The essay aims to help other human services providers understand and use rapid cycle learning techniques to address their key challenges. It shares grant recipients’ perspectives and advice for conducting rapid cycle learning, based on their experiences in SIMR.
This report shares lessons and insights from the testing phase of the project, focusing on the five youth-serving healthy marriage and relationship education grant recipients that participated in SIMR.
This report shares lessons and insights from the testing phase of the project, focusing on the five adult-serving healthy marriage and relationship education grant recipients that participated in SIMR.
This brief describes how HMRE and RF programs might influence child well-being and provides recommendations for evaluators who want to measure child well-being in their studies.
This report examined how the one-on-one economic stability services, including one-on-one employment counseling services and financial coaching, contributed to the Empowering Families program’s overall impacts on the economic outcomes of participants after one year.
This brief describes typical patterns of participation in three programs that were part of the STREAMS evaluation. It identifies distinct patterns of participation in each of these programs and provides profiles of the clients who participate in these distinct ways.
This report describes the MotherWise program’s impacts 30 months after women enrolled in the study. These impacts were estimated by comparing the outcomes of women who were randomly assigned to either a group that was offered MotherWise services or a control group that was not.
This report describes typical patterns of participation in three programs that were part of the STREAMS evaluation. It identifies distinct patterns of participation in each of these programs and provides profiles of the clients who participate in these distinct ways.
A small but growing body of evidence suggests individualized support services and improved access to contraception can promote healthy birth spacing among adolescent mothers.
This white paper provides an overview of the ways that evaluations of HMRE and RF programs have measured child well-being and offers recommendations for HMRE and RF evaluators who are interested in including child well-being measures in their studies.
This report describes the design of the SIMR study and how grantees are using Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI2) to design and test strategies to address implementation challenges.
Most children in the United States will spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents; the child support system is designed to ensure that they nonetheless receive financial support.
In this brief, we summarize the impact literature on HMRE programs for youth that aim to improve young people’s understanding of romantic relationships and prepare them to have healthy romantic relationships in adolescence and adulthood.
Empowering Families integrates economic stability services including, employment services and financial education with healthy marriage and relationship education content for couples with low incomes who have children. This report focuses on the implementation and impacts of Empowering Families.
This report describes Motherwise’s impacts after one year as well as information on program implementation and costs. These impacts were estimated by comparing the outcomes of women who were randomly assigned to either a group that was offered MotherWise services or a control group that was not.
This brief explores how healthy marriage and relationship education programs can better serve unmarried couples with children.
This brief provides highlights from the first healthy marriage technical work group meeting, which was held as part of the FRAMING Research project.
This brief provides highlights from the first responsible fatherhood technical work group meeting, which was held as part of the FRAMING Research project.
This brief provides a final summary of key implementation and impact findings from the evaluation of Teen Choice in New York. It encapsulates findings from two earlier reports that provide detailed evidence on the program’s impacts and implementation.
This brief summarizes key findings from a random assignment impact study of Steps to Success, a home visiting program in San Antonio, Texas, designed to reduce rapid repeat pregnancy among young mothers.
This brief summarizes findings from a random assignment impact study of Wise Guys, a long-standing, widely implemented curriculum designed to help adolescent males make responsible decisions about their sexual behavior.
This report presents evidence on the longer-term impacts of the Wise Guys Male Responsibility Curriculum in middle schools in and near the city of Davenport, Iowa.
This report is the last in a series on the implementation and impacts of Steps to Success. It presents evidence on the program’s longer-term impacts relative to HFSA’s traditional home visiting program focused on parenting and child development.
This short brief summarizes key findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Demonstration (CSPED) impact and benefit-cost analyses.
This report presents evidence on the impacts of the Teen Choice curriculum for youth in alternative schools in and around New York City.
This report describes the impact of CSPED, an eight-state demonstration of child support-led employment programs for noncustodial parents behind in their child support sponsored by OCSE, which operated from 2012 to 2017.
This technical supplement to the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Demonstration (CSPED) final impact report provides detailed information about the evaluation design, its data sources and analytic methods, and the construction of outcomes variables.
This brief summarizes findings from a random assignment impact study of an adapted version of the Reducing the Risk teen pregnancy prevention curriculum in rural Kentucky.
This report is the second in a series on the implementation and impacts of Steps to Success in San Angelo, Texas. It presents evidence on the program’s interim impacts, measured about one year into the two-year program.
This report presents evidence on the early impacts of the Wise Guys Male Responsibility Curriculum in middle schools in and near the city of Davenport, Iowa.
The federal government has made a long-standing commitment to supporting healthy relationships and stable families.
This final report presents two-year impacts of the adapted eight-hour version of Reducing the Risk, a teen pregnancy prevention curriculum, details program costs, and documents the study methods.
This brief summarizes key findings from a study of the implementation of the Teen Choice curriculum, a 12-session program that uses interactive exercises and guided discussions to deliver information to groups of 8 to 12 students on abstinence, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and healthy...
This brief summarizes the key findings on implementing Steps to Success in San Angelo Texas.
To date, there has been little research on adolescent pregnancy prevention programming designed to meet the needs of youth in alternative school settings. This report summarizes the curriculum developer’s experience implementing Teen Choice in these settings.
This report examines short-term impacts from an adapted version of the Reducing the Risk in Kentucky high schools. It is part of a multi-component evaluation of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), led by Mathematica for the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. DHHS.
This issue brief shares highlights from the implementation evaluation of an adolescent pregnancy prevention program funded by Kentucky’s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant. The Reducing the Risk curriculum was designed to meet the needs of rural youth.
This issue brief shares highlights from the implementation evaluation of the Wise Guys program, funded by Iowa’s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) grant. The Wise Guys curriculum aims to promote male responsibility and discourage early entry into fatherhood.
This fact sheet describes the Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services (STREAMS) project, a multi-site, random assignment evaluation of healthy marriage and relationship education programs funded through the Office of Family Assistance in the Administration for Children and Families...
This report summarizes the key findings from the implementation of the Steps to Success and Traditional Healthy Families programs.
This report summarizes key findings from a study of the implementation of an adapted version of Reducing the Risk in Kentucky high schools.
As part of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) multicomponent evaluation, Mathematica Policy Research is conducting a random assignment impact study of four PREP-funded programs. Key outcomes of interest include sexual initiation and rates of unprotected sex and pregnancy.
This report describes plans for an impact study of four programs funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
Healthy marriage relationship skills education programs serving unmarried parents aim to help these couples improve their relationships, with the ultimate aim of supporting family stability and promoting child well-being.
Presents final findings from a large-scale, random assignment evaluation of Building Strong Families (BSF), a program offering relationship skills education to low-income, unmarried parents who are expecting or recently had a baby.
The proportion of children born to unmarried parents continues to increase. Currently, more than 4 out of every 10 children born in the United States have unmarried parents.
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports.
In recent years, marriage patterns in the U.S. have changed dramatically, with adults spending more time unmarried, and cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing becoming increasingly common.
In the past decade, policymakers and researchers have become increasingly interested in social programs that promote and support healthy marriages.
This brief summarizes the findings of a synthesis of the literature on the effects of marital status on health outcomes in the U.S.
A burgeoning literature suggests that marriage may have a wide range of benefits, including improvements in individuals' economic well-being and mental and physical health, as well as the well-being of their children.
A Research Report from the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Evaluation.