Adoption Marriage Organizations
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
112 South Alfred Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3061
The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) is the professional association for the field of marriage and family therapy, representing marriage and family therapists in the United States, Canada, and abroad. The AAMFT facilitates research, theory development, and education. It also develops standards for graduate education and training, clinical supervision, professional ethics, and the clinical practice of marriage and family therapy. |
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
1015 15th Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
The Center for Law and Social Policy's work is concentrated on family policy and access to civil legal assistance for low-income families. Family policy projects include welfare reform, child welfare, and couples and marriage.
Major Program(s)/Initiatives(s):
- Child Welfare - http://www.clasp.org/publications.php?id=5#0
CLASP focuses on ways the child welfare and TANF fields can work collaboratively to help families and works to ensure a comprehensive range of services that low-income children and their parents need.
- Couples and Marriage - http://www.clasp.org/publications.php?id=6
CLASP focuses on a "Marriage-Plus" perspective, which has two main goals centered on the well-being of children: (1) to help more children grow up with their two biological, married parents whose relationship is healthy; (2) when this isn’t possible, to help parents--whether unmarried, cohabiting, separated, divorced, or remarried--cooperate better in raising their children.
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Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education (CMFCE) Smart Marriages
5310 Belt Road NW
Washington, DC 20015-1961
The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education (CMFCE), Smart Marriages, is dedicated to making marriage education more widely available to the public. The Coalition serves as an information exchange and clearinghouse to help couples, professionals, clergy, and lay educators to locate marriage and relationship education courses, training programs and resources that promote the effectiveness of marriage education courses.
In addition, CMFCE Smart Marriages supports community marriage education initiatives, legislation and research that will promote the effectiveness of marriage education courses and increase their availability in the community. |
National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network (NERMEN)
University of Georgia
225 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602
The National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network's (NERMEN) mission is to provide research-based resources and promote partnerships to advance the knowledge and practice in relationship and marriage education.
The Network is an affiliate of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). |
National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC)
1620 Eye Street NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages.
The mission of the NHMRC is to help individuals and couples who choose marriage for themselves gain the knowledge and skills necessary to build and sustain a healthy marriage.
The NHMRC is administered under a cooperative agreement with the Office of Family Assistance within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
National Marriage Project
Rutgers University
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue -- Lucy Stone Hall B217
Piscataway, NJ 08854
The mission of the National Marriage Project is to provide research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child well-being.
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