10 Jan
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The Impact of Healthy Marriage Programs on Low-Income Couples and Families

This paper is an endeavor to look at healthy marriage education programs funded by the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) designed specifically to meet the needs of unmarried couples expecting a child or co-parenting a newborn. We will look at the unique challenges of the participants, varied program designs and service delivery strategies, as well as outcomes related to a specific group of healthy marriage grant programs. The intent is to continue the conversation around the question, "Do healthy marriage programs work?" raised and addressed in the Building Strong Families Study (Wood, McConnell, Moore, Clarkwest & Hsueh, 2010) by examining other programs operating in the field that are designed to serve the same target population and achieve similar goals.

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