Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

This webpage provides resources to support TANF programs in supporting positive outcomes for families by providing strategies to align and partner with Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) programs.
Young daughter with her mother, father and dog, enjoying together in park.
Report

In recent years, many healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs serving couples with low incomes have offered participants economic stability services in addition to traditional HMRE programming focused on relationship skills.…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This brief presents six considerations for practitioners who want to try using text message reminders to increase participation at the first session of a voluntary program and regular attendance thereafter. The considerations are drawn from a…

Toolkit

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse released a toolkit which presents a compilation of resources that highlight the challenges and key issues associated with launching and sustaining a successful fatherhood program. This toolkit…

Research-To-Practice Brief

The vastly altered societal context since March 2020 has created an opportunity for responsible fatherhood programs to partner with systems such as child welfare, child support, criminal justice, public assistance, workforce development, and…

Webinar / Webcast

More than 3,000 Family Resource Centers (FRCs) in 36 states and the District of Columbia work with more than 2 million people annually, and because they have emerged organically without dedicated federal funding, they are often described as…

Research-To-Practice Brief

Healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) programs for youth provide young people with information on the social and emotional aspects of romantic relationships through structured, classroom-based curricula. Programs are typically…