“…Antle, Frey, Sar, Barbee, and van Zyl (2010) have noted that strengthening couples and families could serve as both a primary prevention strategy for foster and kinship care providers whose relationship might be taxed following a placement of a child in their home, and as a secondary prevention strategy for families already in the child welfare system by strengthening the couple relationship and thus minimizing the negative spillover effects of couple conflict on children. Research has shown that, in addition to client interest (Mooradian, Hock, Jackson, & Timm, 2011), child welfare professionals (CWPs) believe that RME is both relevant and appropriate for the work they perform (Sar, Antle, Bledsoe, Barbee & van Zyl, 2010;Schramm, Futris, Galovan, & Allen, 2013) and that training can facilitate positive shifts in attitudes that could facilitate the integration of RME into child welfare programming . As the field of child welfare expands its focus to preventive services and includes trainings on ''controversial topics'' such as RME, it is critical that evaluation models assess the effectiveness of such trainings.…”