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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the extent to which child welfare professionals (CWPs) who completed the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training (HRMET) delivered by Georgia Cooperative Extension, during July and August of 2012, implemented the HRMET skills/tools with their clients. Using qualitative methods, three focus groups were conducted with four CWPs in each group. Objectives included: to identify HRMET skills/tools that were or were not implemented by CWPs; to identify perceived benefits and barriers to implementation; and to identify recommendations from CWPs for implementing HRMET skills/tools. Twenty-three domains emerged including nine skills/tools which were implemented, the influence of the training experience, professional and personal benefits, beliefs and barriers which negatively impacted implementation, and three areas of recommendation. Knowles andragogy and Social Exchange Theory provided a basis for interpreting the findings.