Discussion Guide for Community Leaders

Discussion Guide for Community Leaders

• Tell me about yourself.

• Current employment/role in the community

• Relationship to the Hispanic community

• Previous knowledge of healthy marriage or relationship education

• Tell me about your community.

• Characteristics of the town/city - history, demographics (including age, race, migration status, SES, ancestry, family formation patterns), industry, economy, assets and challenges

• Hispanics and their relationship to the community

• The political environment in relation to marriage education and to Hispanics

• The presence of organizations that support your constituents

• Your goals for your community

• Role of marriage education in meeting constituent needs

• Tell me about your involvement/interaction with the healthy marriage grant.

• Your relationship with the lead agency and other partner organizations

• Your involvement in the project (feedback, recruitment, community ambassador)

• How you describe healthy marriage (the concept and program) to other leaders and community members

• What aspects of the program you like and what aspects you’d like to change (target population, service delivery, dosage, location, messages)

• Tell me what you think about marriage education.

• What goals you have for healthy marriage programming – how you think it will change the participants, the organizations providing it, the community

• What marriage education won’t be able to do – what’s not a reasonable change to expect from participation in marriage education

• Where marriage education fits in the community – the extent to which it was needed, how it complements or competes with other services, the extent to which it was wanted

• What you think a successful marriage education program would look like and do

• Anything else you’d like to tell me or think I should know

Wave 2 Questions

• Changes in the community since we last met

• Extent to which program was implemented as planned

• Feedback from constituents

• Advice for other communities considering a healthy marriage initiative