The potential benefits of integrating the Positive Youth Development framework into healthy marriage and relationship education (HMRE) program recruitment and retention, curriculum content and delivery, staff facilitation, and evaluation.

An overview of the foundational concepts of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), why CRE matters for HMRE programming and evaluation, how it can be applied in evaluations, and other evaluation approaches that complement a CRE approach. This brief also has a corresponding worksheet for HMRE evaluation teams to help them incorporate CRE into their evaluation.