| | NYS OTDA News&Featured Articles - SHM Project Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Being the first large-scale, multi-site, multi-year, rigorous test of marriage skills programs for low-income married couples, the SHM project is motivated by research that indicates that married adults and children raised by their married parents do better on a host of outcomes. |
 | | Because SHM deals with a relatively new type of social intervention, it will be particularly important to provide feedback to each site along the way, and to conduct implementation research that will identify best practices to benefit future program operators. |
 | | The SHM project also includes a process study to better understand how programs are run “on the ground.” The evaluation team will investigate whether marriage education is being delivered as intended, couples' experiences with the program and attitudes of program administrators and staff. |
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