Ideas for Hiring the Most Effective

ProSAAM stands for “Program for Strong African American Marriages.” It is funded by the John Templeton Foundation and is also partially supported by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). The study is designed to develop a culturally sensitive version of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP). At the University of Georgia’s Institute for Behavioral Research, we are testing this program in a sample of 500 married African American couples. We are also combining ProSAAM with direct parenting instruction in our Program for Strong African American Fathers (ProSAAF), a project that is funded entirely by ACF. That project wil l require that we recruit 460 African American couples with children. The ideas presented here are just that—ideas. We’re not comfortable call ing them “guidelines,” because we recognize that “one size doesn’t fit all.” With such a wide variety of groups currently implementAbsolutely! We believe that the instructors in a program setting that implement marriage and relationship education training are critical to its success. For this reason, we recommend: