Promising Practices - National Healthy Marriage Resource Center

Promising Practices

Nobody wants to recreate the wheel. This section is dedicated to sharing promising practices about what seems to be working and what seems to not work in establishing and operating successful healthy marriage programs. These promising practices have come from the experience of other healthy marriage programs from all over the country that have hit bumps in the road and learned how to succeed. Running a good program requires openness to learning new strategies and making changes. While we recognize that every program is different, there are similar, cross-cutting issues that all programs face.

This page lists promising practices that provide strategies to help you address emerging issues based on what has worked for other programs in the past.

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Referral partner organizations are valuable tools to help get the word out and fill your program's seats.

Additional Resources

Marketing Healthy Marriage Programs to Married Couples (PDF - 915 KB) - Read this Tip Sheet to gain useful insights on how to tailor your healthy marriage program to the needs of busy, married couples.
Referral Partner Organizations: How to approach and engage them - National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (PDF - 204 KB) - This tip sheet will tell you what you need to know before making the first contact with potential partner referral organizations; how to pique their interest in your healthy marriage (HM) programs; and more
Effective Facilitation: Tips for improving skills and engaging audiences (PDF - 86 KB) - National Healthy Marriage Resource Center. The tip sheet provides tips on being an effective facilitator