Parenting
(partial listing)
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.
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.
Children’s Aid Society in Clearfield County
1008 South Second Street
Clearfield, PA 16830
The mission of the Healthy Marriage Program is to provide relationship education and enrichment activities for married couples. Through these efforts, Children’s Aid Society (CAS) will build “Healthy Marriages, Strong Families, and Thriving Communities.” CAS is using Within Our Reach created by Preventative Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP).
Classes are offered six times per year in a variety of formats to meet the needs of busy families. We offer classes on week-day evenings, on Saturday’s and in a weekend retreat format. The evening and Saturday classes offer a meal, free child care and a travel stipend. The weekend retreats offer free overnight accommodation and meals.
In addition, the Healthy Marriage Program offers a year of booster activities to couples who successfully complete the Within Our Reach class. Booster activities are offered for a full year after completion of the class. Booster activities include: date nights, monthly couples support group, a couple’s massage class taught by a certified massage therapist, a money management class, and the Dale Carnegie Program for Married Couples.
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.
The Devotion Program
The Salvation Army, a New York Corporation
Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware
701 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Salvation Army, a New York Corporation 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 as a model to essentially reach out to 100 couples per year by implement the Devotion Program. In addition, the program will use the “Love’s Cradle” curriculum to enhance participants’ relationship skills.
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 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.
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.
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.
