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Adapting Healthy Marriage Programs for Disadvantaged and Culturally Diverse Populations |
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Center for Law and Social Policy: Since 2002, more than 300 healthy marriage (HM) programs have been funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The first wave of competitive HM grants were funded using discretionary vehicles available in various ACF offices. The result is that marriage education is now being provided to large numbers of people across the U.S. from a diversity of economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. The advent of federal and state government funding and the subsequent rapid increase in the number of programs have resulted in substantial changes in participant demographics, curriculum content, and program design and infrastructure. Until recently, educators believed that the core concepts and components of marriage education were universally shared and hence that their programs could be effective across different racial and ethnic cultures. Some of these curricula are available "out of the box," while others are available only to participants in curriculum training.
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