Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) Program, United States, 2021-2025 (ICPSR 39722)
Version Date: Jul 20, 2026 View help for published
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Sarah Avellar, Mathematica Policy Research;
Grace Roemer, Mathematica Policy Research;
Charles Tilley, Mathematica Policy Research
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39722.v1
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The Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant programs have been funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and by the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) since 2006. The purpose of these programs is to promote the long-term well-being of children and families by strengthening the family unit and fostering healthy relationships and economic stability.
The Building Usage and Learning with Data in HMRF programs (BUILD HMRF) project supported the fourth cohort of HMRF grant recipients (2020-2025). OFA awarded 113 grants focused on marriage and relationship education and skills-building, responsible parenting, economic stability, and related activities depending on the type of grant awarded. Funded programs provided curriculum-based workshops and individual services to HM adult individuals and couples, HM youth individuals, and RF fathers and couples based on the type of grant awarded. RF fathers were either reentering or in the community.
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This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.
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- For additional information on HMRF programs, please visit the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) website.
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Information on data set organization and data management procedures can be found in the User Guide.
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The study is designed to enable researchers and data analysts to access and analyze the extensive data collected by the 2020 HMRF cohort.
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After an initial planning period, programming launched, and grants began collecting data midway through Grant Year 1. Final reports for most grants were due to ACF one month after the end of Grant Year 5. The analysis files included data for all 112 grant recipients that conducted HMRF activities during at least part of this time frame, with 110 grant recipients conducting activities during the full time frame.
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Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant recipients and program participants in the fourth HMRF grant cohort (2020-2025).
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The study includes variables about clients' characteristics, their reported experiences and attitudes at program entrance and exit, workshop programming, and individual services provided to clients. Demographic variables include sex, age, gender, and ethnicity.
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2026-07-20
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2026-07-20 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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