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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.

Serving young fathers in home visiting programs: Highlights from a research study

Report

This brief summarizes findings from a qualitative research study that explored the strategies five home visiting programs use to engage fathers and the fathers’ experiences with the programs. Interviews with program staff and clients revealed…

Strengthening Families Curriculum Resource Guide

Toolkit

The Administration for Children and Families released a resource guide for healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood grantees that allows users to search curricula by a variety of facets including: implementation characteristics, targeted audience…

Modern Parenthood: Roles of Moms and Dads Converge as They Balance Work and Family

Report

This report from the Pew Research Center demonstrates that the roles of mothers and fathers in American society are converging in terms of how they spend their time and how they feel about work-life balance. It compares the attitudes of moms…

Child well-being and noncustodial fathers

This report displays and discusses some of the data related to the poverty of children and their living arrangements and data on male employment and earnings, educational attainment, and incarceration. It then provides information on federal…

Strengthening Families Evidence Review

Stakeholder Resource

The Administration for Children and Families presents the Strengthening Families Evidence Review. This website includes catalogs of research on programs for low-income fathers and couples, information on the review process, and a searchable…

Policies that Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

Report

Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has been shown to produce both economic and social benefits. This paper by MDRC examines two different approaches to strengthen fathers' involvement and their family relationships, fatherhood…

Piloting a community approach to Healthy Marriage Initiatives in five sites: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lexington, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Denver, Colorado

Report

In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) instituted the Community…

Parents’ Relationship Status Five Years After a Non-Marital Birth

Research-To-Practice Brief

The number of children born to unmarried parents has been steadily increasing. In 2005, 37 percent of children were born to unmarried parents. Responding to these trends, the Federal government implemented the Healthy Marriage Initiative. This…

Fathers’ Risk Factors and their Implications for Healthy Relationships and Father Involvement

Research-To-Practice Brief

This Fragile Families Brief, from the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University, focuses on how fathers’ risk factors are related to father involvement and relationship status among unmarried couples. Risk factors identified…

Meeting the Needs of Married, Low-income Stepfamily Couples in Marriage Education Services

Report

This report from the Office of Research, Planning, and Evaluation provides a conceptual framework for healthy marriage education intervention with low-income married step-couples based on research and practice lessons. Authors provide background…

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