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The following Office of Family Assistance grantees offer an array of programs for families and couples. This is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all healthy marriage programs in the US, and listing does not imply endorsement. If you do not see a program listed near you, check out your yellow pages or search the web for healthy marriage programs, classes, or workshops in your area. This list is not intended to represent that these are the only services available in your community, and our site will be constantly updating the list as programs contact us for inclusion.

Alabama

Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (ACHMI)
Auburn University
310 Samford Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to improve the quality of life for Alabama residents by raising public awareness of the importance of healthy, stable marriages for child, family and community well-being; promoting access to healthy marriage resources; training an ever-increasing number of community members and professionals in methods of best practices for marriage education and community building; and supporting 7 targeted community healthy marriage initiatives by providing programming for youth, non-married parents, premarital couples and married couples. Some aspects of this project will target the whole state of Alabama’s population broadly. Other aspects will target 5 rural counties (Etowah, Escambia, Chambers, Talladega, and Houston) and 2 larger counties (Morgan and Tuscaloosa) of rural and urban populations. The grantee is anticipating an average audience of 40 at their workshops which would result in 2400 participants – a total of 16,800 youth and adults per year across these 7 counties.

Assistance to Refugee Couples (ARC)
Boat People SOS, Inc.
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Vietnamese view family matters as private and do not discuss personal health, family violence, or marital distress even with parents, children or siblings, let alone professionals. BPSOS has adapted the PREP curriculum to Vietnamese culture, and translated it. Assistance to Refugee Couples (ARC) provides marriage enrichment and family wellness services in hopes that Vietnamese couples will become equipped and receive assistance to better manage their marriages and families in healthy ways. To learn more about our program, please visit: machsongmedia.com.

Family Connections in Alabama
Family Connections in Alabama, Montgomery AL
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP

Just the Facts…Straight Talk About Marriage (JTF)
The Hive Creative Group, Inc.
112 Adris Place
Dothan, AL 36305
This grant will provide an innovative project designed to strengthen existing marriages and prepare unmarried couples for successful healthy marriages. This includes healthy marriage education and enrichment activities, a public awareness/education campaign that promotes the benefits and elements of a healthy marriage, and a teen program that teaches core skills necessary for healthy marriages. The goals of the project are to increase the number of youth and adults who have the skills to form and sustain healthy marriages, strengthen and integrate community support systems for healthy marriage, and improve the public perception of the value of marriage and availability of services. Services are targeted to be provided to over 1000 individuals per year.

Alaska

Chugachmiut
Positive Relationship Pathways
Administration for Native Americans
1840 Bragaw Street, Suite 110
Anchorage, Alaska 99508-3463
907-562-4155
This is a three year project to implement healthy marriage skill-building workshop activities for Native Alaskan couples within the Chugachmiut region. It will increase the percentage of Native couples and individuals who have skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about healthy relationships, including skills that can help them form and sustain a healthy marriage. This project will also train teams of facilitators using the PREP curriculum which will be adjusted to be culturally sensitive to Native Alaskan culture.

Chugachmiut
Wise Fathers, Well Families
Administration for Native Americans
1840 Bragaw Street, Suite 110
Anchorage, Alaska 99508-3463
907-562-4155
This is a three year project to help couples become better parents and improve their family relationships through responsible father involvement and healthy marriage skill-building workshop activities.

Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium
Healthy Relationships Project
Administration for Native Americans
P.O. Box 357
Gakona, Alaska 99586
Ph. 907-822-5399
This is a three year project to develop and pilot a culturally appropriate, healthy relationships component for Mount Sanford's wellness program. This new program component will reaffirm traditional family values and raise awareness of the benefits of healthy relationships and marriage for children, families, and communities. This project will also provide healthy relationship skill-building activities for adults and abstinence education with risk elimination and healthy relationship training for youth.

Native Village of Afognak
Tamamta Tanqipet Tuniutapet "All of Us Are Tending Our Light"
Administration for Native Americans
115 Upper Mill Bay Rd., Suite 201
Kodiak, AK 99615
Phone: 907-486-6357
This is a five year project to educate youth and parents about making informed decisions regarding healthy relationships through culturally-appropriate pre-marital and family communication education. During summers, youth will attend camps on healthy relationships; throughout the year, youth and adults will participate in workshops and awareness events on healthy relationships and marriages.

Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak
Sun'aq Healthy Family Initiative
Administration for Native Americans
312 West Marine Way
Kodiak, AK 99615
Office: 907-486-4449
This is a three year project to develop a culturally consistent curriculum and counseling strategies for continued use within the Native community. Families and individuals will be provided with the tools and resources to empower them to identify, choose and maintain healthy relationships and lifestyles at all stages of life within a supportive setting where feedback will be provided from clinicians and Native elders.

American Samoa

Circle of Love Project
American Samoa Government
Pago Pago
Kathryn McCutchan-Tupua
ktupua@dhss.as
684-633-1190
The American Samoa Government plans to provide pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples and for couples or individuals interested in marriage as well as marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples (targeting couples becoming parents). The Within My Reach curriculum will be adapted, tested and refined for cultural competence for use with American Samoan couples. Three health educators and two project staff will be trained in the Within My Reach curriculum and 1000 couples interested in marriage and 400 married couples becoming parents will complete the program. The PREP curriculum will also be adapted, tested and refined for cultural competence to use with American Samoan married couples to serve up to 3400 married couples.

Arizona

ANASAZI: "The Making of a Marriage"
ANASAZI Foundation
1424 South Stapley Dr.
Mesa, Arizona 85204
800-678-3445
It is the mission of ANASAZI Foundation to prepare parents and children to turn their hearts to one another, begin anew, and walk in harmony in the wilderness of the world.

Fortified Marriages
P.O. Box 7385, Chandler, AZ 85246
866-263-5638
We are a Christian marriage ministry dedicated to building relationships. We desire to see couples build close growing relationships with God and each other. We believe that once a couple knows who they are, discover their purpose and mission in life and build foundational skills for marriage, they will better be able to meet the challenges of life as a team.

Healthy Marriage Demonstration for Married Low-Income Hispanic Couples
Creciendo Unidos
202 E. McDowell Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Creciendos Unidos/Growing Together’s Healthy Marriage Demonstration program will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Objectives of the program include helping couples improve communication skills, improve problem-solving skills and improve satisfaction within their marriage. The program will have three levels of marriage education services based on participant’s schedules and other factors (transportation and childcare) as well as couple’s events to encourage retention in the marriage education sessions.

Healthy Marriages/Strong Families Project
Arizona Youth Partnership
4239 West Ina Road, Suite 101
Tucson, AZ 85741
Targeting 200 rural Head Start Couples in Arizona, the Arizona Youth Partnership hopes to build healthy marriages through teaching PAIRS curriculum at weekend retreats, to nurture healthy marriages through Marriage Mentoring Networks that meet monthly for booster sessions and setting monthly relationship goals, and to sustain healthy marriages through additional skills workshops identified by participating couples. They will also hold regional kick-off events, year-end celebrations, and host an interactive web site that will provide additional marriage information and links to resources.

Hispanic Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project
National Association of Marriage Enhancement (NAME)
13422 N. Cave Creek, #3
Phoenix, AZ 85022

HIAS Refugee Family Enrichment Program
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement
This program helps strengthen marriages and family relationships within refugee communities by means of trainings on family communication skills and conflict resolution techniques. The curricula used are Active Communications and Active Money Personalities, which is culturally adapted to be used with ethnically diverse populations. Special classes on mentoring will utilize the "Marriage Mentoring - 12 Conversations" curricula developed by Dr. Ed. Grey.The program will be implemented by 12 local HIAS refugee resettlement affiliates in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL); Bergen County(NJ); San Diego (CA); Tucson (AZ); Cincinnati (OH); Pittsburgh (PA); Milwaukee (WI); Rockville (MD); Boston (MA); New York (NY) and in Columbus (OH).

Arkansas

Northwest Arkansas Healthy Marriage Initiative
John Brown University
Department of Finance and Administration
2000 W. University St
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
The mission of The Center for Relationship Enrichment is to help students, individual, couples, families , churches and organizations cultivate healthy relationships through Christ-centered consulting , education and enrichment at a local, regional, national and international level.

California

California Healthy Marriages Coalition
California Healthy Marriages Coalition
1045 Passiflora Ave.
Leucadia, CA 92024
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to birth, nurture, and support the development of a statewide interlinking network of community healthy marriage coalitions. The grantee will use the following curricula:

Youth: "Connections" and "Love U2"
Non-married pregnant women and expectant fathers: "Love’s Cradle" and "Bringing Baby Home"
Pre-marital education: "FOCCUS," "PREPARE/ENRICH," and "The RE Marriage Prep Program," and "How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk."
Marriage enrichment: "Relationship Enhancement (RE)," "Mastering the Magic of Love," "PAIRS," "10 Great Dates," "Active Relationships," and "World Class Marriage."
Divorce reduction programs: "Retrouvaille," and "The Third Option"

www.CaMarriage.com offers a statewide clearinghouse of Marriage Education and Relationship Skills classes.

The Cambodian Family
Office of Refugee Resettlement
We are part of an important collaborative, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to provide marriage education to refugee couples and other individuals in Orange County. We have found that the shock of a new culture can place great stress on families and relationships. We work with couples to help develop skills for strenghening communication. This program, called Healthy Habits for Happy Families, is inspired in large part from Stephen Covey's book, 7 Habits for Highly Effective People.

Coming From Your Heart – A Weekend Couples Workshop
The Couples Institute
445 Burgess Drive, Suite 150
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(877) 327-5915
This amazing weekend workshop teaches secrets of building and sustaining a flourishing relationship. Among other things, you will learn how to:

Successfully handle your differences and disagreements, actually growing closer from them;

Set goals and build the foundation for all future changes with your partner;
Negotiate strategies that build trust and respect;
Reduce stress and tension in your relationship; and,
Apply these valuable skills to other areas of your life.

Our unique format permits you to listen and learn, watch demonstrations, and then part from the group to practice your new skills with the help of a therapist in a more private setting.

The Contra Costa County Family Outreach Program Of California
Lao Family Community Development, Inc
Childrens' Bureau
California
This project represents a collaborative effort among the Contra County Asian Family Outreach program, the Asian Pacific Psychological Services (APPS, a nonprofit behavioral health services agency, serving low income Asian communities) and the Contra Costa County Children and Family Services (CFS). The program proposes to use two evidenced-based models of family services: the “Power of Two” marriage education program and wraparound case management. Asian families who are limited-English speakers, needing culturally specific marriage education services and are at risk of entering the child welfare system will be referred for this program The Outreach program will provide the marriage education services, while APPS will provide the wraparound case management services, with both receiving referrals from CFS. The grantee plans to serve no less than 100 families per year.

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
House of Prayer for All People Ministries
OCS-CSBG

Flourishing Families
Sacramento Healthy Marriage Project
918 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Sacramento Healthy Marriage Project will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. They will use a pilot program as a model to essentially reach out to 100-200 couples per year by provide 4-module classroom sessions of healthy marriage education classes to be held weekly by professional education instructors which will delivered to couples in a group setting.

Futuro Now Healthy Marriage Initiative
The East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU)
5400 East Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022
The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public Advertising in which they will collaborate with Hispanic Communications Network to develop a 5-year awareness campaign about the benefits of marriage that will reach over 100,000 families; will build relationship skills among high school students using the Love U2 program to 540 students annually; will provide pre-marital education using the Within My Reach (PREP) curriculum to 200 individuals annually; will provide marriage enrichment using the Family Wellness and Relationship Enhancement curricula to 1,225 married couples annually; and establish marriage mentoring for 600 couples per year.

Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant
The Dibble Fund for Marriage Education
728 Coventry Road
Kensington, CA 94707
The Dibble Fund plans to create a public advertising campaign on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health, and to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting. They will train 500 Family and Consumer Sciences high school teachers each year to implement peer education projects to reach 113,500 students with over 1.66 million hours of instruction over 5 years. They will increase the number of high school age youth that have access to "best practices" healthy relationship and marriage programs (including Love U2, Connections, and The Art of Loving Well curriculums) through schools, youth agencies, faith communities, and peer-to-peer education efforts in states with limited Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI) teen programming. They will influence the knowledge and attitudes of teens about healthy relationships, the "success sequence," and marriage through an innovative media campaign that reaches teens "where they are," by leveraging the power and reach of the entertainment media (TV shows and magazines that teens already flock to), the internet, and other new media (mobile phones, i-pods, and other new technology that delivers content in non-traditional ways).

Healthy Marriage Program
Catholic Charities of Orange County, Inc.
1800 E. McFadden Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Catholic Charities of Orange County, Inc. plans to implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income, unmarried couples expecting a child. They will use the "Caring for My Family" curriculum as a cultural model to essentially reach out to over 200 participants per year by providing 10-week classroom sessions of healthy marriage education classes to be held weekly along with ongoing support services.

Hendricks Institute, Inc and Foundation for Conscious Living
226 W. Ojai Ave.
Suite 101, PMB 505
Ojai, CA 93023
1-800-688-0772
We are an International Learning Center that teaches core skills for conscious living. Our work over the past three decades has been to assist people in opening to more creativity, love, and vitality -- through the power of conscious relationship and whole-person learning.

Keeping Love Alive
The AngerCoach™ — Dr. Fiore & Associates
381 S. Carole Lane
Orange, CA 92869
(714) 745-1393
Dr Fiore & Associates, LLC is a company with a mission to provide anger and stress management solutions for individuals, couples, companies, facilities, agencies, and EAPs. Dr Fiore is a certified Anger Management Provider by the National Anger Management Association. In addition to providing services directly to clients, his company, in partnership with Century Anger Management, provides Certification anger management training for mental health professionals, substance abuse professionals, law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, and pastoral professionals.

Life-Changing Couples Retreats
Janis E. McCann, Ph.D. & David R. McCann, Ph.D.
323 East Matilija Street #158
Ojai, California 93023
(805) 646-4455
The Center for Conscious Relationships offers several different workshops, specifically targeted toward Couples, Individuals and Parents, and available at our home base in the Ojai - Santa Barbara and Central California areas. We also offer workshops at other locations around Southern California, including the Los Angeles and San Diego areas and Northern California, including San Jose, Marin and Mendocino Counties.

LifePartners
LifePartners®
6770 Eagle Ridge Road
Penngrove, CA 94951-9728
800-DREAM-4-2
A world in which healthy, joyful relationships free people to contribute to the well-being of one another and of the Earth.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Marriage Enrichment Program
Cambodian Association of America
2390 Pacific Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: CAA expects to launch a public awareness campaign using ethnic radio, newspaper and television ads promoting, and educating the API and Hispanic communities about the importance of sustaining a healthy marital relationship and the skills necessary to maintain them. They also plan to strengthen marriages in the API and Hispanic communities by teaching communication, conflict resolution, financial management, parenting and other marriage relationship enhancement skills to low-income married couples using The Power of Two, Building Blocks of Success, and Active Relationship programs. They expect that their program will: 1) increase participant knowledge of resources available for marriage education and services, 2) improve couple communication skills, 3) provide training in managing anger and resolving marital conflict, and 4) increase understanding of marriage cultural norms.

Marriage PREP 101
417 Spruce St.
San Francisco, California, 94118, US
415-905-8830
We will help you focus on the strengths of your relationship, and learn positive communication, conflict resolution and intimacy enhancement skills. Marriage Prep 101 has been described as informative, proactive, practical and fun! Our Marriage Prep Class is open to couples who are seriously dating, engaged or newlywed.

Project Juntos
Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program
687 State Street
El Centro, CA 92243
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. They will use a pilot program as a model to essentially reach out to 100 couples per year by providing a minimum of 25 hours of weekly class sessions of healthy marriage education classes which will be delivered to couples in a group setting.

Radiant Relationships
Pittsburg Pre-School and Community Council
1760 Chester Drive
Pittsburg, CA 94565-3920
(925) 439-2061
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Pittsburg Pre-School and Community Council, Inc. has requested $527,664 to implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. They will use a pilot program as a model to essentially reach out to 375 couples per year by teaching a minimum of 14-hour (seven 2-hour planned workshops) of healthy marriage education classes to be held weekly by professional education instructors which will be delivered to the couples in a group setting.

Secrets of Married Men
Sarah Gorback Wiley
989 Market Street, Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 782-3213
Scott Haltzman, M.D., is the founder and editor of SecretsofMarriedMen com, HappilyMarriedWomen.com and 365Reasons.com and author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men and The Secrets of Happily Married Women.

South Los Angeles Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project
Personal Involvement Center, Inc.
8220 S. San Pedro Stret
Los Angeles, CA 90003
This grant will provide an innovative project designed to strengthen existing marriages and prepare unmarried couples for successful healthy marriages. This includes healthy marriage education and enrichment activities, a public awareness/education campaign that promotes the benefits and elements of a healthy marriage, and a teen program that teaches core skills necessary for healthy marriages. The goals of the project are to increase the number of youth and adults who have the skills to form and sustain healthy marriages, strengthen and integrate community support systems for healthy marriage, and improve the public perception of the value of marriage and availability of services. Services are targeted to be provided to over 1000 individuals per year.

Ultimate Relationships
1295 Prospect St, Ste 201
La Jolla, CA, 92037
1-800-537-0820
Their vision is to develop the field of Strategic Intervention integrating elements from a variety of social science, business and political perspectives, in order to form a unified field of strategic practice.

United American Indian Involvement
Develop and Implement Strengthening American Indian Families
Administration for Native Americans
California
This is a five year project to provide education in youth organizations and community centers on the value of healthy relationship skills including conflict resolution, communication, commitment, marriage education, marriage skills, parenting skills, and relationship skills.

Colorado

Building Healthy Marriages
Weld County Department of Social Service
915 10th Street
Greeley, CO 80631
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to launch a media campaign to raise the awareness of the benefits of healthy marriage to reach all residents of Weld County; will conduct marriage enrichment weekends for 300 couples and provide marriage education classes and booster sessions for 350 couples annually; will use marriage educators to develop relationship skill paths for couples who are facing divorce; and will conduct interactive seminars on building strong families that pair 210 married mentor couples with 210 young couples interested in marriage.

Colorado Coalition Of Adoptive Families
Colorado Coalition of Adoptive Families
Childrens' Bureau
The Colorado Coalition of Adoptive Families (COCAF), in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division, Dr. Howard Markman who is a national marriage strengthening educator and researcher, Dr. Richard Delaney, national specialist in special needs adoptions, and the Institute for Families at the University of Denver (IFDU), will develop a unique program focused on two Colorado regions. The North Central cluster is mainly suburban metropolitan and includes four counties, and the West-Southwest cluster is primarily mountainous rural communities consisting of four counties. Program leadership at each local county level will use a team decision-making model that includes an adoptive parent, an adoptions caseworker, a faith-based organization leader, and a marriage educator or adoption-competent therapist. The objective of the teams is to provide a community-centered, strength-based approach to the enhancement and development of post adoption services in their respective communities. A foundation for services in all communities will be use of the research-based Prevention and Relationship Enhancement (PREP) curriculum, which will be adapted for use with adoptive parents.

The Colorado Healthy Marriage Project
WAIT Training
10427 E. Dorado Pl.
Denver Tech Center
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public advertising campaign to reach approximately 150,000 people, particularly Hispanic and African American populations; will provide relationship education in high schools to 20,000 students and training to 150 teachers; will provide relationship education using the "WAIT Relationship and Parenting" program to 3 hospitals and 10 agencies so they can serve pregnant and parenting teens. (Will also use: "PREP" and "Love’s Cradle" to serve this population); will provide pre-marital education to a higher percentage of engaged couples using "PREP" and other curricula; will provide marriage enhancement training to 35 community-based organizations using "PREP" and other curricula who will then provide this training to married couples; and will provide training for 300 married couples to serve as mentors for 300 struggling couples.

Couple Communication I
Interpersonal Communication Programs, Inc. (ICP)
30772 Southview Dr., #200
Evergreen, CO 80439
800-328-5099
This award-winning program helps you understand yourself and connect with your partner better. You learn 11 skills and other processes to communicate effectively about day-to-day events and important issues.

Divorce Busting
The Divorce Busting® Center
P O Box 271
Boulder, Colorado 80306
800-664-2435
We specialize in helping people get their marriages back on track. Even if everyone is telling you to move on, don't be discouraged. We can help. Don't wait another minute to get the support you need. Speak to an experienced Divorce Busting® Coach who will help you solve your marriage problems now. Call us, we'll help you find your way.

Family Success in Adams County
Colorado State University
Family and Consumer Science Dept.
9755 Henderson Road
Brighton, CO 80601

Healthy Relationships
Peer Assistance Services, Inc.
2170 S. Parker Road, Suite 229
Denver, CO 80231
Peer Assistance Services provides relationship education and skills training to engaged or married couples, and individuals interested in marriage. They provide the Within My Reach, Within Our Reach, and Caring for My Family curricula to a minimum of 600 low income participants per year. They work with over 30 partnerships throughout the Denver Metro area. Agency partners include: substance abuse treatment centers, domestic violence programs, transitional housing programs, case-management agencies, faith-based organizations, family resource centers, schools, and workplace development centers.

The Institute For Families, University Of Denver (Colorado Seminary)
The Institute for Families, University of Denver (Colorado Seminary)
Childrens' Bureau
The Institute for Families of the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work will oversee an innovative collaboration involving three states (Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas.) The primary objectives are to develop a skills-based curriculum that is comprehensive and creative, applicable across states, and capable of integration into existing child welfare and social work curriculum. Training will be provided for child welfare services frontline workers, supervisors and administrators, as well as community and faith-based service providers. The collective curriculum will be comprised of two-day core training and twelve advanced workshops in special populations and practice issues of particular relevance.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement
The Family Enrichment program helps strengthen marriages and family relationships within refugee communities.At each site, culturally appropriate workshops based on the Power of Two curriculum will be held for refugee populations from a variety of countries. Workshops will focus on developing communication, shared decision-making, and conflict resolution skills, along with financial management and parenting skills.

Partner Up, Colorado’s Child Support Enforcement Program for Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood
Colorado Department of Human Resources, Division of Child Support Enforcement, Denver and other counties, CO
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Power of Two Free Resource Library
Therapy Help Inc
4500 E. 9th Ave
Suite 6600
Denver, CO 80220
Targeting non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers, Therapy Help will create web-based marriage and relationship games to deliver marriage skills. A library of free on-line marriage, relationship and related skills game episodes will be created and placed onto web sites (e.g., a church web site or magazine web site). They will create eight episodes the first year and over 40 episodes over the five-year grant period. A wide network of communities who use the library by putting the free game episodes on their web sites will be cultivated. Public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health will also be implemented.

PREP: The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program
PREP Inc
P.O. Box 4793
Greenwood Village CO 80155-4793
800-366-0166
PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) is one of the most comprehensive and well respected divorce-prevention/marriage enhancing programs in the world. PREP is a skills and principles-building curriculum designed to help partners say what they need to say, get to the heart of problems, and increase their connection with each other.

Relationship Matters: A Program for Couples Living with Multiple Sclerosis
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
900 S. Broadway
2nd Floor
Denver, CO 80209
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The grant funds will be used to develop a model for marriage and relationship education that can be used by other non-profit health organizations that serve the millions of individuals with chronic illnesses. The Society will work with the target population living with MS who are served by the centralized Information Resource Center.

Connecticut

Refugee Marriages Grow Healthy in Connecticut
Catholic Charities, Inc. – Archdiocese of Hartford
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Delaware

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
Delaware Ecumenical Council on Children and Families
OCS-CSBG

District of Columbia

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
Wedded Bliss Foundation
OCS-CSBG

Healthy Marriage Grant
Best Friends Foundation
5335 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC 20015
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Best Friends Foundation plans to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting as well as, implement marriage mentoring programs, which use married couples as role models and mentors in at-risk communities. 1,476 students will be served as to measurably increase the number of high school students who can articulate the benefits of marriage, measurably decrease the trends of unwed pregnancies and out-of-wedlock births, measurably increase the number of teenagers who see marriage as a viable life option, and measurably increase the number of teenagers who want to get married. Marriage… The Best Choice for the Best Future- Diamond Girls and Best Men Leadership curriculum will be used during 2.5 hour classes held on Saturdays for 471 Diamond Girls and 205 Best Men Leaders in the Washington, DC; Charlotte, NC; Newark, NJ; and Milwaukee, WI. in 43 high schools.

The Healthy Marriages-Strong Families Initiative Of Washington, DC
East Capitol Center for Change
Childrens' Bureau
Washington, D.C.
The Healthy Marriages – Strong Families Initiative is a collaborative project between East Capitol Center for Change (ECCC) and the East River Strengthening Collaborative, a community based child welfare agency that serves at risk African American families. This partnership will (a) provide a public education campaign on the benefits of marriage and healthy relationships; (b) host an annual “Celebrate Black Marriage Day” event; (3) institute a “Marriage Works” Mini-Grants Program; and (4) offer workshops and other programming based on the African American Family Life Education Program which provides marriage enrichment and parenting education for African American family leaders. The group will also adapt the strategies of the Marriage Savers Program and the FOCCUS premarital inventory to help unmarried parents to consider marriage when appropriate. The project plans to serve at least 50 couples per year.

Florida

Adventure In Intimacy
Schleifer & Associates
1210 Washington Ave., Suite 213
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-604-0010
Whatever stage your relationship is in, we offer couples workshops and intensive private counseling that will:

Help you and your partner re-establish real communication;
Transform your frustrations into vehicles for change;
Increase the zest and passion in your relationship;
Inspire you to experience the Miracle of Connection™
Grow your Relational Intelligence™ and help you reach Relational Maturity™

Children’s Home Society Of Florida
Children’s Home Society of Florida
Childrens' Bureau
Children’s Home Society of Florida will implement and evaluate a 12-session in-home Gottman Based Marriage Strengthening Program delivered to current adoptive families of a special needs child in District 2B. The families will be recruited from three socio-culturally diverse urban and rural counties. A quasi-experimental design will be used to determine program effectiveness.

Community Healthy Marriage Initiative
Live the Life Ministries, Inc.
P.O. Box 13831
Tallahassee, FL 32317
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to target and spark a "marriage renaissance" in "The Big Bend of Florida", which encompasses eight Florida counties with a collective population of approximately 414,942. In collaboration with a number of partner organizations, Live the Life Ministries, Inc. will implement the following allowable activities: launch a public marriage advertising campaign to reach all the residents of these counties, offer premarital education and skills training to 2100 individuals, marriage enhancement and divorce reduction programs to 6,400 individuals over 5 years and launch a mentoring program featuring relationship skills training.

Family Resources, Inc.
5180 62nd Ave. North
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public awareness campaign using PSAs, television, radio, internet, billboards, etc. to reach all residents of the Tampa Bay area; will assist 125 non-married expectant parents annually in forming healthy relationships using the PREP curriculum; will assist 350 individuals and couples considering marriage using the PREP program; will provide opportunities for 340 married couples annually to reinforce existing marriage skills and acquire new skills; and will also hold annual Healthy Relationships Conferences for 150 attendees annually to get the marriage message out to a larger audience; and will assist 410 divorcing or fragile participants in a divorce reduction program.

Fountain of Life Internnational Ministries Healthy Marriage for Low-Income Program
Fountain of Life International Ministries, Inc.
3541 SW 144th Ave
Miramar, FL 33027
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Fountain of Life International Ministries Healthy Marriage for Low-Income Program plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for low-income married couples. Some of the program’s objectives are to improve couples’ mental health, reduce stressors that impede marriage and provide a support system for participating couples that focuses on marriage. Marriage enrichment weekends and a marriage mentoring program are some of the activities that will be used to obtain the program’s objectives and goals.

Healthy Families Healthy Children
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Sarasota-Manatee
2688 Fruitville Rd
Sarasota, FL 34237
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Sarasota-Manatee, Inc. will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. According to the organization, they will use a pilot program as a model to essentially reach out to 288 couples per year by teaching selecting the Loving Couples-Loving Children Program, which uses a multi-media approach specifically developed to engage low-income couples. Furthermore, the curriculum teaches marriages education skills, financial management, conflict resolution skills, and parenting.

Healthy Marriage Discretionary Grants
Florida State University
Family Institute
2420 Sandels Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1491
The funds will be used to add a skills-based marriage education program (adapted from PREP- Within My Reach) to a university wide course that will be offered over 14 weeks. They expect to provide marriage education to 10,500 participants over five years, train 42 marriage education providers, and evaluate the effects of the curriculum. The program will strengthen and support healthy marriages through marriage education by increasing the percentage of young adults who have the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about healthy relationships. This marriage education program for college students will be empirically tested and can be disseminated state-wide and nationally.

Jacksonville Network for Strengthening Families – Healthy Marriage Initiative
Florida Department of Revenue, Jacksonville, FL
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

PAIRS Relationship Skills for Strong South Florida Families
PAIRS Foundation, Inc.
19125 Stonebrook Street
Weston, FL 33332
The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public advertising campaign using the internet, producing and posting brochures and posters, information booths at events, etc. to reach all residents of the tri-county region; will provide marriage education to non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers using audio, video and classes; will provide pre-marital education to 500 couples annually using the PAIRS curriculum; will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training to 525 couples annually using the PAIRS curriculum in local community and faith-based partnerships; will recruit married couples to be role models and mentors for struggling married couples; and will provide education in 10 high schools annually using the PAIRS for PEERS curriculum.

Project S.O.S. Strengthens Relationship
Project S.O.S., Inc.
6850 Belfort Oaks Place
Jacksonville, FL 32216
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Project S.O.S. plans to implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. According to the organization, they proposed a 3-tiered approach: (1) Train a minimum of 100 unwed, low-income, unmarried, pregnant/new parents through educational classes held weekly at three crisis pregnancy centers. (2) Provide one-on-one marriage mentoring for unwed, low-income, expectant/new parents. (3) Create a mass media campaign using radio and television to reach over 500,000 people about the benefits of marriage and the components of a healthy relationship.

ReCapturing the Vision
ReCapturing the Vision International, Inc.
9950 Hibiscus Street
Miami, FL 33157
RTV will provide education in high schools for 520 students on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting as well as, marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. It will increase the percentage of youth and young adults who are armed and fortified with the necessary skills and knowledge that enable them to make informed decisions about healthy relationships. The Vessels of Honor and Capturing the Vision (state approved curriculum) will be utilized along with field trips, speakers, and bi-weekly visits by married couples. The program is designed to be 18 weeks meeting daily for one-hour and totaling 90 sessions.

Strong Families - Healthy Marriage Initiative
Trinity Church, Inc.
17801 NW Second Street
Miami, FL 33169
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Trinity Church plans to provide education in high schools centered around the knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to benefits of marriage; balanced communication in healthy marriage; characteristics of abusive relationships; and the importance of developing sound financial habits before getting married and having children. They will deliver, Keys to a Healthy Marriage, community presentations to 1400 high school youth each year in South Florida. The curriculum will be provided at Trinity Church, Trinity Family Peacemakers Center, and other faith-based sites. In addition OIC-BC Abstinence Education sites and other collaborating schools and community agencies will be served. Trinity Church will also provide parental support programs for 200 parents of high school youth enrolled in the project and launch a Healthy Marriage Campaign with a kick-off event and subsequent advertising.

Together Project
University of Central Florida College of Education
P.O. Box 161250
Orlando, FL 32816-1250
The Together Project will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples who have children. The primary objectives of the Together Project are to provide marriage education and family support services to low-income couples and to evaluate their impact on marital quality, marital stability, and child well-being. The Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills (PAIRS) marriage education curriculum will be used in four-month segments for participating groups and the program will follow up with booster sessions for the couples.

Georgia

FRAME-WORKS (Family Relationships Anchored in Marriage Education-Works)
Bethany Christian Services, Inc.
6645 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30328
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Bethany Christian Services, Inc. plans to provide Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use a pilot program called "FRAME-WORKS" as a model to essentially reach out to 1100 couples over a five year period by teaching the "Love’s Cradle/Relationship Enhancement" curriculum. Furthermore, they will provide individualized direct services to strengthen the capacity of unwed parents to apply relationship enhancement skills to their lives and the needs of their children.

Georgia Healthy Marriage Initiative: The Georgia Family Council
Georgia Department of Human Resources, Various Cities, GA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Healthy Marriage Discretionary Grants
Rockdale Medical Center
1412 Milstead Avenue
Conyers, GA 30012
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Rockdale Medical Center (RMC) will implement the Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education (MATURE) project. MATURE integrates educational strategies that support healthy marriages through the provision of 15 lessons. It will serve 2000 9th through 12th grade students in the tri-county area of DeKalb, Newton, and Rockdale Counties of Georgia, utilizing the "Pairs for Peers and Connections: Relationships and Marriage" curricula. In addition to marriage appreciation, lessons will address healthy male/female relationships and life-skills information such as dating violence prevention, domestic violence prevention, and budgeting. Activities proposed to accomplish objectives will be achieved through a dual approach (school site and community based). Activities will include a marriage appreciation awareness dinner, an essay competition for students on a marriage related topic, and marriage trading cards with pictures of couples who have been married 25 plus years and their marriage stories and tips for success.

Strengthening Marriage and Marriage Prospects
Morehouse College
830 Westview Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Morehouse College plans to use grant funds for the following purposes: 1) to assist couples experience an increase in knowledge of the benefits of marriage and strategies for healthy marriages, 2) assist participants in managing conflict, 3) teach participants in the use of the PAIRS Curriculum, 4) teach participants financial planning strategies, 5) assist unemployed and underemployed participants in seeking employment, 6) increase marriage rate of unmarried couples by 25%, and 7) conduct marriage education discussion groups. Approximately 150 clients, or 75 married and unmarried couples, will be provided services per year as measured by intake data.

The Connections Program
Future Foundation, Inc.
1892 Washington Road
East Point, GA 30344
Future Foundation plans to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting. They will serve 400 youth through 20 hours of Connections curriculum, plus four hours of Love U2 curriculum in booster sessions.

Relationship Enhancement For Adoptive Parents (REAP)
Bethany Christian Services of Georgia
Childrens' Bureau
Bethany Christian Services of Georgia will provide this program to adoptive couples using an adapted curriculum from Relationship Enhancement (RE) that specifically addresses concerns of this population. Bethany has established collaborative working relationships with the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement, as well as the Georgia Department of Family and Children’s Services, Georgia Center for Adoption Resources, and One Church One Child. The overarching goal is to enhance positive adoption outcomes and build healthy adoptive families by strengthening the marriage relationships of couples who adopt older, special needs children. Classes will be provided at retreat and workshop settings.

Strengthening Refugee Marriages in Metropolitan Atlanta, GA
Jewish Family & Career Services, Inc.
Office of Refugee Resettlement
This program helps to strengthen marriages and family relationships within refugee communities through a network of refugee-serving agencies in the Atlanta area. Jewish Family and Career Services provides healthy marriage training, technical assistance and pass through funding to eight refugee-serving agencies: Catholic Social Services, the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. International Rescue Committee, Just Cause, the Persian Community Center, Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta, the Russian American Federation, and Women Watch Afrika, Inc. Each agency provides customized marriage and family strengthening workshops to refugee couples within the specific ethnic communities they each serve. The program also trains refugee couples to act as mentors in their ethnic communities.

Hawaii

Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers
Ho’ohiki Pilina Project – To Maintain Commitment
Administration for Native Americans
3097 Kalihi Street
Honolulu, HI 96819
Office Phone: 808-843-2502
This is a five year project to provide healthy marriage workshops utilizing the Loving Couples, Loving Children curriculum to 400 couples on the islands of Maui and Oahu. The project will develop a public awareness campaign on Healthy Marriages.

Idaho

Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fatherhood
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
Nampa, ID
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver
This project provides marriage education with "Family Wellness" and PREPARE ENRICH and other curricula to individuals and couples who have children or who are expecting children, in order to improve child support outcomes such as paternity establishment, child support order establishment, and child support payment. The project recruits individuals and couples through the child support, TANF and Food Stamp offices, community, faith- based groups, special events and hospitals. Project Period: June 7, 2003 to September 30, 2008.

Illinois

Adoptive Families Together
Children's Home + Aid
910 Second Avenue
Rockford, IL
(815) 962-1043
The Adoptive Families Together Program provides services to couples who have adopted, taken guardianship or are working towards adoption or guardianship of foster children. In an effort to keep the relationship between parents strong and therefore provide a healthier and more stable environment for children, the Adoptive Families Together Program offers couples an opportunity to focus on each other during the course of a weekend retreat. The goal of the retreat is to share skills for better communication, problem solving and serves as a reminder to keep fun alive in their marriage. There is no cost to eligible couples. The program is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families.

Allan Rohlfs: Chicago
3743 N. Drake
Chicago, IL 60618
773-478-6264
My business is to assist people and also organizations in resolving personal or organizational difficulties. I help individuals, couples, and families change and become more fully functioning people who relate to others with greater satisfaction and harmony. This change may include deep seated long lived personal problems or dissatisfaction with personal relationships or with situations at work. I assist organizations to realize maximum effort toward meeting their organizational mission.

Chicago: Workshops for Couples
250 Park Ave.
Wheeling, Illinois 60090
847-537-1404
If you and your partner want to experience more loving in your life together, or even if you're madly in love but afraid to commit because you've seen the failure of so many other relationships, you are not alone. Hundreds of couples have come to us over the years with wants and fears such as these. Creating a loving, enduring, and committed partnership/marriage will be the most exciting, though challenging, journey you face in your life. It is our passion and commitment to help couples restore open communication and experience a renewal of affection in their relationship lives. It would be our privilege to walk that path with you.

A Child Support Demonstration Project to Help Families Build and Maintain Healthy Family Relationships and Marriage
Illinois Department of Public Aid, Chicago, IL
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Family Bridges - Chicagoland Healthy Marriage Institute
Meier Clinics Foundation
2100 Manchester Road
Suite 1510
Wheaton, IL 60187
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to do two major media relations efforts to reach a minimum of 21% of the selected county populations; to reach a minimum of 50% of pre-marital couples participating in education and marriage skills training and/or divorce reduction programs; to reach a minimum of 25% of the participants in the pre-marital, marriage, or divorce reduction programs to demonstrate an improvement of communication and problem-solving skills; and to reach a minimum of 65% of high school students to complete the program and show improvement in knowledge of communication skills, recognizing destructive personal patterns, and understanding personal finance and budgeting skills.

Family Smart
SGA Youth & Family Services
11 E. Adams
Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60603
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The SGA Youth & Family Services plans to implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. According to the organization, they will use a curriculum called the "Prevention and Relationship Enhancement" program as a model to essentially reach out to 180 couples per year by providing 16-week of home-based class sessions of healthy marriage education classes to be held along with ongoing support social services.

Family Tree
SGA Youth & Family Services
11 E. Adams
Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60603
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Family Start plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Some of the objectives of the Family Start project are for 75% of all participants to demonstrate both an increased knowledge of healthy marriage and the application of skills taught. The main activity the project plans to implement are courses using the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) marriage curriculum. The PREP workshops will be taught in 12-week sessions with optional follow-up peer support groups and home-based marriage coaching sessions. Some of the projected outcomes are for couples to show an increased level of marital satisfaction and an increased level of satisfaction in parent-child relationships.

Growthtrac
Growthtrac Ministries
2413 W. Algonquin Road #213
Algonquin, Illinois 60102-9402
877-458-6266
As God works through us, to inform and equip married men and women, and those preparing for marriage, with products, content and services revealing the transforming power of the Gospel.

The Marriage First Project of Illinois
Rockford MELD
Childrens' Bureau
716 N. Church St.
Rockford, IL 61103
phone: 815-965-8336
The goal of this project is to provide African American and Hispanic unmarried cohabiting couples with a variety of marriage enhancing services to increase the number of marriages before conception, to increase the well-being of children, and to increase public knowledge about the benefits of marriage. The project will also serve low-income, married couples. A multi-faceted approach will be used based on the work of Alan Hawkins, PhD from BYU and his colleagues titled, “A Comprehensive Framework for Marriage Education,” which uses the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) for full- and half-day marriage education seminars. There will be three tiers of service delivery: public awareness campaigns and public service announcements; higher intensity, “Integrated Marriage Education” (which includes services to adolescents in need of preventative services) serving 350 couples per year; and intensive case management (which includes marriage-based information and materials), serving 45 families per year.

Indiana

The African American Marriage Enrichment Program
Lorraine C. Blackman, Ph.D., Director
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Indiana University
902 W. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46262
(317) 274-6713
The African American Family Life Education Institute, LLC (AAFLE) is comprised of several primary components each designed to fulfill an educational void. Please select the component on the next screen about which you are most interested in obtaining information.

Enriching Marriages in Indiana Project (EMIP)
Cornerstone of Hope Church, Inc.
P O Box 21006
849 S. Belmont
Indianpolis, IN 46221
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Enriching Marriages in Indiana Project plans to serve couples through marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs. Some of the activities planned for Cornerstone of Hope Church are a marriage mentoring program for low-income couples, quarterly workshops to address marital barriers, an annual Valentine’s Day Dinner Dance and an annual marriage retreat. Some of the outcomes the organization would like to see are a 25% increase in couples served each year, 25 mentors added to the marriage mentoring program each year and 100% of couples learning ways to resolve conflict.

Fathers and Families Resource/Research Center, Inc
Fathers and Families Resource/Research Center, Inc
2835 North Illinois Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Center plans to provide Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers (#3). They will use a curriculum program called the "It Take Two!" as a model to essentially reach out to 100 couples per year by providing at least 20 hours of instruction using the "Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP)" to teach healthy marriage concepts, principles, and skills. They will also strive to have at least 36 enrolled individuals prepare for the GED, and have 60 participates receive pre-employment training or job placement and retention assistance through the program.

Indiana Healthy Marriage Coalition
Madison County Community Healthy Centers, Incorporated
1547 Ohio Ave
P.O. Box 349
Anderson, IN 46015
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The grant funds will be used to develop, implement and adopt a uniform statewide comprehensive marriage education program for engaged couples and persons interested in marriage that will help increase their awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to form, build and sustain healthy marriages and families. Also, the Centers, will deliver increased healthy marriage services to 850 high need populations through collaborative members trained in evidence based healthy marriage programs.

Lake County Marriage Coalition
Abstinence for Singles, Inc.
101 N. Main street
Crown Point, IN 46307
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public advertising campaign to reach all residents in this geographic location; will provide youth-oriented relationship education for 500 11th graders using the "Aspire" and "Project Reality" curricula annually and for 500 12th graders using the "Juggling Act" curriculum (which promotes the importance of economic self-sufficiency) annually; will provide pre-marital and marriage education to approximately 2000 individuals per year using the PREPARE/ENRICH curriculum (and other curricula as appropriate); and establish marriage mentoring for 400 couples annually.

South Western Indiana Healthy Marriage Initiative
Community Marriage Builders, Incorporated
1229 Belle Meade Ave
Evansville, IN 47714
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Community Marriage Builders, Incorporated and partners will use the grant funds to implement the following three strategic goals: 1). increase protective and reduce risk factors related to building healthy marriages for engaged couples or persons interested in marriage; 2). increase protective and reduce risk factors related to sustaining and strengthening healthy marriages for married couples; and 3). Increase the number of couples in South Western Indiana who are equipped with the skills and knowledge to effectively prepare for and maintain healthy, lifetime marriages.

Iowa

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriage
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program
OCS-CSBG
HACAP Corporate Office
P.O. Box 490
1515 Hawkeye Drive
Hiawatha, IA 52233
Ph: 319-393-7811
Poverty is a complex human condition, which in many respects lingers outside traditional market economics. Poverty creates barriers for human progress, restricting individual opportunity. Its impacts need to be addressed locally for maximized results. Hawkeye Area Community Action Program, Inc. (HACAP) is one of eighteen Iowa community action agencies (CAAs), providing flexible and adaptive programs and services that work toward removing those barriers to self-sufficiency while maintaining a person's dignity. HACAP provides service in six counties (Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn and Washington). In 2005 the U.S. Census estimated that approximately 400,000 people live in 152,000 households in our service area with 12% of families living below the federally defined poverty threshold and 31% living in low-income conditions.

Iowa Healthy Marriage Initiative Demonstration Project
Marriage Matters
Iowa Family Policy Center
1100 N. Hickory Blvd.
Suite 107
Des Moines, IA 50327
Marriage Matters exists to strengthen marriages, and we do that in several ways.
First, we encourage and equip couples who are in a healthy marriage to mentor engaged or at-risk couples. So many marriages have been through difficult times, and they are the stronger for it! Marriage Matters helps less experienced or hurting couples by matching them with "seasoned" couples for Marriage Mentoring. Secondly, we provide Marriage Mentoring for those couples who are looking to improve their relationship. It is our experience that when engaged or at-risk couples are mentored by a more experienced couple, amazing things happen in their marriage. Their healthy relationship skills grow significantly during mentoring as they learn to address their relationship issues in more effective ways. Whether engaged or on the brink of divorce, Marriage Matters is dedicated to providing a unique opportunity for couples to grow and succeed in marriage. Third, Marriage Matters conducts some awesome marriage enrichment seminars! We have a whole host of topics that are guaranteed to help your marriage in a fun, engaging way. Finally, Marriage Matters has collected a multitude of resources for your exploration and education. Check out the great articles and links on our site! It is my hope that this information will help you as you follow your desire to have a healthy, happy marriage.

Kansas

Marriage for Keeps
Catholic Charities of Wichita, Inc.
437 N. Topeka
Wichita, KS 67202
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Catholic Charities, Inc. plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to 500 married couples in the programs’ first year. The goal of the Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project is to strengthen existing marriages of low-income couples and their families. Some of the objectives are to improve communication between couples, improve conflict resolution skills and improve marital satisfaction among participants. Marriage enhancement and enrichment activities include workshops on effective communication with ones spouse, relationship commitment and emotional intelligence as supplements to the healthy marriage curriculum.

Kentucky

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
Kentucky Association for Community Action, Inc.
OCS-CSBG

Foothills/Gateway Healthy Marriage Demonstration Program
Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc
309 Spangler Drive
Richmond, KY 40475
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: KRFDC will use the program grant funds to provide financial management and conflict resolution services via three venues: 1). Two regional Financial Counseling Resource Centers; 2). Two mobile counseling centers; and 3). Two traveling financial counselors who will provide services at community sites in rural towns. KRFDC will serve a total of 156 distressed couples or 312 participants annually.

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children, Lexington, KY
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Jefferson County Healthy Marriage Initiative
COPES, Inc.
845 Barret Avenue
Louisville, KY 40204
The Jefferson County Healthy Marriage Initiative will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. A feature that makes this program stand out amongst others is that the specific target is ex-offenders and their spouses as their marriages will need more attention than others. Some of the objectives of the program are to increase marital stability of ex-offenders and to increase local capacity to implement evidence-based family interventions with low-income ex-offenders and their families. Some of the expected outcomes are for 80% of participants to both increase their marital satisfaction and increase their knowledge and use of conflict resolution skills. The main activity of the program will be to teach the CLFC curriculum to 100 adults on an annual basis.

Mastering the Mysteries of Love
IDEALS of Kentucky
813 Hillwood Avenue
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
(502) 227-0055
IDEALS of Kentucky is a division of IDEALS, Inc, founded on the work of Bernard and Louise Guerney who sought to “give psychology away” by teaching interpersonal skills. Its mission is to “teach people methods of communicating with others, of dealing with emotions, and of solving problems.” Because we want to make skills available to everyone, we are creative in finding ways to make our training and therapy affordable to everyone, including sliding fee scales, groups, shared training, and use of contracts, scholarships, and grants.

The MindSpa: Recapturing Relationships
The Mind Spa
233 East Fourth Street
Newport, KY 41071
859-261-9000
The MindSpa offers Educational Seminars and Custom Counseling Appointment services. Our staff is professional and unbiased in understanding your situation. Your friends and family can only help you so long before you need a different and professional perspective.

Promoting Healthy Relationships for At-Risk Adults and Youth
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
Kent School- Oppenheimer Hall
Louisville, KY 40292

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

University Of Louisville Research Foundation, INC.
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
Childrens' Bureau
The University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. project will develop a competency-based training curriculum specific to child welfare, and through this training enhance the state child welfare organization's capacity to provide healthy marriage and family formation services. The curriculum will be developed in partnership with faith-based organizations, the child welfare agency, and other community representatives. Training will be provided for child welfare teams (supervisors and workers), managers, and representatives of faith-based organizations.

Louisiana

Marriages That Matter
South Baton Rouge Christian Children’s Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP
3180 Convention St.
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Ph: 225-343-9998
Key Foundations(KF) is a grassroots organization and an extended ministry of the South Baton Rouge Church of Christ. The South Baton Rouge Church of Christ is a nonprofit organization established in the Baton Rouge Community for 29 years. KF's mission is to break destructive cycles by educating children, enriching families, and empowering communities using Christian principles through partnerships with community organizations. Without self motivation or positive intervention it is hard to break destructive cycles. Intervention can come from a personal decision or from outside help. In many cases, information and training can encourage and guide us in our efforts to make the necessary steps to transition and break destructive cycles.

The Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Community Demonstration Initiative
Louisiana Department of Social Services, New Orleans, LA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver
627 N. Fourth St.
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Ph: 225-342-0286

Maine

Healthy Relationships Initiative
Character Counts in Maine
1321 Washington Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: CCM plans to use funds for a public advertising campaign and to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills, and budgeting. Using the following curriculums: WAIT Training,™ CCM, and Mvelopes,™ Character Counts expects to impact teen awareness of the value of healthy marriage, increase teen knowledge about the skills and behaviors that will improve their chances of having a stable and healthy marriage, modify behavior of high school adolescents in the areas of communication and conflict resolution to create positive behavior change and lead teens to the educational and skill-building relationship resources available on their web site.

Maryland

Basic Training for Black Couples and Singles
Black Marriage Publications
14425 Gunstock Court
Silver Spring, MD 20906
301-613-1316
Black Marriage Publications is the brain child of Dr. Rozario Slack and Nisa Muhammad. Both have spent a considerable amount of time working with Black people across the country who asked for marriage education materials that were relevant to their experience. Thus Basic Training for Couples was born. This is their first effort and promises to be the first of many. Dr. Slack is Director of Urban Initiatives at First Things First in Chattanooga, TN. Ms. Muhammad is the founder of Wedded Bliss Foundation, a national initiative to promote marriage in the Black community which sponsors Black Marriage Day.

Baltimore Healthy Marriage Project
Maryland Department of Human Resources, Baltimore, MD
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Demonstration Grant

Cecil County Healthy Marriage Initiative
Cecil County Government
107 North Street
Elkton, MD 21921
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Outreach for the project will be targeted to persons ages 13-25; of the 97,796 person population in the county, 16,244 are in this age range. Planned activities include: a media campaign, a marriage summit, marriage skills training, enrichment weekends, divorce reduction sessions, mentoring and celebrations of marriages.

Compassion Workshops: Anger & Violence Regulation
CompassionPower
20139 Laurel Hill Way
Germantown, Maryland 20874
The first of the CompassionPower programs to reduce anger, violence, and resentment began in 1988, to treat violent and angry persons convicted of abuse in the home. Using a new technology of emotional transformation, Dr. Steven Stosny demonstrated success in greatly improving the personal and community behavior of court-ordered offenders. Emotional transformation skill allows subjects to replace focus on injury, which stimulates revenge motives, with instant focus on healing and improving. The various programs for anger, violence, and resentment teach emotional transformation like an exercise that leads to habituation. The result is a much stronger individual who can hold onto the empowered sense of self that comes from relating compassionately to others. CompassionPower programs, translated into several languages, promote emotional intelligence and self-empowerment throughout the world.

CoupleBiz
9005 Chevrolet Dr, Suite D, Ellicott City, Md 20143
410-465-5967
As the only husband-wife psychologist team consulting to business couples, the Drs. Robison are dynamic presenters who offer practical, research-driven, and concrete solutions to the special challenges of couples who are partners in both work and love. Phil and Susan provide individual consultations, talks/seminars, and learning resources such as tapes, articles, manuals and a website. Their seminars and consultations combine their research on Extraordinary Marriages with humorous examples and practical advice to show couples how to work better together. Through practical accountability tools from their CoupleBiz Life Management System such as the Marital Sit-down and the Task Tracking System, clients learn to manage conflict and to clarify role expectations.

Institute for Family Education
Institute for Family Education
304 East Pennsylvania Ave.
2nd Floor
Towson, MD 21286
410-825-2332
The Institute for Family Education was founded in 2002 and has been offering research-based workshops, classes, and programs focused on the issues parents face at home and related issues teachers face at school in regard to child development. IFE is dedicated to helping parents and educators work together and focus on critical success outcomes for their children such as academic achievement, social competence and physical health. IFE is dedicated to reaching as many parents and educators as possible with our classes, thereby nurturing success in early childhood and for life.

Marriage Education and Servant Leadership Development Program (MESLD)
Northwood-Appold United Methodist Church
4499 Loch Raven Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21218
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Northwood-Appold United Methodist Church plans to provide public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health as well as provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples. They will support married couples in their quest to have strong marriages resulting in healthier families and community through MESLD training (formerly named Marriage Education Leadership Development- MELD), public relations, and special activities including a marriage rededication ceremony and a marriage community fair. The public relations campaign will center around the theme of "Marriage Works." It is expected that 100 married couples will be served the first-year.

Marriage Savers and Community Marriage Policies
Marriage Savers, Inc.
9311 Harrington Dr.
Potomac, MD 20854
(301) 469-5873
Marriage Savers is a Proven Way to Increase the Success of Marriage, Reduce Divorce Rates, and Provide a Better Environment for Children to Thrive.

Relationship Enhancement (RE) Programs
4400 East-West Hwy., Suite 28
Bethesda, MD 20814-4501
1-800-4-FAMILIES
The mission of NIRE is: To contribute to the advancement of honesty, compassion, and understanding in relationships by developing, teaching, and disseminating relationship enhancement skills for the benefit of the individual, the family, the community, and the workplace.

The "Y" Workshop by XY Outlook, Inc
XY Outlook, Inc.
14 Timber Run Court
Baltimore, MD 21136
(443) 956-4292
Marriage and family are the most important relationships in our lives. Problems, stresses and strains in these relationships are as natural to life as breathing. Often, it takes guidance to heal or perfect these relationships, or to prevent issues before they occur. Creating functional, long-term, happy relationships are possible. There are immediate techniques that can create change today.

Massachusetts

Being Together: Couples Retreats in beautiful settings
86 Washington Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140
617-661-7890
Our workshops, courses, and retreats for couples are all entitled, Being Together, because they offer an opportunity to enter deeply into this experience of being present with each other. This experience enables us to reconnect, to open our hearts, and to transform whatever hurts, disappointments, resentments and fears we have accumulated into a deeper, more passionate, and lasting connection. This is how love and relationships heal.

Building Healthy Marriages and Family Relationships
Massachusetts Department of Revenue, Boston, MA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Family Service Healthy Marriage Program
Family Service, Inc.
430 North Canal Street
Lawrence, MA 01840

Loveworks: skills for the journey of committed partnership
366 River Road, Deerfield, MA 01342
(413) 665-2971
LoveWorks workshops teach you the key relationship-building skills.You will learn how to manage conflict and avoid pitfalls. You will learn how to create a shared vision and how to work together as partners pursuing that vision. You will learn to laugh, cry, and grow together in peace, love, and harmony.

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Relational Life Institute
754 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA 02476
877-REAL-414
REAL Relational Solutions (RRS) teaches people how to make their relationships work. RRS leverages the work of best-selling author and renowned therapist Terry Real to advance the concept of Relational Life™ in order to help people address relational and psychological health in three.

Michigan

Celebrate!
Celebrate! Ministries
P.O. Box 93
119 West Superior Street, Suite 101
Alma, MI 48801
(800) 669-4122
After working for 15 years in Youth For Christ, and seeing the great need to strengthen marriages and families, Jay and Laura founded Celebrate! Ministries in 1995. That year Jay began an itinerant speaking ministry to youth and adults alike and together. Jay and Laura launched their first Celebrate Your Marriage Conference®. 100 couples came to that first conference and since then, Celebrate Your Marriage has touched literally thousands of couples across the nation.

Encouraging Family Foundations (EFF) Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project
Child and Family Resource Council
118 Commerce Ave SW Ste 220
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
The Council plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use the "Caring for My Family" curriculum as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 2,748 clients over a five (5) year period. The curriculum will be taught in a classroom-style educational model to enhance learning and support participation. The participants will attend one four-hour session a week for a six-week series. The classes will be available in English and Spanish, and are to be held a four provider sites, located in strategic locations.

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians
GTB Healthy Relationship Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to provide healthy marriage and relationship education workshops, retreats, and sessions to 370 youth and adults. Staff will be trained to present workshops on PAIRS Jumpstart, PAIRS - Passage to Intimacy, PEERS, PAIRS - Passion Weekend, PAIRS - If You Really Loved Me, PAIRS - Relationship Roadmap and PAIRS - Relationship Mastery.

Healthy Marriages and Healthy Relationships Grand Rapids
P.O. Box 165
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
616-281-6451
Healthy Marriages and Healthy Relationships Grand Rapids is a collaborative of faith-based community organizations who empower parents and expectant parents, adults and teens, by teaching relationship skills. The goal is to strengthen marriages and relationships in the greater Grand Rapids area.

Marriage Builders
12568 Ethan Avenue North
White Bear Lake, Minnesota 55110
(651) 762-8570
The information Dr. Willard F. Harley, Jr. provides has saved thousands of marriages from the pain of unresolved conflict and the disaster of divorce. His successful approach to building marriages can help you build yours.

Michigan Healthy Marriage Initiative Demonstration Project
United Way of Jackson County
729 W. Michigan
Jackson, MI 49201
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public advertising campaign to reach residents of Detroit and at least 50,000 low-income African Americans annually; will deliver relationship education to 500 high school students per year using the Connections + PREP curriculum; provide pre-marital education to 1000 prisoners interested in marriage using the PREP, 700 TANF recipients using the PICK Program, and 300 engaged couples using the PREPARE and FOCCUS inventories; provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training to 300 married couples and 300 blended family TANF recipients using the PREP and Smart Steps for Step Families curricula; provide divorce reduction programs for 150 couples in crisis using the Retrouvaille and The Third Option curricula; and provide marriage mentoring for 300 couples.

Together We Can – Creating a Healthy Future for Our Family
Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP

Trinity Health Michigan DBA St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
Trinity Health Michigan DBA St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
44405 Woodward
Pontiac, MI 48341
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Trinity Health Michigan DBA St. Joseph Mercy Oakland will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. According to the organization, they will use two types of curriculum—"Helping Unwed Parents Build Strong and Healthy Marriages" and "Money Smart" as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 180 couples per year by schedule 21-class sessions (for 26 weekly) of healthy marriage education classes to be held bi-weekly by professional education instructors which will be delivered to the couples in a group setting. This training will be accompanied by ongoing support services.

Minnesota

Big Picture Partnering
Dr. Jan Hoistad
3601 Park Center Boulevard
St. Louis Park, MN 55416
United States
1-888-231-2993
Dr. Jan Hoistad has helped thousands of people create healthy, vibrant relationships through partnering. Her unique, results-oriented approach combines coaching, counseling, and action steps. In June 2004, Twofold Publications published Dr. Jan's book, Big Picture Partnering: 16 Weeks to a Rock-Solid Relationship. This volume helps couples to clarify their values, dream together, turn those dreams into reality, and synchronize themselves into a true partnership - without giving away any of their essential individuality or autonomy.

Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches
Healthy Native Fathers Project
Administration for Native Americans
1001 East Lake St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407-0509
Ph. 612-721-8687
This is a three year project to provide urban teen and adult Native American fathers with a supportive, cultural environment in which to learn the tools to excel at parenting and relationship issues while gaining knowledge in culture and life skills. The educational component includes topics such as traditional parenting, communication, healthy relationships, and inexpensive/safe/educational family activities. Domestic violence and anger management group sessions will also be offered.

Minnesota Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative
Minnesota Office of Child Support Enforcement, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Red Lake Path of Life Project
Administration for Native Americans
P.O. Box 550
Red Lake, MN 56671
Ph: 218-679-3341
This is a five year project to establish a network of mentor couples who will be role models to at-risk couples participating in marriage and pre-marriage educational courses. It will also develop an educational course specific to Red Lake culture that has been modified from existing marriage curricula.

Mississippi

Booneville Healthy Marriage Initiative
Booneville School Districts
201 North First St
Booneville, MS 38229
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Booneville Healthy Marriage Initiative will use the funds to implement public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and teach the skills needed to increase marital stability and health; and educate high school students regarding the value of marriage, relationship skills and budgeting.

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc.
OCS-CSBG
5343 Jefferson Street
Moss Point, MS 39563
Ph: 228-769-3292
The CSBG program assists eligible low-income households overcome obstacles that prevent them from becoming self-sufficient. The types of assistance available are Case Management, Direct Assistance, and Supportive Services. The target population is low-income households who meet the eligibility criteria.

The Healthy Marriages/Healthy Kids Project Of Mississippi
Starkville School District
Childrens' Bureau
Mississippi
This project will recruit and train African American clergy and volunteer married couples to teach marriage education classes utilizing the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP). The PREP will be taught in the churches and to the Starkville School District’s Family-Centered programs clientele to 50 pre-marital and married couples [per year??]. A Marriage Bureau will be developed to provide information and referral; one of which will be to maintain an on-going list of clergy and mentor couples who have been trained and are available to provide classes in the community. Individualized marriage classes will be provided for couples who are referred from the Department of Human Services and whose children are either at risk of entering, or are already in, the child welfare system. The grantee plans to host a Marriage Summit to celebrate healthy marriages, disseminate information about the benefits of healthy marriage to children and families, and to share ideas on marriage strengthening.

Missouri

The Cana Institute
5937 Keith Place
St. Louis, MO 63109
314-832-0512
The Cana Institute was founded to provide the kind of care and support needed by married couples, families and single adults living in today's complex society. The approach used is a unique blending of practical relational skills and personal spiritual values.

The Connecting for Baby Project
The Curators of the University of Missouri
310 Jesse Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1230
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Curators of the University of Missouri plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use the "Love Cradle" curriculum as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 660 couples per year. In addition they will (1) Provide a two-day marriage retreat, (2) Provide 11 follow-up educational meetings after the marriage retreat, (3) Provide WarmLine contact with the couples and approximately 4,120 other individuals to coach, reinforce lessons, refer to community resources, and offer ongoing support. (4) Create and distribute a modular Connecting for Baby (CFB) Toolkit with healthy marriage literature and curricula for professionals throughout Missouri reaching an estimated 16,500 people and, (5) Create and distribute public education via television, radio and web to raise awareness among 825,000 individuals about the benefits of a healthy marriage.

Healthy Marriage And Family Program
Forest Institute of Professional Psychology
Childrens' Bureau
2885 West Battlefield
Springfield, MO 65807
Ph: 417-823-3477 or 1-800-424-7793
The Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, along with its partners Southwest Missouri State University and the Southern Region Division of Family Services, propose to develop, implement, and institutionalize a competency-based curriculum to train child welfare staff to more effectively provide marriage and family formation services to their clients. Consisting of two phases, the formal training will include Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) and associated concepts, and will be followed by mentoring trainees as they provide services to the clients. The project will create a network of government, community, and faith-based organizations to assist in addressing the needs clients present to their workers.

Healthy Relationship Skills for Fragile Families
Fathers’ Support Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP
4411 N Newstead Ave
Prince Hall Family Support Center
St.Louis, MO 63115
ph: 314-333-4170
Incorporated as a federal 501(c)3 organization on December 10, 1997, Fathers' Support Center (FSC) is working with the State of Missouri Department of Social Services in helping to support fathers who are unemployed or underemployed in order to impact the outcomes for these fathers and their children. When FSC opened its doors in May 1998 this agency was the first organization of its kind in the State of Missouri.

Operation US
Forest Institute of Professional Psychology
2885 W. Battlefield Rd.
Springfield, MO 65807
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to increase public awareness of the importance of healthy marriage, increase adolescents’ ability to form and sustain healthy relationships by serving 8,000 teens over the course of 5 years, and increase the ability for couples to form and sustain healthy marriages and relationships. Over the course of the 5 year grant, it is anticipated that 1,000 unwed expectant mothers and fathers, 1,000 persons interested in marriage, 500 premarital couples, 1,000 married couples and 500 couples at risk for divorce will be trained in marriage education.

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, i.e. Jewish Vocational Services
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Kansas City, MO
The Refugee Healthy Marriage Program aims to strengthen refugee marriage through education, training, resource development, and local capacity building.

St. Louis Healthy Families Initiative
Better Family Life, Inc.
724 N. Union
Suite 301
St. Louis, MO 63108
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to launch a city-wide healthy marriage social marketing campaign, deliver marriage education to 400 youth using the "Keys to a Healthy Marriage" curriculum, deliver marriage education to 300 TANF-eligible recipients using the "PREP" curriculum, deliver pre-marital education to 200 participants using the "PREP" curriculum, deliver marriage education to 50 unmarried fathers using "PREP" curriculum, deliver marriage education to reduce divorce rates for 50 couples using the "PREP" curriculum, and will deliver a marriage mentoring program to 150 couples also using the "PREP" curriculum. (All of these numbers are annual numbers.)

St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition
St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition
3322 Olive (002)
St. Louis, MO 63103
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to implement a culturally competent public advertising campaign to reach 400,000 people; educate 540 high school students annually on the value of marriage and relationship skills; educate 300 non-married expectant parents annually on marriage and relationship skills; educate 60 engaged couples annually on marriage; educate 334 married couples annually on marriage; and implement a mentoring program that trains and supports 75 mentoring couples in year 2 of the grant and up to 87 couples in year 5.

Tender Beginnings Plus
Healthy Families Counseling and Support
3100 NE 83rd Street
Suite 2500
Kansas City, MO 64119
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Healthy Families Counseling and Support plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers (#3). They will use a program as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 100 couples per year by teaching a 21 week couple’s workshop. In addition, family support services will be provided on an ongoing basis.

Montana

Blackfeet Tribal Business Council
Improving the Well-Being of Children – Native American Healthy Marriage Initiative
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to provide relationship enhancement skills to 150 couples each year utilizing the ‘Love's Cradle’ program. Staff will be trained in Love's Cradle and will train other trainers to present this course. Focus groups will be developed to create collaborative strategies that will assist the Blackfeet Tribe in their Community Wellness and Relationship Strengthening initiative.

Marriage Works! Learning Center
415 N. Higgins
Missoula, Montana 59802
406-543-9491

Marriage Works! offers relationship skills education for all couples, combining PREP®, Gottman research, and the neurobiology of attachment and connection. We also offer training and consulting in relationship skills education for early intervention and public school staff throughout Western Montana. Classes in Missoula are offered through MCPS Adult Education Center.

Nebraska

Indian Center, Inc.
Nebraska Indian Healthy Marriage Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to establish focus groups and collect 450 surveys to determine a culturally appropriate curriculum for their target communities. Sixteen trainers will be trained to deliver Healthy Marriage education to the different communities served by the Indian Center, Inc. A Healthy Marriage Strength Builders Manual and Healthy Marriage Media Campaign will also be developed.

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
Winnebago Hazohi Healthy Marriage Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to provide pre-marital WAIT education, fatherhood training utilizing the ‘Fatherhood is Sacred’ curriculum, and PREP training to youth, individuals and couples. The project will also provide Train the Trainer activities for the ‘Fatherhood is Sacred’ and PREP curriculums.

New Hampshire

Collaborative Post-Adoption Services Project Of New Hampshire (CPAS-NH)
Child and Family Services of New Hampshire
Childrens' Bureau
Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, in partnership with Casey Family Services of New Hampshire and in cooperation with the Division for Children, Youth and Families of the State of New Hampshire, will implement and evaluate this collaborative approach to comprehensive, wraparound post-adoption services centered on marriage education. The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) curriculum will be used in a weekend retreat setting with foster care families voluntarily requesting preventive or early intervention services after adoption has taken place. The service area will consist of Hillsborough and Merrimack Counties in Central New Hampshire, and Rockingham County in Eastern New Hampshire.

New Jersey

The Healthy Marriages Program of El Centro
Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton, NJ
Childrens' Bureau
El Centro de Recursos Para Familias, a program within this Diocese, will implement the El Centro Healthy Marriage Initiative. This project will provide the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) curriculum in Spanish to 200 Latino couples in the Mercer County area. They propose serving approximately 50 couples during each of the four years of the grant. The model will utilize linguistically and culturally appropriate outreach and intervention services using both bilingual and bicultural staff.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement

The Relationship Center
41 Reckless Pl
Red Bank, NJ
866-745-7700
The Relationship Center provides strategies for singles and couples to improve the quality of their most important relationships.

New Mexico

All My Relations Project
First Nations Community HealthSource
5608 Zuni SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The funds will be used to strengthen and evaluate marriages/relationships through marriage/relationship education, enrichment training, and traditional Native interventions; and to build and strengthen partnerships to increase the community’s capacity to assist couples, youth, and families.

First Nations Community Health Source
Navajo Healthy Marriage Opportunities Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to strengthen marriage and family relationships among 30 American Indian couples and single parents, and 30 youths (ages 12-17 years). Couples/single parents and youth will develop skills in being involved partners and positive role models and will learn how to resolve conflicts, disagreements, and disputes in a peaceful manner. Single parents and youth will also learn interpersonal skills to strengthen future marital relationships.

New Mexico Couples Forming Community Healthy Marriage Initiative Demonstration Project
Samaritan Counseling Center
1101 Medical Arts Ave, SE
Bldg 3
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Samaritan Counseling Center will use the grant funds to implement activities designed to provide the following to couples in New Mexico: 1) introductory exposure to relationship skill and marriage-sustaining values and support; 2) Intensive relationship skills training; 3) mentor relationship with trained and seasoned couples who have integrated effective skills and stabilizing values into their marriages; and 4) professional counseling interventions for couples who may be facing particular difficulties or who require individualized assistance in applying skills and coping with stressors.

New Mexico Healthy Marriage Initiative
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30003
MSC 3470
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The University will use the program grant funds to compensate personnel in order to establish, offer and implement 18 couple and wellness class series to 270 adults and their children in Dona Ana County and the metro Albuquerque area. Each class series will consist of 12 two-hour sessions for the entire family.

New Mexico Marriages First
The Family Lifeline
1207 Golf Court SE
Suite E
Rio Rancho, NM 87124
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Best Choice Educational Services will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income, unmarried couples expecting a child, high school students, unwed parents, stepfamilies, and couples who are engaged and/or married for the second time. They will use a pilot program as a cultural model to reach out to an estimated 2000 high schools and 3000 couples over a five year period. They will also work specifically with three American Indian tribes to train Native mentors to work with couples to learn healthy marriage strategies within these cultures.

The Marriage Enrichment Weekend Program
The Marriage Enrichment Weekend Program, Inc. Post Office Box 94026 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87199-4026
505-821-1571 (ext. 305)
The mission of Marriage Enrichment is to strengthen marriage between a man and a woman through a spiritual, experiential-based process that places God at the center. This is accomplished through parish/congregation-based marriage programs for married couples, engaged couples, and youth that foster commitment and growth, develop couple leadership, provide mutual support, and build community.

The Marriage Enrichment Weekend Program
Marriage Enrichment Program Church of the Risen Savior 7701 Wyoming Boulevard, NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
505-821-1571 (ext. 305)
The mission of Marriage Enrichment is to strengthen marriage between a man and a woman through a spiritual, experiential-based process that places God at the center. This is accomplished through parish/congregation-based marriage programs for married couples, engaged couples, and youth that foster commitment and growth, develop couple leadership, provide mutual support, and build community.

Shiprock Home for Women and Children
Navajo Healthy Marriage Opportunities Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to provide marriage enrichment activities in the form of PREP training, couple mentoring, and marriage retreats; parenting activities utilizing the ‘Family Spirit Program’ curriculum; and fatherhood activities using the ‘Dads and Donuts’ program.

Youth Development, Inc.
Youth Development, Inc.
901 Pennsylvania NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Youth Development, Inc plans to provide Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use the "Loving Couples Loving Children" curriculum program as a model to essentially reach out to 150 couples per year by teaching within a classroom setting every two weeks for eleven months. In addition, another component of the program will be the ongoing case management and partnership between family services specialists and their families.

New York

Child Welfare Services Training
Syracuse University
Childrens' Bureau
The Syracuse University’s project, through a unique inter-professional collaboration of three departments within the College of Human Services and Health Professions: the School of Social Work, the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, and the Department of Child and Family Studies, will develop curricula and provide training for both existing child welfare agency staff, and students who will be entering this field of service so they can address marriage and family issues effectively, with the goal of improving outcomes for children.

Couple CARE for Parents
The Research Foundation of SUNY, Stony Brook University
Department of Psychology
Stonybrook, NY 11794-3362
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Research Foundation of SUNY, Stony Brook University plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use the "Couple CARE for Parents" program as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 1000 couples over a five-year period by having, (1) the first session in the participant’s home; (2) using at-home video-based training and practice, supplemented with weekly telephone consultation with a skills educator; (3) emphasizing the self-directed change, whereby participants learn both the skills and the process for setting their own goals, attempting changes, and self-evaluating improvements and; (4) focusing on a critical period (i.e. birth of a child) when couples are most open to prevention.

Expanding The Family Circle: Child Welfare Training On Healthy Marriage And Family Formation
The Research Foundation of SUNY
Childrens' Bureau
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Albany School of Social Welfare, in collaboration with the New York State Office for Children and Family Services, the Social Work Education Consortium, and the Center for Human Services Research is implementing this project. The intent is to launch a competency-based curriculum development and training plan that promotes family-centered practice; incorporates healthy marriage, family formation, and father involvement into child welfare practice; and is culturally competent in its application to diverse populations in the State. This reflects the school’s effort to help the State improve outcomes for children and families.

Friends of the Family
ALBANY
425 Ellsworth St. SW
(541) 917-8957, CORVALLIS
505 NW Harrison Blvd.
(541) 757-1761" 541-757-1761
Friends of the Family Ministries (FOFM) is a non-profit, non-denominational organization committed to building healthy relationships and healthy homes in the Mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. FOFM provides a variety of services including counseling, workshops and seminars teaching and coaching. In addition to these services, FOFM is a community resource that works with and is supported by a wide range of community organizations, businesses and individuals.

Healthy Marriage Discretionary Grants
Shalom Task Force
P.O. Box 137
Bowling Green Station, NY 10274
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Shalom Task Force will work with over 30 community collaborators to offer relationship and marriage education workshops to high school students as well as seminary, yeshiva, and post seminary young women and men who are interested in marriage or engaged. Community collaborators will serve as key portal institutions serving the community. Using the Bertha Kaufman Educational Awareness Program (BKEAP), Shalom Task Force will train 10 leaders and hold BKEAP workshops for 1080 high school seniors and 550 men and women in seminary, post seminary, or yeshiva. Teachers of brides and grooms in the target population will be trained to teach communication and conflict resolution skills and to recognize and prevent domestic violence.

IMAGO Relationships International (IRI)
160 Broadway, East Building, Suite 1001 New York, NY, 10038
1-800-729-1121
Imago Relationships International is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the world one relationship at a time and create a new model for marriage. More than 1900 therapists practice Imago Therapy in more than 20 countries. In addition, over 160 Certified Imago Presenters offer workshops and seminars for couples and individuals that help thousands of persons world-wide every year. Imago also offers training programs for qualified therapists to become Certified Imago Relationship Therapists. Imago Relationships International is an American Psychological Association-approved Sponsor of Continuing Education.

Improving Marriages of Incarcerated Parents in New York
The Osborne Association
Childrens' Bureau
The Osborne Association’s Healthy Marriage Project will provide 6 to 8 sessions of the evidence based Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) to married parents of minor children, who are soon to be released or have been recently released from New York State prisons and their spouses. The project will serve 40 to 50 couples per year.

Judith Johnsen: New York
153 Main Street
Suite #9
Sayville, NY 11782
631-563-5069
My Goal Is to Help You:

Cope more effectively.
Become more aware of possibilities.
Become less frustrated with stress.
Decrease obstacles and maximize personal power.
Have better self-esteem.
Create a more balanced life.
Discover your strengths and build on them.

There are ways to work through most personal crises. You don't have to walk alone. You can set the pace. I will use what I have learned to help you get there.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Marriage Success Training: premarital education seminars
Kuhlman / MST
191 Saint Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
866-704-6565
What is MST?
A small, one-day, religion-neutral seminar, designed to help couples achieve their marriage goals (and to help those couples trying to decide whether marriage is right for them).

Led by a married couple who are both experienced counseling professionals.
Based on the latest scientific marriage research.
Strengthen your communication, conflict resolution and other relationship skills.
A practical, fun, low-pressure experience.
Active learning - not a lecture format.
Learn to manage compatibility issues constructively.
Validates the relationship styles & needs of both genders.
More comprehensive than most other premarital classes or counseling options.

Project TEAM
P.E.A.C.E. Inc.
217 S. Salina Street
Syracuse, NY 13202

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Supporting Healthy Marriage Program
University Behavioral Associates
111 E. 210th street
Bronx, NY 10467
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The University Behavioral Associates Healthy Marriage Program intends to use funds to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Additionally, the program recognizes the varied ways in which people learn and will use lectures, hand-outs, role-playing and group discussion to show participants the benefits of creating a healthy marriage. Some of the goals and desired outcomes are to recruit 100 married couples with children per year for participation with an 80% completion rate of the marriage education curriculum and at least 40 couples continuing the program for booster sessions and special activities.

The Third Option
1342 Lancaster Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13210
The Third Option is an on-going group program to build better marriages. It is designed for all married couples and can be used both as marriage enrichment or crisis intervention. For hurting couples, who see only two options (painful endurance or divorce) the third option means reconciliation. For ordinary couples, the program teaches them the skills they need to have happier, healthier marriages.

North Carolina

Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment (ACME)
Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment P.O. Box 21374 Winston-Salem,NC 27120
(800) 634-8325
he Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment is an international, non-profit, non-sectarian organization whose purpose is to promote better marriages by providing enrichment opportunities and resources that strengthen couple relationships, increase intimacy and enhance personal growth, mutual fulfillment and family wellness. ACME consists of married couples dedicated to enriching their own marriages and other marriages in their communities. Trained lay-couples facilitate various types of events throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries. Professionals in marriage enrichment and related fields are also members.

Healthy Marriage Life Skills: A Family Readiness Program
East Carolina University
150 Rivers Bldg
Greenville, NC 27858
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Universities will use the funds to implement the Life Skills for Healthy Marriage (LSHM) Program, which will provide couples with the information and skills needed to help strengthen their relationship. The Program includes: deployment readiness, financial management, parenting together and apart, couple commitment, communication skills, and problem solving. Family and Consumer Science agents in Cooperative Extension will be trained in LSHM and will provide this resource to National Guard couples within their communities throughout North Carolina.

Healthy Marriage Matters: Marriage Activities Tailored for Teens
CJH Educational Grant Services, Incorporated
P.O. Box 14264
Raleigh, NC 27620-4264
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: CJH and partners will use the funds to offer elective courses approved by local school boards, such as, The Alabama Healthy Couples, Healthy Children Project: Relationship Smarts. They will also launch a major community-wide social media campaign promoting the benefits of marriage; host community training, conferences, workshops and provide technical assistance.

The National Christian Family Resources Council (NCFRC)
PO Box 102 Hickory, NC 28603
828-324-1690
Our ministry is based on the belief that healthy marriages help to make healthy families; healthy families, in turn, help to create healthy churches and communities and ultimately a more healthy country. Our entire team is committed to meeting the enrichment and developmental needs of married couples and the members of their families.

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Soul Healing Love Retreats
Rogers Christian Counseling 1206 Jules Ct. Charlotte, NC 28226
704-364-9176
Bev & Tom Rodgers founded Rodgers Christian Counseling and work with individuals, couples and families in Charlotte, NC. Both are members of the American Association of Christian Counselors and Certified Imago Relationship Therapists, skilled in Harville Hendrix's work in his books Getting the Love you Want and Keeping the Love You Find.

Strong Couples-Strong Children
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
104 Airport Drive
Suite 2200, CB 1350
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Youth Development, Inc plans to implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income unmarried couples expecting a child. They will use a pilot program as a model to essentially reach out to 565 couples per year by providing ongoing weekly sessions of healthy marriage education classes along with ongoing support services.

North Dakota

St. Ann's Church
St. Ann's Native American Healthy Marriages Initiative Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to provide marriage enrichment activities to approximately 30 families per year. Youth relationship skills education using the PREP curriculum will be provided to 650 youth. This project will also develop a network/referral system for the community that will also be used to develop mentors for the families and youth participating in the program.

Ohio

Beech Acres Parenting Center Healthy Marriage/Healthy Communities
Beech Acres Parenting Center
6881 Beachmont Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45230
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program funds will be used to achieve the over-arching goal of the program, which is to increase awareness of the value of marriage within their target communities. Some of the activities of the program are to provide 480 high school students with classes showing the value of marriage and relationship skills per year; use a target-appropriate curriculum to deliver relationship skills programs to a minimum of 20 non-married expectant fathers per year; provide pre-marital education to a minimum of 30 engaged couples per year; provide marriage enhancement and relationship skills training to a minimum of 30 married couples in each community per year; create and deliver divorce reduction programs and support groups to a minimum of 15 struggling couples in each community per year; and provide a marriage mentoring program for a minimum of 10 couples in each community per year.

CSBG T&TA Promoting Healthy Marriages
Ohio Community Action Training Organization
OCS-CSBG

Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute
3320 Beechwood Avenue
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
216-321-0930
The Mission of the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute is to empower couples, families and individuals by utilizing innovative educational techniques based on universal spiritual principles to support the progressive development of healthy marriages and communities.

Marriage Resource Center of Miami Valley
Marriage Savers of Clark County, Inc. dba Marriage Resource Center
616 N. Limestone St.
Springfield, OH 45503
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Marriage Savers of Clark County, Inc. will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target low-income, unmarried couples and unwed parents. They will use a pilot program as a cultural model to essentially reach out to over 265 couples per year.

Marriage Transformation Project
25241 Chatworth Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44123 USA
(800) 501-6682
The Marriage Transformation Project is a global social and economic development project committed to marriage education and marriage skill building for people at all stages of relationships. A key focus of the project is developing materials that assist people before marriage to know one another's characters and couples after marriage to encourage development of their character qualities.

Marriage Works! Collaborative
Elizabeth's New Life Center, Inc.
359 Forest Ave, Suite 203
Dayton, OH 45405
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to provide marriage education, program outreach and media campaigns, and high school education to over 18,000 participants over a 5 year period. ENLC plans to strengthen existing marriages and overcome barriers to marriage that exist within unmarried couples by providing them with skills-based training and a supportive, educational environment.

Operation Keepsake
Operation Keepsake, Inc.
10568 Ravenna Road, Suite #9
Twinsburg, OH 44087
Operation Keepsake plans to incorporate eight activities as follows: 1) "For Keep" 5-day high school curriculum, 2) "Resistance" team presentation, 3) gap-"The Gender Approach Project" presentation, 4) Breakdown assemblies, 5) "represent" teen magazine, 6) media campaign, 7) parent/teacher workshops/seminars, and 8) "Directions" publication. They expect to serve 2,000 students in the first year. The project will increase the participants’ efficacy with relationship and communication skills, increase the participants’ knowledge of the negative social, psychological, and healthy consequences of domestic violence, and increase the participants’ knowledge of the benefits of a healthy marriage to the individual, children, and society.

Parents as Partners: The Clark County Ohio Demonstration Initiative
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Clark Co., Ohio
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

Relationship Matters
Pregnancy Support Center
P.O. Box 8451
Canton, OH 44701
The Pregnancy Support Center plans to provide 1400 students each year with classroom instruction in high schools on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health using the Connections: Dating and Emotions and Connections: Relationships and Marriage curriculums. They will also provide public advertising campaigns on the value of marriage and the skills needed to increase marital stability and health. Students will learn about how healthy relationships develop, how to recognize destructive patterns, how to deal with emotions, effective ways to communicate, why marriage matters, and why abstinence from sexual activity before marriage will help produce a healthier marriage, and budgeting skills.

Strong Start for Cuyahogas Families
Cuyahoga County Board of County Commissioners
1219 Ontario St. 4th floor
Cleveland, OH 44113
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Board plans to provide Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use a pilot program called the "Healthy Marriage" curriculum as a model to essentially reach out to 540 participants per year by having 12 weekly training sessions, two hours in duration, at one of the six neighborhood centers. Under the guidance of a Site Coordinator, these centers will also provide the opportunity for participants to reinforce their emerging communication skills via quality one-on-one time with their significant other and child in a positive family environment.

Turning the Tide for Ohio’s Black Marriages
Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
77 South High St.
30th Fl.
Columbus, OH 43215-6117
The Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Strengthening Ohio’s Families Initiatives (SOFI), will direct efforts to expand, enhance, and build community capacity to serve individuals in three SOFI priority populations: vulnerable youth, ex-offenders and their families, and education, mentoring and counseling couples in an effort to sustain and promote Healthy Marriages. This project is entitled "Turning the Tide for Ohio’s Black Marriages." Grant funds are being used to promote activities under Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants, Priority area 8, Healthy Marriage Grants to Implement any Allowable Activity. Allowable Activity 6, (Divorce reduction programs that teach relationship skills) is being implemented. The curriculum, Basic Training for Black Couples, will be used to give couples in Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, and Toledo the tools they need to form and sustain Healthy Marriages. Service delivery is provided by Faith-Based and Community Organizations.

Oklahoma

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Choctaw Nation Healthy Marriages/Healthy Kids Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to provide family support services and marriage enrichment classes to Native American youth and young adults within the Choctaw community in order to promote a healthy home environment and promote healthy marriage.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Project SNAFU (Saving Native American Family Units)
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to provide relationship-building skills classes to Native American married couples with children, married couples raising Native American children within the community and to tribal members. The classes provided will include effective communication, conflict resolution, healthy relationship skills, and parent accountability.

Marriage Retreats for Special Needs Caregivers
Oklahoma Department of Human Services
P.O. Box 25352
Oklahoma City, OK 73125
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The grant funds will be used to continually provide services to 1200 high-risk married couples, parents with children with developmental disabilities, kinship care, foster Parents, Parents involved in the TANF child-only program, low-income couples receiving public assistance for self and children, and caregivers providing services for high-risk families. Public Strategies, Incorporated through the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services, will continue to manage the healthy marriage service delivery system.

National Indian Women's Health Resource Center
"Healthy Relationship Skills for Youth"
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to develop and implement a Healthy Relationship Skills curriculum and training for youth/young adults ages 11-23. Historical documents will be researched to review traditional beliefs and values regarding relationship skills and communication skills. From these reviews, a written summary of these beliefs and values will be prepared and will be incorporated into the curriculum.

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative: Family Expectations
Public Strategies, Inc.
301 NW 63rd St., Suite 215
Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Family Expectations is a comprehensive, couple-based, marriage education program for lower-income expectant or new parents. The goal of the program is to increase family well- being by helping expectant pregnant couples strengthen their relationships through the utilization of research-based skills taught in a thirty hour workshop. These workshops address issues such as healthy communication, anger and stress management, baby care, child development, and the importance of preserving couple time. Ancillary services, delivered at the completion of the workshop series, and access to a Family Support Coordinator are also included in this compendium of services allowing for a program duration of 15 to 18 months. Family Expectations serves approximately 500 couples each year and is in its third year of program operation.

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative
The Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) is a statewide, multi-sector effort to improve the well being of children by strengthening marriages. Under the management of Public Strategies' and with funding and high-level leadership from the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services (DHS), the OMI has become the longest running and farthest-reaching effort of its kind in the country. Since its inception in 1999, the OMI has focused on building and growing an effective system for delivering relationship education services to couples who are married, engaged or on the path to marriage. The OMI Service Delivery System (SDS) consists of over 2,000 professional and paraprofessional volunteers trained to provide community-based services to diverse audiences across the state.

Oregon

Hope Family Services Marriage & Family Learning Center
Hope Family Services 2710 SE 182nd Ave. Gresham, OR 97030
503-667-1435
The Hope Family Services Marriage & Family Center's mission is to promote the common good and general welfare of the people of the community. This is accomplished by providing Counseling and Educational Programs that are needed to enhance the individual's quality of life, prepare couples for marriage, to strengthen families & marriages and to save troubled marriages.

Lasting Relationships
Northwest Family Services
4805 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR 97213
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a media campaign on the value and skills of marriage to reach approximately 1,000,000 residents of the Portland metropolitan area per year; will provide outreach to 5,000 high school and college students to educate them on relationship skills including abstinence education classes annually; will provide skill-based marriage education classes for 175 non-married pregnant parents, 800 – 1,000 engaged couples, and 1,000 – 1,500 married couples per year. NWFS will establish a culturally competent mentor couple program with 50 – 60 couples per year.

Making Marriage Matter (M3)
Samaritan Counseling Centers
1817 NE 17th
Portland, OR 97212
SCC plans to provide pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples and for couples or individuals interested in marriage, as well as marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples. They will hold nine classes and serve 80 couples in year one (30 pre-marital, 50 married). They will Hold 19 classes by Year five and serve 50 pre-marital and 103 married couples. Couples will gain skills needed to attain and maintain a healthy marriage, including improved communication, improved conflict resolution abilities, and strengthened commitment to increasing marital stability. Five types of classes will be provided in order to meet the variety of needs of couples and booster sessions will be offered for couples to increase their skills. In addition, couples may take multiple classes based on their needs and interests. Couples will attend three two-hour classes and three one-hour individualized trainings, although couples in acute distress or serious conflict will receive 15 hours.

Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYF)
Healing Circle Family Preservation Project
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to provide marriage and pre-marital education and relationship services to Native Americans within the Portland metropolitan area. The project will create curriculum materials for parenting education classes and pre-marital education which will focus on improving communication, goal-setting and problem solving capabilities.

Native Wellness Institute
Leading the Next Generation
Administration for Native Americans
This is a three year project to implement a training model with tribes, tribal organizations and tribal communities that will address healthy marriage and develop relationships with families within the target Native community. Staff will collect materials that address historical and intergenerational traumas, culturally-specific healing methods, wellness concepts, and field test and disseminate the information to improve and promote healthy couple relationships.

Pennsylvania

Caring for Marriage
Caring for Marriage
Box 277, 600 Tomlinson Rd
Bryn Athyn, PA 19009-0277
215-947-3564
Caring for Marriage is located near Philadelphia and is a faith based organization. Lori and her husband John have nine children and have been leading marriage events since before they knew they were not qualified. For resources, schedules, registration, and inspiration, visit caringformarriage.org.

Center of Relationship Enhancement (CORE)
70 West Oakland Street
Suite 313
Doylestown, PA 18901
215-348-2424
At CORE, we believe that:

Developing secure, trusting and satisfying relationships will improve your life.
You can learn the skills you need to develop and sustain these important relationships.
You can learn to better appreciate those who are already in your life.
You can look forward to creating new relationships that will enhance your life.

Family Formation and Development
Lehigh Valley Healthy Marriage Coalition (LHMC), Community Services for Children (CSC), Allentown, PA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP

Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants
Children's Aid Society in Clearfield County
1008 South Second Street
Clearfield, PA 16830
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Funds for this grant will provide low-income married couples with marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs. Community Services for Children plans to serve 150 couples in its first year. Some of the objectives of the program are to strengthen healthy relationships between married couples whose children are enrolled in the Head Start Program and to enhance the organization’s Healthy Relationships and Marriage Education Course. The main activity will be 15 8-week marriage skills and enhancement sessions. In addition, the program will provide couple’s with relationship resources and an environment in which couples can talk through problems that may have arose during the week with a facilitator. Expected outcomes include at least 80% of couples having improved their communication skills and their decision-making skills.

Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants
Community Services for Children, Inc.
1520 Hanover Avenue
Allentown, PA 18109
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Funds for this grant will provide low-income married couples with marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs. Community Services for Children plans to serve 150 couples in its first year. Some of the objectives of the program are to strengthen healthy relationships between married couples whose children are enrolled in the Head Start Program and to enhance the organization’s Healthy Relationships and Marriage Education Course. The main activity will be 15 8-week marriage skills and enhancement sessions. In addition, the program will provide couple’s with relationship resources and an environment in which couples can talk through problems that may have arose during the week with a facilitator. Expected outcomes include at least 80% of couples having improved their communication skills and their decision-making skills.

Healthy Marriage Education Project
OIC of America
1415 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-3323
OIC plans to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage relationship skills and budgeting, and to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They expect to serve 1500 high school youth and 50 expectant women and unmarried fathers using the "Keys to a Healthy Marriage" and "PREP Within My Reach"and "Within our Reach" curriculums. The program includes 50 hours of instruction and support services over 12 weeks.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement

The Marriage Works Of Pennsylvania
Family Guidance, Inc.
Childrens' Bureau
The Marriage Works program will develop a network of churches in four targeted African American communities of Pittsburgh that will be equipped to strengthen the relationships of couples with children under the age of 18. The initiative will conduct classes using a culturally appropriate adaptation of the nationally recognized PREPARE/ENRICH marriage education materials, provide couple-to-couple mentoring services, offer crisis marriage support, and refer the most difficult relationships to appropriate sources of help. The goal of the project is to establish five sites in one year and an additional five sites in each of the three subsequent years in which small group relational education programs will be provided. Follow-up mentoring and coaches will provide additional support. Over the course of four years, The Marriage Works project plans to serve 450 to 500 parents of children at risk of entering the child welfare system.

Marriages of Hope Project
Nueva Esperanza, Inc.
4261 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Marriages of Hope Program intends to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. The goal of the Marriages of Hope program is for the couples who are being served to sustain and improve their marriages in spite of challenges. Objectives of the program include providing culturally relevant marriage enhancement training and training congregational couples to serve as marriage mentors. Activities include implementation of the marriage curriculum, marriage workshops, a marriage enrichment retreat and a marriage mentoring program.

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Relationship Education at Council for Relationships
Council For Relationships
4025 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 382-6680
Council for Relationships, a preeminent non-profit counseling, education and research center, was founded in 1932 as Marriage Council of Philadelphia, and remains the oldest relationship counseling and training center in the country. We provide services for individuals, couples, children and families at fourteen locations throughout the Delaware Valley.

Rita DeMaria: Philadelphia
921A Bethlehem Pike, Suite 205
Spring House, PA 19477
(215) 628-2450
Established by Rita DeMaria, Ph.D., Marriage Doctor is dedicated to helping you strengthen and revitalize your relationship and keep it healthy and pleasurable, regardless of your age or stage of life.

Skillful Couples Vibrant Marriages
2034 Worcester Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15243
412-257-0520
To provide services that transform families into ones which are:

Spiritually alive: each person has a growing, personal relationship with Jesus Christ that impacts every aspect of their lives.
Relationally strong: parents and children experience empowering and satisfying relationships where each person and relationship is accepted and valued as a gift from God.
Emotionally healthy: Each person sees themselves and their unique journey as God sees them, resulting in the experience of abiding peace.
Developmentally successful: The marriage, family experience and each child successfully accomplishes stage/age appropriate, developmental tasks that produce a growing marriage and mature adults who can reproduce these goals in their own families.

TWOGether Pittsburgh
Family Guidance, Inc.
307 Duff Road
Sewickley, PA 15143-9554
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to create healthier, more viable marriages by using the PREPARE/ENRICH, PREP, and PAIRS curricula. Anticipated results include serving 1000 to 1500 couples and individuals in pre-marital programs, 1500 to 2000 individuals in marriage enrichment, 200 couples in marriage mentoring, 250 couples in divorce reduction programs, and 500 to 600 high-school aged students.

South Carolina

The Heritage Keepers® Healthy Marriage Initiative In Charleston, SC
Heritage Community Services
Childrens' Bureau
South Carolina
The Heritage Keepers® Healthy Marriage Initiative (HK® HMI) will primarily serve at-risk, low income African American couples in a crisis pregnancy center ( Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center). Hispanic and Caucasian couples will also be served. The HK® HMI will use marriage education services modeled after the Building Strong Families model, an ACF initiative used to develop and evaluate programs designed to help interested unwed parents achieve their aspirations for a healthy marriage and a stable family life. They will also use the Abridged FOCCUS Premarital Inventory, and the Marriage Savers Mentoring Model. The project will serve 100 to 160 couples over the four years of the grant.

Tennessee

10 Great Dates
7900 Grousemoor Dr.
Knoxville, TN 37919-4407
(888) 690-6667
Remember back to your dating days—the excitement you felt? Now you can reclaim that same spark, connection, and creativity in your marriage through ten intentional, memory-making dates. This proven approach to relationship growth is low-key, purposeful, effective, easy, and fun , and will help you

Communicate better
Put the sizzle back in sex
Process anger and resolve conflicts
Develop spiritual intimacy
Appreciate your differences
Balance busy lifestyles
And much more!

First Things First, Community Saturation Model
First Things First, Inc.
620 Lindsay Street
Suite 100
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a public advertising campaign, equip 100 non-married expectant parents a year with marriage education, provide premarital education to a minimum of 1,000 individuals a year for 5 years, provide marriage enrichment and skills training for 500 married couples each year for 5 years, conduct a divorce reduction program using the "Divorce Busting," "The Magic of Love: Relationship Enhancement" curricula to a minimum of 75 couples each year, and provide education to 5,000 high school students a year using "Connections" and "Love U2" curricula

Caring Couples Network (CCN)
1908 Grand Avenue | P.O. Box 340004
Nashville, TN 37203-0004
(615) 340-7200
1-800-972-0433
The Upper Room® is a global ministry dedicated to supporting the spiritual formation of Christians seeking to know and experience God more fully. From its beginnings as a daily devotional guide, Upper Room Ministries® has grown to include publications, programs, prayer support, and other resources to help believers of all ages and denominations move to a deeper level of faith and service.

Family Dynamics Institute
P.O. Box 682549 Franklin, TN 37068-2549
(800) 650-9995
Christian non-profit marriage and family ministry. Family Dynamics is a nonprofit marriage and family ministry headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee (just outside of Nashville). We help churches and organizations take proactive steps to prevent marriages from reaching a state of distress and to revive those that are already in distress. By being trained to lead our Dynamic Marriage course, you can transform bad marriages, increase intimacy in good ones, save the future of children involved in hurting homes, and bring new families into your church. For couples in troubled marriages, we provide a very successful turn-around seminar that saves marriages.

Texas

Active Relationships Programs
Active Relationships Center
Kelly Simpson M.A. Psyc., LMFT, CSC
25 Highland Park Village, Suite 100-734
Dallas, Texas 75205
(877) 724-7789
Authored in 2003, Active Relationships is a state-of-the-art series and is a compilation of healthy marriages and relationships BEST practices, with available programs such as communication, money personalities, romance, traditions, active adults (for singles), active relationships for young adults (for youth), reunions (for military) and military life skills (for single or married military personnel).

Affair Recovery Center & Emergency Marriage Seminar
Crossroads Counseling Associates
4131 Spicewood Springs
Suite K-1
Austin, Texas 78759
888-5ARC-EMS
The Affair Recovery Center is a partnership of counseling professionals dedicated to the restoration of marriages crippled by infidelity. Our community includes numerous couples who have experienced the abundant blessings of reconciliation and renewal. We offer:

A Community of Hope, made up of couples who have been where you are
Individual counseling is available through Crossroads Counseling & Associates at 512-346-9299
Affair recovery groups for couples and individuals
Free resources and links on our website
Seminars for organizations, ministries and churches
Subscription-only services for in-depth resources and ongoing support

AVANCE – Austin Healthy Marriages for Travis Counties
Avance, Inc.
2800 S. Interstate Highway 35, #160
Austin, TX 78704
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The AVANCE – Austin Healthy Marriages for Travis and Bastrop Counties program will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples. The program plans to serve 80 low-income married couples during its first year. Some of the objectives of the AVANCE – Austin Healthy Marriages for Travis and Bastrop Counties program are to guide couples in forming a positive support base, provide couples with information to reduce conflicts and provide couples with community resources and support services. Some of the desired outcomes are for couples to increase their knowledge of essential relationship skills, increase marital satisfaction and spend more time together. AVANCE – Austin has 22 activities planned for the project period which include weekly interactive sessions discussing healthy marriages and couple’s nights.

Building Relationships between Adolescent Parents
Texas State University - San Marcos
Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
The goal of the Building Relationships between Adolescent Parents project is to assist adolescent parents in building and maintaining healthy relationships by helping them develop their personal and relationship skills. They plan to train Texas State interns in a modified version of the Connections: Relationships and Marriage curriculum and to serve 60-120 adolescent parents and 20-40 of their family members the first year and 120-240 adolescent parents and 40-80 family members in subsequent years. Sessions of 10-20 participants will be held concurrently in the Austin/San Marcos area each fall and spring semester, one to two times a week, over a 12 week period during the lunch hour.

Building Strong Families in TX
Texas Office of the Attorney General, San Angelo and Houston, TX
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver

El Paso Healthy Marriage Initiative
El Paso Center for Children, Inc.
1155 Westmorland Dr.
El Paso, TX 79925
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The El Paso Healthy Marriage Initiative plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to married couples. The El Paso Center for Children will use classes and workshops to provide couples with marriage skills and will also have monthly follow-up sessions for up to one year. Additionally, social events such as ranch retreat and a mountain retreat will take place. In the first year, the program aims to serve 125 couples with children and will continue to serve that number of couples in the remaining years. Some of the objectives are to pilot the PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) Spanish curriculum, prepare and provide service plans for each participating couple, and support the formation of peer support groups.

El Paso Healthy Marriage Project
Roger O'Dell Model Cities
11199 Pellicano Dr.
El Paso, TX 79935
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Model Cities-El Paso plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples as well as, marriage skills training for couples or individuals interested in marriage. Using the Six Building Blocks of a Healthy Marriage (6BB) 12 hour curriculum, Model Cities expects to serve 1000 couples the first year, implement and operate an efficient and effective healthy marriage education training and support program for needy families in West Texas; implement and operate an efficient and effective program to promote responsible parenting, and implement and operate an efficient and effective program to reduce and eliminate aggressive behaviors and to promote non-violent married family life as the expected lifestyle.

The Family Enrichment Program (Houston)
Alliance for Multicultural Community Services, Somali Bantu of Greater Houston, Multi-Ethnic Community Center and Catholic Charities
Office of Refugee Resettlement

For Better and For Ever - Marriage Preparation
1617 Iowa St.
San Antonio, TX 78203
250-534-1129
In 1975, For Better and For Ever was designed to help local churches provide quality Christian marriage preparation for engaged couple. Since 1996, Marriage Preparation Resources has been on on-line resource for dating/engaged couples and churches. What do we do? We teach what Christian marriage is and the skills needed for it. Whom do we assist? We assist couples considering Christian marriage and Covenant marriage. We also assist clergy, marriage educators and "sponsor/mentor couples" who help couples prepare for Christian marriage and Covenant marriage.

Four Connections And A Fun Day
DePelchin Children’s Center
Childrens' Bureau
DePelchin Children’s Center will provide services to build resilience and strengthen marital and family functioning among adoptive families by establishing healthy connections: 1) cohesive marital relationships; 2) positive family relationships; 3) broad support networks; and 4) therapeutic expertise. The service components include (1) quarterly Fun Days; (2) four cycles of marriage education classes using the effective Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), interwoven with the Educational Network for Adoption – Building Lasting Environments (ENABLE) curriculum which will be offered annually. Concurrently, children will participate in related social-emotional, educational and skill-development groups; (3) Office and home-based therapy services; (4) Financial assistance for respite services; and (5) Training for therapists on techniques, skills and promising approaches to work with adoptive families.

Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition
Family Services of Greater Houston
3815 Montrose Blvd
Suite 200
Houston, TX 77006
Family Services is requesting funds to add five new activities to the Greater Houston Healthy Marriage Coalition’s array of services to increase its effectiveness in promoting healthy relationships among Houston’s low income population. Those activities include (1) developing a targeted media campaign to promote the Coalition’s goals and activities reaching over 50,000 people per year; (2) teaching relationship and communication skills to teens at various Houston-area high school locations reaching 620 teens per year; (3) coordinating the delivery of a pre-marital inventory (RELATE) among Houston’s leading non-profit counseling organizations to reach 400 couples per year; (4) conducting an annual multicultural marriage enrichment weekend program for 120 couples; and (5) using mentors to enhance the effectiveness of the core marriage education program to reach 20 couples annually. The overall objective of the project is to strengthen existing marriages and to prepare unmarried couples for successful healthy marriages.

Healthy Family Initiative
Healthy Family Initiative
7500 Beechnut
Suite 366
Houston, TX 77074
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Healthy Family Initiative plans to provide Marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use a pilot program called "Loving Couples Loving Children" as a model to essentially reach out to 100 couples per year by capitalizing on the "magic moment" of birth, when the majority of unmarried parents’ marriage hopes are high and romantic ties are strong, to connect couples to a comprehensive package of healthy relationship/healthy marriage education and services and broader family support services.

Healthy Marriage
Child, Inc.
818 E. 53rd street
Austin, TX 78751
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Through the Healthy Marriage program, Child, Inc. plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples. Some of the goals of the program are provide family support services and monthly enrichment programs; some of the program’s objectives are to improve communication skills, improve marital satisfaction and improve child-parent relationships. In addition to providing marriage curriculum Child, Inc. plans to offer booster sessions and family support services. The program is aiming to serve 144 couples who have children under age 15 in its initial year

Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project
Avance, Inc.
4281 Dacoma
Houston, TX 77092
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The AVANCE – Houston Chapter plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Some of the objectives of the Healthy Marriage Demonstration Project are to promote a positive relationship in married couples, help couples improve communication skills and assist participants in clarifying their value systems. Activities to meet the objectives are four-month marriage enhancement modules and recreational family outings. Some of the outcomes the program expects are improved marital satisfaction, longer lasting marriages and increased problem-solving skills.

Healthy Marriage Program / Fortilacion Familia
AVANCE - Corpus Christi Chapter
1509 Tarlton
Corpus Christi, TX 78415
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Strengthening Marriages Program of Corpus Christi plans to provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to married couples who meet Federal poverty guidelines. The Corpus Christi Chapter of AVANCE, Inc. has worked with the Austin and Houston, Texas chapters to better gauge what activities would be successful prior to the grant period. Some of the objectives of the Strengthening Marriages Program are to help couples increase communication skills to reduce conflict, understand the value of interpersonal relationships and assist fathers in becoming more active in childrearing. Some of the activities to meet the objectives are weekly interactive sessions to teach healthy marriage skills, community support services and classes on financial literacy.

Healthy Parents, Healthy Families, Healthy Children
Families Under Urban and Social Attack, Inc., Austin, TX
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP

Hispanic Active Relationships Project (HARP) in Cameron County
Active Relationship Center
25 Highland Park Villiage
Dallas, TX 75205
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: HARP will serve 1472 couples over five years. Active Relationships seminars will comprise the core marriage education content; other activities will include peer support groups, mentoring and weekend marriage retreats. The project will be launched by a multi-media public awareness campaign which, in addition to branding, marketing and public relations components will present annual events including a play, golf tournament and a Matrimonio Magnifico event to showcase healthy marriages and identify potential mentor couples.

Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT)
Plano, Texas
888-267-1206
The Institute for Life Coach Training, (formerly Therapist University), is the first-of-its-kind training institute that specializes in training psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors and helping professionals in building a successful coaching practice.

LIFE Matters Healthy Marriage Program
Friendship West Baptist Church
2020 West Wheatland Rd.
Dallas, TX 75232
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program funds will be used to establish an outreach and support program; a media campaign; a marriage education and training program for married and engaged couples for over 1,000 couples per year; a relationship skills program for 2,500 teens per year; and a marriage enhancement and preservation program.

Mi Carrera Familia Unida
Young Women's Christian Association of San Antonio, Texas
314 North Hackberry #101
San Antonio, TX 78202
YWCA plans to provide education in high schools on the value of marriage, relationship skills and budgeting, as well as to provide pre-marital education and marriage skills training for engaged couples or couples and individuals interested in marriage. 200 high school students will be served at 5 high schools using the Active Relationships for Young Adults (ARYA) curriculum during weekly sessions with groups of 6-15 students. 150 individuals will be served with the 12 hour Active Relationships Center (ARC) curriculum offered in Spanish and English to provide pre-marital education and marriage skills training.

Nueces County Community Action Agency
101 SPID
Corpus Christi, TX 78405
Grants funded for healthy relationship sessions are for couples and singles in the community including premarital, TANF recipients, and Head Start parents. The workshops range from 8 hours to 20 hours of education. The skills based workshops focus on communication, conflict resolution, financial management, and parenting skills. Healthy relationship workshops are also offered free for youth ages 12-17. In these sessions, youth learn how to build self-esteem and how to make appropriate choices. Incentives are offered to participants who complete the classes. These workshops are FREE to the community and FUN to attend. Come and build your long lasting healthy relationship.

Pat Love & Associates: Become a Certified Love Educator™!
Pat Love & Associates
4509 Foster Ranch Road
Austin, Texas 78735
512-892-5474
Distinguished professor, Certified Love Educator, Pat Love, Ed.D. is known for warmth, humor and commitment to learning. For more than twenty-five years, she has contributed to relationship education and personal development through her books, articles, training programs, speaking and media appearances. Dr. Love has published several professional articles, been featured in many professional books and developed relationships education media and materials being used nationally and internationally.

The Por Los Ninos Project
Family Service and the Division for Families and Children of the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Office of Child Support Enforcement – SIP
This project proposes to test the efficacy of collaborative intervention strategies to improve child support performance and outcomes for children and families by improving parenting, co-parenting skills, and encouraging healthy marriage. The target population is low-income and unwed couples.

Strengthening Marriages In Texas
Texas Health and Human Services (Avance)
Childrens' Bureau
Strengthening Marriages, translated as "Fortaleciendo Matrimonios", is a project designed to provide Hispanic couples in Head Start/Early Head Start programs and Child Protective Services with a four months series of program services aimed at relationship maintenance and improvement. The program includes 16 lessons during this four month period designed to provide Hispanic couples in the Houston area with skills for overcoming challenges faced by married couples. The project will use the “Family Building Communities” curriculum and will serve 105 couples per year. The project will also address extended family cultural issues that impact Hispanic married couples such as in-laws who reside in the home with the married couples.

Strong Families Dallas
Alliance for North Texas Healthy Effective Marriages (ANTHEM)
1201 Elm street
Dallas, TX 75270
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to deliver marriage education services to 8,360 married and engaged couples and persons interested in marriage, 5,910 non-married expectant parents and 3,445 high school students over the project period. ANTHEM will also launch a public awareness campaign to reach all Dallas-area residents.

Texas Healthy Marriage Development Program
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
909 W. 45th St.
Building # 2, mailcode 2010
Austin, TX 78751
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Weekly workshops will be provided to 600 low-income unmarried couples considering marriage, pregnant TANF clients and her partner, and married and unmarried Head Start and TANF couples annually. In addition, a targeted public advertising campaign will be used to recruit program workshop participants and to educate the target population about the value of healthy marriage and its effects on child well-being. Curricula used will be: Within Our Reach and Within My Reach, two programs based on PREP but tailored to the needs and education level of low-income couples and individuals.

VOW Marriage Program
Longview Wellness Center, Inc.
1107 E Marshall Ave
Longview, TX 75602
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to educate 5,400 high school and college students in the Soul Mate curriculum annually; engage 800 couples annually in the Prepare/Enrich marriage program; hold enrichment weekends for 96 married couples annually; assist 288 couples annually who have high conflict marriages; and engage 50 mentor couples annually who will work with high-risk couples.

Utah

Teaching Healthy Marriage Skills to Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Couples in Stepfamilies
Utah State University
2705 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-2705
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: In collaboration with family service organizations in northern Utah, USU will offer educational classes at ten sites educating/teaching low-income couples in stepfamilies the skills required to prepare for re-marriage and/or marriage enhancement in their relationships in the context of blending/stepfamily living.

Vermont

Refugee Healthy Marriage Program
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Office of Refugee Resettlement

Virginia

Assistance to Refugee Couples
Boat People SOS, Inc.
6066 Leesburg Pike, Suite 100
Falls Church, VA 22041
Vietnamese view family matters as private and do not discuss personal health, family violence, or marital distress even with parents, children or siblings, let alone professionals. BPSOS has adapted the PREP curriculum to Vietnamese culture, and translated it. Assistance to Refugee Couples (ARC) provides marriage enrichment and family wellness services in hopes that Vietnamese couples will become equipped and receive assistance to better manage their marriages and families in healthy ways. To learn more about our program, please visit: machsongmedia.com.

A Center For Relationships
316 Commerce St.
Alexandria, Virginia, 22314
703-549-9554
The Center offers seminars, workshops and classes on relationship skills, personality styles, emotional healing, as well as individual, couples, family, stepfamily and child therapy.

The Family Education Center (FEC)
The Family Education Center
PO Box 15596
Richmond, VA 23227-5596
(804) 261-7979
The husband and wife team of David Hulburt and Sherry Finneran founded the Family Education Center (FEC) in 1975, to help individuals, families, and organizations develop and practice the skills necessary to build and nourish their relationships. Dave and Sherry practice what they teach about marriage and family. They approach the business of family education with the same techniques and skills that they apply to their own marriage and family. They were married in 1975, the same year they established FEC, and have continued as Co-Directors of both since that time.

First Things First of Greater Richmond, Virginia
5200 Grove Ave
Richmond, VA 23226-1633
(804) 288-3431 x-11
FTF is a not-for-profit organization "dedicated to strengthening families through education, collaboration and mobilization." FTF is a community resource that collaborates with and is supported by a broad cross-section of community organizations, groups and individuals. We are modeled after a similar partnership forged in Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 1997.

FIT Relationships
Granato Counseling Services, Inc.
1593 Springhill Road
Suite 300
Vienna, VA 22182
Allowable Activity: Marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples (#5). Organization Description: Granato Counseling Services, Inc., which is also known as The Granato Group, is a woman-owned professional counseling and consulting service established in 1999. The organization has developed its own trademarked relationship education program, FIT Relationships, and that curriculum has been used by Friendship Public Charter School and the US Air Force. Additionally, The Granato Group has worked with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Emergency Management Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Education by providing counseling services. Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Healthy Marriage Education program will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Some of the goals of the organization are to help couples enhance marital friendship, build emotional connections, manage conflict and learn active listening skills. The Granato Group will provide marriage education through 10 sessions of the FIT Curriculum, booster sessions, family social events, and marriage coaching sessions

Healthy Marriage Mentoring Program
Bethany Christian Services of VA
10378 B Democracy Lane
Fairfax, VA 22030
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Bethany Christian Services of VA plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant father. They will use the "Marriage Savers" curriculum as a cultural model to essentially reach out to 75 couples per year by teaching with a classroom style environment. In addition, they will deploy seasoned couples with 10-15 years of marriage to mentor these couples.

PAIRS Pre-Marital Workshop
Reston, VA
703-476-5644
For over 25 years, this internationally acclaimed program has taught those really important skills we never learned in school: how to create and sustain happy, passionate, long-lasting marriages. PAIRS’ classroom approach includes dynamic, humorous, eye-opening interactive exercises and interesting concepts. Participants are enthused and enjoy workshops that provide them effective skills they can use daily with all their close relationships. PAIRS’ learning-by-doing approach accelerates positive change.

Washington

The Greater Yakima Valley Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Community Demonstration
Washington Division of Child Support Enforcement, Yakima, WA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver
This program will provide marriage education integrated with child support information in order to encourage healthy marriage. The project will use PREPARE ENRICH and PREP marriage education curricula. The target population is low-income and Hispanic population. Project Period: June 3, 2005 to May 30, 2010.

Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant for the Northwest Marriage Institute
Northwest Marriage Institute
237 NE Chkalov Dr.
Vancouver, WA 98684
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grant for the Northwest Marriage Institute will serve low-income married couples by providing them with marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs. Some of the objectives of the program are to offer successful marriage education workshops to couples and help married couples apply the marriage skills that are taught. Desired outcomes include an increased number of low-income couples acquiring the skills for a healthy marriage and an increased availability to low-income couples of opportunities for continued training. The program will implement the following activities: recruiting couples in the targeted area for marriage training; providing relationship skills training in communication and conflict resolution; and providing opportunities for booster sessions to reinforce the skills that have been learned.

Lakewood (Washington) Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Coalition
Washington Division of Child Support Enforcement, Lakewood, WA
Office of Child Support Enforcement – 1115 Waiver
This project provides healthy marriage education integrated with child support information to couples or individuals with children. The curricula may include PAIRS, PREPARE ENRICH, and PREP. A coalition of private and public organizations (e.g., community- and faith-based organizations, in-hospital and other pre-and post-natal programs and a local military base are being organized to recruit participants. Project Period: June 3, 2005 to May 30, 2010.

Lummi Indian Business Council
Lummi Nation Healthy Marriages for Healthy Families
Administration for Native Americans
This is a five year project to develop definitions of Healthy Marriage according to Lummi cultural standards and will provide healthy marriage education to 40 couples per year. A publicity campaign to increase public awareness of the benefits of healthy marriage will also be mobilized. The project will also setup a Healthy Marriage Support Network.

LIRS Family Enrichment Program
Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS)
Office of Refugee Resettlement
The Family Enrichment program helps strengthen marriages and family relationships within refugee communities. At each site, culturally appropriate workshops based on the Power of Two curriculum will be held for refugee populations from a variety of countries. Workshops will focus on developing communication, shared decision-making, and conflict resolution skills, along with financial management and parenting skills. GRANT RECIPIENT(S): Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS) PROJECT PERIOD: September 30, 2006 to September 29, 2011

Marriage Friendly Community
Teen-Aid, Inc.
723 E. Jackson Ave
Spokane, WA 99207
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program funds will be used to equip small communities and rural populations with the skills its residents need to raise the awareness of the value and importance of marriage and reduce the divorce rate in this geographic area. Some of the activities to be implemented are a public advertising campaign to reach all the residents in this target population; presentations to 1,500 local high school students in their Economics and Consumer Science classes to teach relationship skills; to reach 100 non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers to teach them relationship skills; provide marital education classes to 200 pre-marital, 200 married and 50 struggling couples and to provide a marriage mentoring program to a minimum of 50 engaged and/or married couples.

The Premarital Workshop
444 NE Ravenna Blvd Suite 301 Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 227-9822
The Premarital Workshop is based on effective content from major premarital education programs such as PREP (Prevention & Relationship Enhancement Program) and PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills). A strong influence from John Gottman and Michele Weiner-Davis.

Strengthening Adoptive Families Through Education (SAFE)
Children’s Home Society of Washington
Childrens' Bureau
The Children’s Home Society of Washington, in partnership with The Gottman Institute and Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services will provide both intensive and less intensive services to families in Pierce County who have adopted children from the child welfare system. This project is a synthesis of several research-based practices and programs shown to have positive outcomes including: The Gottman Institute’s The Art and Science of Love marriage strengthening curriculum, The Kinship Center’s AFTER Adoption Assistance Wraparound Services and the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center model. By demonstrating the efficacy of providing marriage strengthening services and post-adoption support to these families, the program hopes to create a pilot that can be replicated throughout Washington and in other states.

Wisconsin

Adoption Resources Of Wisconsin
Adoption Resources of Wisconsin
Childrens' Bureau
6682 West Greenfield, Suite 310
Milwaukee, WI 53214
Ph: 414-475-1246
Adoption Resources of Wisconsin will provide an innovative in-depth program focused on strengthening the marital relationship between the parents of the adoptive child(ren). Four key components will be implemented and evaluated: 1) marriage education using a curriculum based on the research of Dr. John Gottman and others; 2) forgiveness therapy curriculum to help parents teach their adopted children the meaning and power of forgiveness in overcoming anger and associated behaviors that may impact the family; 3) respite care and peer support; 4) and for those who choose, connection to the faith-based community to support them through the lifelong journey of adoption. Based on the outcomes, the curriculum will be refined to maximize its effectiveness. This model can then be replicated to improve the success of adoptions from the public child welfare system across the country.

Creating Strong Families
WI Dept. of Workforce Development: BMRLS
Office of Refugee Resettlement
201 East Washington Avenue
P.O. Box 7946
Madison, WI 53707-7946
Telephone: (608) 266-3131
The Creating Strong Families program is designed to support and enhance family relationships among refugee families in Wisconsin, starting in the first year, with Hmong and Somali refugee groups residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and five counties in northeast Wisconsin—Outagamie, Winnebago, Brown, Sheboygan and Manitowoc.

Enhancing Tribal Marriages In Wisconsin
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Childrens' Bureau
The Red Cliff Healthy Relationship/Marriages project will provide relationship services to Native American parents and youth by implementing the OJIBWAY curriculum to families that are referred to the Indian Child Welfare Program. The OJIBWAY curriculum seeks to improve family communication and cohesiveness by addressing the needs of families in terms of reinforcing healthy lifestyles and sustaining positive development within families. The curriculum will address three primary areas via the use of 28 lesson plans: (1) promotion and enhancement of cohesiveness within the family group (2) promotion of healthy attitudes within families and (3) promotion of positive behaviors within families. The project will also serve young couples who are planning to marry and young couples who are pregnant. Other service approaches include the Red Cliff Wellness Curriculum and the Moral Reconation Therapy approach. The project will serve 10 to 20 families, 10 pre-marital couples and 10 pregnant couples per year.

Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Honoring Our Families
Administration for Native Americans
2932 Highway 47 N.
P.O. Box 9
Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538
Phone: 715-588-3324
This is a five year project to establish focus groups at each of the 7 Tribal sites within the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council to provide guidance in curricula development, family recruitment and case management processes. An Interdisciplinary Family Case Management Team (IFCM) will be developed at each Tribal site to help strengthen healthy marriages and relationships of up to 10 families per site per year. The IFCMs will provide relationship and healthy marriage educational workshops and community events.

Healthy Marriage Education / Milwaukee Marriage Partnership
Center for Self-Sufficiency, Inc.
4465 N. Oakloand Ave #200
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program grant funds will be used to conduct a community-wide social marketing campaign that will reach 100,000 people; deliver marriage education to 800 high school-aged youth using "Keys to a Healthy Marriage" curriculum; deliver PREP to 48 TANF-eligible non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers (including new parents); deliver PREP to 158 individuals through 10 one-day Healthy Marriage / relationship enrichment retreats per year; deliver PREP to 120 community college students through peer marriage educators; provide marriage education to a wide-range of people, including incarcerated individuals, engaged, non-married and married; provide marriage mentoring to at least 120 married or pre-marital couples; and provide marriage education to TANF-eligible non-married pregnant women and expectant fathers, to engaged couples, and married couples.

Healthy Marriage Initiative in Wisconsin
Foundation for a Great Marriage
1270 Main Street
Suite 246
Green Bay, WI 54302
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program funds will be used to serve 11 of the 14 most populous counties and 57% of the population in Wisconsin, approximately 3.04 million people. Residents will be informed and given access to opportunities to learn the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy marriages. FGM will use skills-based, research-validated resources and network with leaders in the healthy marriage movement. The allowable activities that will be implemented include: public adverting campaigns (particularly targeted to the Latino population), marriage education in high schools, pre-marital education and marriage skills training (particularly targeted to the Latino population), and divorce reduction programs. The project expects to provide marriage classes to a minimum of 1,620 couples over its five year span.

Healthy Marriage Promotion in Wisconsin
Foundation for a Great Marriage
1270 Main street
Suite 246
Greenbay, WI 54302
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The program funds will be used to serve 11 of the 14 most populous counties and 57% of the population in Wisconsin, approximately 3.04 million people. Residents will be informed and given access to opportunities to learn the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain healthy marriages. FGM will use skills-based, research-validated resources and network with leaders in the healthy marriage movement. The allowable activities that will be implemented include: public adverting campaigns (particularly targeted to the Latino population), marriage education in high schools, pre-marital education and marriage skills training (particularly targeted to the Latino population), and divorce reduction programs. The project expects to provide marriage classes to a minimum of 1,620 couples over its five year span.

Hispanic Multimedia Marriage Seminar
Laugh Your Way America, LLC
4701 Industrial Park Road
Stevens Point, WI 54481
The Hispanic Multimedia Marriage Seminar will provide marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs to low-income married couples. Objectives of the Hispanic Multimedia Marriage Seminar are to help couples through marriage coaching and divorce reduction. Some of the activities that will take place are the viewing of educational videos, interactive role-playing and presentations on the changing roles of men in the Latino culture. A unique feature is that the staff will use humor as a basis for couples opening up as well as feeling more comfortable in the environment.

Reptiles in Love Trainings and Retreats
Madison, Wisconsin
(608)527-3160
Reptiles in Love: Beyond Fight-or-Flight is a workshop for couples, developed out of my many years of working with relationships. I also offer this program as a ten week group in my area. Additionally, therapists may be interested in training seminars on this biological approach to couples treatment.

Retrouvaille: A lifeline for couples with serious problems
501 Donovan Ct Cross Plains, WI 53528
608-798-1912
The word Retrouvaille™ (pronounced re-tro-vi with a long i.) is a French word meaning rediscovery. The program offers tools needed to rediscover a loving marriage relationship. Thousands of couples headed for cold, unloving relationships or divorce have successfully overcome their marriage problems by attending the program. The Retrouvaille Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of 6-12 post-weekend sessions over 3 months. It provides the tools to help put your marriage in order again. The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife. It will give you the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine your lives together in a new and positive way.

Wisconsin Alliance Healthy Marriage
Parents Plus, Inc.
105 High Street
Neenah, WI 54956
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Parents Plus, Inc. plans to provide marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers. They will use a pilot program curriculum called "Keys to a Healthy Marriage" as a model to essentially reach out to 200 couples per year. They will provide 11-lesson class sessions of healthy marriage education classes within a classroom setting.

Wyoming

Wyoming's Smart Stepfamilies
High Country Consulting, LLC
PO 884
Cheynne, WY 82003
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: High Country Consulting will implement and evaluate a marriage enrichment program that will target stepfamilies and couples in second marriages. They will provide marriage preparation, enrichment and divorce reduction services through both community-based and faith-based organizations, using a pilot program as a cultural model to reach out to over 1,250 participants.

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