This brief presents four tips for using data to guide improvements in HMRE services. The tips are drawn from the experiences of HMRE grantees participating in the ACF-funded SIMR project. In SIMR, ten grantees used data to learn about and enhance their services.
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Using Data to Guide Program Improvement in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education ServicesMar 31, 2023
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Adopting Motivation-Driven Approach to Case Management in HMRE ServicesMar 31, 2023
In the SIMR project, two HMRE grant recipients implemented an approach to case management that prioritizes participant goal setting and attainment. This brief shares tips for HMRE service providers to support strong implementation of motivation-driven case management.
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Road Maps for Change: Youth-Serving HMRE Grant Recipients' Rapid Cycle Learning in the SIMR ProjectMar 31, 2023
This brief summarizes lessons and insights from the SIMR project, focusing on the five youth-serving HMRE grant recipients that participated in SIMR. OPRE in ACF, with funding from OFA, contracted with Mathematica and its partner, Public Strategies, to conduct the SIMR project.
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Tips for Creating a Motivating and Supportive Environment for Staff Success in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education ServicesMar 31, 2023
This brief presents four tips for supporting staff providing HMRE services and examples from the experiences of the HMRE grant recipients who participated in SIMR. It focuses on ways to generate motivation and buy-in and provide organizational supports to staff.
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A Pathway to Engaging Fathers and Paternal Relatives in Child WelfareMar 31, 2023
This infographic shows opportunities to engage fathers in a child welfare case and gives examples of potentially promising engagement strategies.
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Road Maps for Change: Adult-Serving HMRE Grant Recipients' Rapid Cycle Learning in the SIMR ProjectMar 31, 2023
This brief presents five infographics—one for each of the adult-serving grant recipients who participated in SIMR—called “Road Maps for Change.”
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Championing Change: A Practitioner Guide for Leading Inclusive and Equity-Infused Rapid-Cycle LearningMar 13, 2023
This guide describes how practitioners can infuse equity principles into rapid-cycle learning efforts for program improvement. The guide reflects lessons from a collaborative project between Mathematica, Agape Child & Family Services, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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Tips for Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Recruitment for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education ProgramsFeb 28, 2023
Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs can struggle to recruit and enroll participants. An important component of many successful recruitment strategies is to develop partnerships with other organizations in the community that can refer potential participants.
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Tips for Delivering Engaging Virtual Workshop Sessions in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education ProgramsFeb 28, 2023
Virtual HMRE workshops—in which participants attend workshop sessions online with other participants—have expanded over the last several years. The transition to and implementation of virtual workshops is not without its challenges for participants and program staff, however.
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Conducting Rapid Cycle Learning with Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for YouthFeb 28, 2023
This report shares lessons and insights from the testing phase of the project, focusing on the five youth-serving healthy marriage and relationship education grant recipients that participated in SIMR.
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Conducting Rapid Cycle Learning with Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for AdultsFeb 28, 2023
This report shares lessons and insights from the testing phase of the project, focusing on the five adult-serving healthy marriage and relationship education grant recipients that participated in SIMR.
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Tips for Providing Skill Coaching to Reinforce Workshop Content in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education ProgramsFeb 28, 2023
Skill coaching, the process of helping participants use or apply a skill learned in a workshop, has shown promise in healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs—particularly those serving adult couples.
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Strategies to Support Co-Facilitation in Classroom SessionsJan 31, 2023
Co-facilitating sessions is a promising approach to supporting high-quality services in a classroom setting. This brief provides tips and tools for supporting strong co-facilitation to deliver engaging HMRE sessions in school-based settings.
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Strategies for Addressing Common Implementation Challenges in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs: A Guide for Supporting Program Improvement EffortsDec 30, 2022
To help address recruitment and retention challenges, HMRE practitioners should engage in CQI to identify challenges and test potential strategies designed to address them. This guide provides a set of approaches and strategies to address common challenges within the context of HMRE service delivery....
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Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare: Descriptive Evaluation Design ReportOct 31, 2022
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Defining a Two-Generation Logic ModelSep 30, 2022
This brief describes how two-generation initiatives participating in the NS2G project developed and refined a two-generation logic model to help them identify the right mix of services for primary caregivers and their children.
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Coordinated Services for Families: An In-Depth Look at Approaches that Coordinate Early Care and Education with Other Health and Human ServicesJun 30, 2022
This report presents models of coordinated services at the state and local level and reports findings about state and local coordinated services approaches.
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Learning to Adapt: Helping Agape Child & Family Services Use Rapid-Cycle Learning to Drive Equitable ChangeJun 14, 2022
Mathematica partnered with Agape Child & Family Services and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to use rapid-cycle learning and equity principles to help Agape adapt services for two of its place-based initiatives. This report describes the partners’ change efforts and lessons learned from the work.
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Supporting Families Through Coordinated Services PartnershipsFeb 28, 2022
To support children and families, many states and local organizations coordinate early care and education with other health and human services. This brief describes themes about partnerships from interviews with coordinated services approaches in the Assessing Models of Coordinated Services study.
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Developing Strategies to Address Implementation Challenges Facing Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education GranteesFeb 28, 2022
This report describes the design of the SIMR study and how grantees are using Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2) to design and test strategies to address implementation challenges.
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Assessing Models of Coordinated Services: A Scan of State and Local Approaches to Coordinating Early Care and Education with Other Health and Human ServicesMay 31, 2021
This report shares findings from a national scan of existing state and local coordinated services approaches.
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Building Staff Co-Regulation to Support Healthy Relationships in YouthMar 02, 2021
Youth need support to process emotions, cope with stress, and for self-regulation—managing thoughts and feelings to achieve goals and make healthy decisions in the moment and for the future.
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Measuring Co-Regulation: A Draft Tool for Observing Educators in Youth-Serving ProgramsJan 30, 2021
Youth need support to process emotions, cope with stress, and for self-regulation—managing thoughts and feelings to achieve goals and make healthy decisions in the moment and for the future.
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Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Responsible Fatherhood (RF) ProgramsOct 30, 2020
These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating RF programs.
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Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth: Executive SummaryOct 29, 2020
This is the executive summary for the Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth (SARHM) project. It’s a formative project to develop and test the integration of co-regulation approaches in two youth-serving HMRE programs.
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Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth: Final ReportOct 29, 2020
The final report for the Self-Regulation Training Approaches and Resources to Improve Staff Capacity for Implementing Healthy Marriage Programs for Youth (SARHM) project. It’s a formative project to develop and test the integration of co-regulation approaches in two youth-serving HMRE programs.
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Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Responsible Fatherhood Program Activities May Lead to Intended OutcomesJun 30, 2020
This report presents the four RF Pathways-to-Outcomes models, related to outcomes for which at least one program in the PACT evaluation had statistically significant impacts: (1) healthy relationships between co-parents, (2) father development and well-being, (3) consistent employment; and (4) parenting...
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Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Activities May Lead to Intended OutcomesJun 30, 2020
This report presents three HMRE Pathways-to-Outcomes models for HMRE programs serving adult couples, related to (1) delivering curriculum, (2) maximizing participation, and (3) addressing couple and individual characteristics.
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Foundations for Innovation: How Three Human Services Programs Laid the Groundwork for Sustainable ChangeNov 30, 2019
This practice brief introduces three foundations for innovation human services agencies can adopt to better serve children and families in an environment that has become more complex and challenging.
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SNAP Congressional Testimony: Addressing Proposed Changes to SNAP Waiver Area CriteriaApr 03, 2019
Cunnyngham summarized findings from a recent study commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that examined the characteristics of SNAP participants who could be affected by the proposed regulatory change.
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Implementation of Two Versions of Relationship Smarts Plus in GeorgiaDec 21, 2018
This process study report presents findings on the implementation of the Relationship Smarts Plus 3.0 (RS+) curriculum in two high schools in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
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Parents and Children Together: The Complex Needs of Low-Income Men and How Responsible Fatherhood Programs Address ThemMar 01, 2018
This report examines (1) the characteristics and views of fathers who voluntarily enrolled in responsible fatherhood programs aimed at increasing their parental involvement, (2) how the programs were designed and implemented, and (3) how the fathers responded to the services offered in the programs.
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Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Supporting Child Development and Improving Family Economic SecurityNov 30, 2017
This report provides policymakers and program administrators with information to better understand programs designed to help families achieve economic security and support children’s development.
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Conceptual Frameworks for Intentional Approaches to Improving Economic Security and Child Well-BeingNov 01, 2017
This brief describes two conceptual frameworks that have the potential to expand our understanding of programs that aim to meet the needs of low-income parents and children through intentionally combined activities and approaches.
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Features of Programs Designed to Help Families Achieve Economic Security and Promote Child Well-BeingSep 30, 2017
Families on limited incomes face significant challenges navigating both low-wage employment or education and training programs and also finding good-quality child care.
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Implementation of a Certification Program in Supply Chain Management for Early Career ProfessionalsSep 01, 2017
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Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Two Healthy Marriage ProgramsOct 26, 2016
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H-PACT: A Descriptive Study of Responsible Fatherhood Programs Serving Hispanic MenNov 30, 2015
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Parents and Children Together: Design and Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood ProgramsSep 30, 2015
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Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Two Approaches to Service DeliveryApr 24, 2015
This brief describes four grantees and how their different approaches to service delivery may address the needs of fathers, influence their engagement and participation in services, and affect the program content to which they are exposed.