Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative

The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative is a federally funded project designed to develop and implement culturally responsive marriage and relationship programs that support and strengthen Hispanic families. The impetus for the program was to address the dearth of information about how to provide supportive relationship programming to a very diverse cultural group. While all programs developed for the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative shared a central goal of strengthening Hispanic families, grantees were able to develop and implement programs that reflected their specific service populations. The project sought to address culturally specific needs that may vary based on a variety of issues. These variables, which are discussed in detail in this entry, include the spoken language, geographic region, and economic circumstances of the multifaceted and diverse ...