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The Building Strong Families Program (BSF) is part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, "to learn whether well-designed interventions can help couples fulfill their aspirations for a healthy relationship, marriage, and a strong family."
The Healthy Families Program recently announced its reunion with the Herkimer County Public Health Department. Its services will run in conjunction with those currently operating out of the ...
A multi-year US federal study, known as the Building Strong Families Program, and 2010 meta-analysis [5] of 47 studies found that relationship education "does not improve relationship quality/satisfaction" for unmarried couples. "Previous studies have asserted that premarital education programs have a positive effect on program participants.
The Supporting Healthy Marriage Project (SHM) is part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, that was launched in 2003 as "the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples".
The study was titled, "Loving Couples, Loving Children," [20] and was a federally funded, multi-year Building Strong Families Program study contracted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. The study group included low-income, unwed couples.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the assistant secretary of health and human services for children and families. [1] It has a $49 billion budget for 60 programs that target children, youth and families. [2]
In 2010, 104 Healthy Start projects were providing services in 38 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Healthy Families America [12] offers credentialing, the identification of core elements [13] of the model, and technical assistance to help Healthy Start programs be successful.
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships [ edit ] A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in collaboration with Futures Without Violence, the RWJF and Blue Shield of California Foundation invested $18 million in 11 Start Strong communities across the country to identify and evaluate best practices in prevention ...