Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants

This program works on strengthening families, with a range of different approaches. Under the HEART (Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive) opportunity, projects support activities to promote healthy marriages and/or relationships to ultimately strengthen families. Under the READY4Life (Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life) opportunity, projects provide comprehensive services that help youth build healthy relationship skills now and for the future (including dating, marriage, and co-parenting) while supporting positive socioemotional development and successful transitions to young adulthood. Under the FORGE (Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement) Fatherhood opportunity, projects support activities to promote responsible fatherhood under each of three broad categories of promoting or sustaining marriage, responsible parenting, and economic stability activities. For the Child Welfare Services to Tribal Families at Risk of Child Abuse or Neglect Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child Welfare (TTCW) opportunity, projects support Tribal governments in designing and implementing demonstration projects that strengthen collaboration between TANF and Child Welfare systems.