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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: Final implementation findings

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The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the effectiveness of a skills-based relationship education program designed to help low-income married couples strengthen their relationships and, in turn, support more…

Exploratory study of decision-making in low-income couples: Technical report

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This project explored how low-income couples make decisions. Specifically, the project explored, through observational methods, the mechanisms and factors which influence the couple as a unit (as well as the individual partners in low-income…

Intergenerational Relationships and Union Stability in Fragile Families

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This research article uses data from the Fragile Families Study to analyze intergenerational family relationships and stability among married and unmarried parents within five years of a child’s birth. Authors find that positive relationships…

Early lessons from the implementation of a relationship and marriage skills program for low-income married couples

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This report presents early implementation and operational lessons from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation. Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, SHM uses a rigorous research design to test the effectiveness of a…

Piloting a community approach to Healthy Marriage Initiatives in five sites: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lexington, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Denver, Colorado

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In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) instituted the Community…

The Building Strong Families project: Strengthening unmarried parents' relationships: The early impacts of Building Strong Families

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Although most children raised by single parents fare well, on average, they are at…

Providing culturally relevant services: Programs in the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative implementation evaluation

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The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative is a focused strategy to address the unique cultural, linguistic, demographic, and socioeconomic needs of a growing population of Hispanic children and families in the United States.

The…

The Building Strong Families project: Strengthening unmarried parents' relationships: The early impacts of Building Strong Families: Technical report

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This report is a technical supplement to the 15-month impact report for the Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation (Wood et al. 2010). It provides additional detail about the research design (Chapter I), analytic methods (Chapter II), and…

Implementation of the Building Strong Families program

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The Building Strong Families (BSF) project is a large-scale program demonstration and rigorous evaluation to learn whether well-designed interventions can help interested romantically involved unmarried parents build stronger relationships and…

Supporting healthy marriage: Designing a marriage education demonstration and evaluation for low-income married couples: Working paper

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In recent decades, there has been a widening gap between higher rates of marital instability for economically disadvantaged couples and lower rates for nondisadvantaged couples. In addition, out-of-wedlock birth rates have risen, while evidence…

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