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.
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.
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.
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.
This infographic shows opportunities to engage fathers in a child welfare case and gives examples of potentially promising engagement strategies.
This brief presents five infographics—one for each of the adult-serving grant recipients who participated in SIMR—called “Road Maps for Change.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
The Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare (FCL) project is testing a methodology to strengthen the engagement of fathers and paternal relatives with their children in child welfare and add to the evidence base on potentially promising engagement strategies.
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.
This report presents models of coordinated services at the state and local level and reports findings about state and local coordinated services approaches.
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.
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.
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.
This report shares findings from a national scan of existing state and local coordinated services approaches.
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.
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.
These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating RF programs.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Families on limited incomes face significant challenges navigating both low-wage employment or education and training programs and also finding good-quality child care.
The Leveraging, Integrating, Networking, Coordinating Supplies (LINCS) Consortium of colleges and universities received a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant to develop and create certification track content, exams, and certifications in eight areas of supply...
This report presents findings from a process study of two Healthy Marriage grantees that participated in the Parents and Children Together evaluation.
This report describes four federally funded responsible fatherhood programs serving primarily low-income Hispanic men. It focuses on the social, cultural, and other factors that influence how these four practitioners designed and implemented programs for this population.
As part of Mathematica’s Parents and Children Together evaluation, this report describes Responsible Fatherhood grants’ program design and implementation and presents data on enrollment, initial participation, retention, and the amount of services fathers received from December 2012 through August 2014....
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.