Programs and Grantees

There are many programs working with families to help them achieve their goal of happy, healthy and stable marriages. Whether your healthy marriage program is in the beginning stages or you have several years of experience under your belt, are privately funded or a federal healthy marriage grantee, the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) will help you in your mission. This section of the NHMRC website will help you in your efforts to strengthen marriages and families. It offers strategies and promising practices for delivering marriage education services. It also features information to help you manage, sustain, and evaluate your program. We also have information on how to get involved with a healthy marriage program, become a marriage educator, or start your own program.

As an Administration for Children and Families grantee, you can go to the Community of Practice, a web–based community designed especially for grantees to help you stay "in the know". (Please note: This section is password protected. Please contact your federal project officer for more information on how to log in to the Community.)

Marriage Program Start-up: This section includes information on how to identify the needs of your population, identify and build relationships with community partners, start up marketing and recruitment, and how to maximize your efforts to make sure that program is built on a solid foundation.
Becoming a Marriage Educator: This section includes information on becoming and hiring a marriage educator, including curriculum information, training, and resources for marriage educators.
Program Management: This section includes information on program management, which involves skills of coordinating different processes, prioritizing tasks, and overcoming bottlenecks and challenges that are slowing down your services, as well as how to manage in a way that will track your program's overall progress.
Program Evaluation: This section will detail some basic steps and walk you through how to conduct an evaluation, identify some things you need to consider to make sure your evaluation goes smoothly, and help you to integrate the evaluation seamlessly into your program activities so that your clients aren't burdened by the evaluation efforts.
Program Spotlight: This section information on a specific, innovative Healthy Marriage Program.
Promising Practices: This section is dedicated to sharing promising practices about what works and what doesn't in establishing and operating successful healthy marriage programs.
Training and Technical Assistance: This section provides information on training and technical assistance (T & TA) to equip healthy marriage programs with the practical skills and knowledge to successfully run their programs.
Federal Healthy Marriage Programs: This section is dedicated to healthy marriage program operators involved in federal research projects, demonstrations or grants.