Resource Library

This report aims to provide insights into how to best serve young fathers in Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs.

Fostering Trust with Program Participants and Serving Young Fathers: Highlights from the Third FRAMING Research Technical Work Group on Responsible Fatherhood

Suggestions from previous research on how to measure child wellbeing in healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programs.

Measuring Child Well-Being in Evaluations of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs

Explore this interactive evidence and gaps map, or knowledge map, to learn more about the effects of parenting programs for incarcerated and re-entering fathers.

This white paper from the FRAMING Research report presents results from an analysis exploring factors correlated with workshop attendance. Specifically, it examines the length and frequency of workshop sessions. 

This brief explores how the principles of adult learning theory could be applied to HMRF programs.

Many healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood (HMRF) programs serve paired partners simultaneously, such as couples seeking to improve their relationship or coparents raising a child together. This brief describes challenges that evaluators face in correctly analyzing data from paired partners and offers some strategies researchers can consider for addressing them.

This brief describes a draft observation tool that was developed and piloted as part of a formative study to translate theory about co-regulation into practice in youth-serving Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) programs.

This brief summarizes key cost findings from the evaluation of Wise Guys in Iowa. It presents information on the resources required to deliver the program for one academic year and the average cost per student. The brief also summarizes how the average cost per student compares to other federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs.