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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.

What We Know About Unmarried Parents: Implications for Building Strong Families Program

Research-To-Practice Brief

This research brief outlines the "Building Strong Families" project, which aims at helping new, unmarried parents gain the skills necessary to build healthy marriages. The project was created with expected outcomes to enhance the wellbeing of…

The Consequences of Marriage for African-Americans: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Report

The proportion of married African-American couples has declined over the past years. This report seeks to identify the potential consequences to African-American families due to these low marriage rates and compare the consequences of marriage to…

What We Know About Unmarried Parents: Implications for Building Strong Families Programs

Research-To-Practice Brief

Authored by Marcia Carlson of Columbia University, Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, Paula England of Stanford University, and Barbara Devaney of Mathematica Policy Research. This brief, the third in a series from the Building Strong…

Piloting a community approach to healthy marriage initiatives: Early implementation of the Healthy Families Nampa demonstration

Report

The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI) is a key component of the…

West Virginia Healthy Marriage Forum and Strategic Planning Session, Final Report

Report

This report describes a meeting that took place in Charleston, WV, on November 3, 2004, sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The meeting was a follow-up to a a Healthy Marriage Forum that took place in Charleston, WV,…

What is "Healthy Marriage?" Defining the Concept

Research-To-Practice Brief

Authored by Kristin A. Moore. This recent brief from Child Trends examines the concept of healthy marriage and the elements that, taken together, help define it. Drawing from available research studies and data, theoretical writings, and short…

What is "Healthy Marriage"? Defining the Concept

Research-To-Practice Brief

From Child Trends, this Research Brief defines healthy marriage by examining the concepts related to this term such as commitment, marital satisfaction, and communication, as well as two opposing elements of violence and infidelity. The…

Marriage-Related Policies: State Policy Choices, a data summary by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

Dataset

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) recently created tables that summarize marriage-related policies in all 50 States. These policies include State marriage mentoring, education, and counseling programs; State marriage and divorce…

Marriage-Related Policies: Treatment of Marriage in Other Policies, a data summary by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)

Dataset

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) recently created tables that summarize marriage-related policies in all 50 States. These policies include State marriage mentoring, education, and counseling programs; State marriage and divorce…

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative Workshop

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network sponsored a multi-State TA event on July 15-16, 2003, in Oklahoma City, OK. This event was co-coordinated with Public Strategies, the public relations firm that manages the Oklahoma Marriage…

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