Program Implementation

Healthy marriage programs across the country are helping families achieve happy, healthy, and stable marriages. Whether your healthy marriage program is new or established, privately funded or a grantee, we can help you in your mission.

  • Get Started: Identify your audience and determine their needs, choose program activities, market and recruit for your program, and create a foundation for success.
  • Become a Marriage Educator: Learn how to become an effective marriage educator.
  • Facilitate a Workshop:  Tools and resources to enhance your facilitation skills, build group cohesion and illustrate ideas and concepts.
  • Manage Your Program: Ensure that all parts of your program are performing to their full potential through effective program management.
  • Evaluate Your Program: Find resources to help you regularly evaluate the effectiveness of your healthy marriage program.

Promising Practices Guide - Healthy Marriage and Relationship Programs: Promising Practices in Serving Low-Income and Culturally Diverse Populations  This guide shares what we have learned to date about promising practices in healthy marriage and relationship (HMR) programs, especially those serving low-income and culturally diverse populations. It is intended to be helpful to a variety of audiences, including those who are interested in starting a new program, those already involved in running a program, and those who are evaluating or funding such programs.

Emerging Findings from the Office of Family Assistance Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grant Programs - A Review of Select Grantee Profiles and Promising Results  This report summarizes the service models, activities, and preliminary outcomes of a select group of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees that were awarded funds under the Deficit Reduction Act in September 2006.  The grantees highlighted in this report were identified by James Bell Associates (JBA) as part of the Office of Family Assistance's "Promising Practices" initiative to document programs that show evidence of positive participant outcomes.

The Administration for Children and Families Healthy Marriage Initiative 2002 - 2009: An Introductory Guide (PDF - 875 KB)  In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) launched a Healthy Marriage Initiative and began funding research and service programs. This Introductory Guide provides a descriptive summary of the ACF Initiative.