support programs engage the families they serve in improving service delivery, policy, and program operations.

Explore a digital, interactive overview of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees that received five-year grants from the Administration for Children and Families in September 2015.

Suggestions from previous research on how to measure child wellbeing in healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programs.

While significant research has come forward to improve our collective understanding of human services programs and their contribution to the economic and social well-being of individuals and families, notable knowledge gaps continue to persist regarding how these programs can best serve the needs and interests of rural communities.

Explore the key findings from the final report of OPRE’s Project SPARK on evaluation technical assistance (TA), which describes a proposed definition of evaluation TA, a conceptual framework for evaluation TA, and a review of the approaches and evidence of promise or effectiveness of evaluation TA initiatives.

Hear from fatherhood program staff members and mentors describe their experiences participating in SIRF in their own words.

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

This brief describes the process used to gather input for a future child support learning agenda and summarizes the key themes in questions identified during workshops with federal staff and external experts. This brief is useful for practitioners and researchers interested in potential directions for building evidence on child support services. The methodology may be of interest to organizations seeking to engage federal and external experts to inform a learning agenda.

This brief highlights examples of how child welfare agencies participating in the Fathers and Continuous Learning project leveraged partnerships to increase father and paternal relative engagement, and describes how those examples may inform strategies that fatherhood programs can use to increase father engagement; connect fathers and families to resources; create a more cohesive client experience across father-serving organizations; expand capacity to serve a diverse group of fathers; and document, understand, and communicate the outcomes of their programs.