ACF, with support from the Welfare Peer TA Network, sponsored the Developing a Marriage Initiative for Your State workshop on September 17-18, 2002, in Oklahoma City, OK. Participants primarily represented Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and child support staff from the following States: Iowa, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. The purpose of this 2-day workshop was to create an interactive dialogue with State policy makers/administrators concerning their efforts and effective strategies to develop and implement marriage and healthy families initiatives. Specific topics covered during the workshop included utilizing survey data to develop a statewide marriage initiative, components of a marriage curriculum, developing interagency partnerships, handling resistance and skepticism to marriage program, and working with community partners to implement a marriage initiative. (Author abstract).