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The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Program Welcomes You and your Spouse, Join us Today!
 

    

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Welcome Back and Happy 2010 !

 

The Hispanic Healthy Marriages Program invites you to participate in our upcoming sessions, register now!

Purpose

The focus of this initiative is to help Hispanic couples to gain access to marriage education services, so that they can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain a healthy marriage for the overall well-being of their children. This Program is in response to the National Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative, and the couple's participation is entirely voluntary.

 

 Classes and workshops

  1. Elements of a Healthy Marriage
  2. Stages in a Couple’s Relationship
  3. Communication
  4. Anger Management
  5. Stress Management
  6. Peer Pressure
  7. Credit and Debt Management
  8. Values
  9. Problem Solving
  10. Self-esteem
  11. The Parenting Factor
  12. Media Influence
  13. How to Buy a Home
  14. Conflict Resolution
  15. Domestic Violence
  16. Effective Time Management

 

 

Outcomes and services:

  • Weekly sessions

  • 2 Hour interactive presentations

  • An approved curriculum covering 16 topics

  • Male & Female Presenters

  • Presentations by other community services

  • Early Childhood Education for the young ones who receive the
     same topics as their parents adapted to their age

  • Field trips

  • Refreshments

  • Mileage reimbursement

  • Certificate of completion

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 We provide diverse additional services available to couples enrolled in the program: Child care, youth support, and also family orientation with Dr. Samuel Puccio. We also offer light meals or snacks and mileage reimbursement up to 12 miles

 

 

What's New!

 

 

Past Events

  • The Healthy Marriage Programs I and II, celebrated their graduations June 26 2007!

    See the Photo Album Here!

    Please be patient it may take a few minutes to download

     

  • The Hispanic Healthy Marriage II, celebrated their graduation January 17th 2008. Please visit and enjoy the photo album and story.

    PHOTO ALBUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Place and schedules

Group I

The sessions of this group are open to current or past participants of the AVANCE Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. Parents enrolled with AVANCE Programs are encouraged to sign up.

Group II

The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative will start new sessions on Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. starting the last week of August 2009.


Sessions are open to residents of the following zip codes only: 77038, 77022, 77076, 77018, 77080, 77092 and 77009

Place: Dacoma Center,
          4301 Dacoma St.
          Houston, TX. 77092

 

  Facilitators and contact information

 To enroll please call 713-812-0033

 

 

 

Studies and Reports on Marriage
Download

With This Ring ...
A National Survey on Marriage in America

Findings from a national telephone survey of 1,503 Americans age 18 and older conducted late in 2003 and early in 2004 that asked questions about attitudes toward marriage, aspirations for marriage, and past experiences with marriage.
Full Study (3 MB)
View Individual Reports from 25 Different States
 

Marriage and Mental Health in Adults and Children (66 KB)
released February 2007

The Other Marriage Penalty. A New Proposal to Eliminate the Marriage Penalty for Low-Income Americans (83 KB)
released September 2006

Family Structure, Father Closeness, and Drug Abuse
Full Study

Family Structure, Father Closeness, and Delinquency
Full Study

Protectors or Perpetrators? Fathers, Mothers, and Child Abuse and Neglect (68 KB)
released January 2008

 

Courtesy of Fatherhood.org

 

 

   


"A couple who make a good marriage, and raise healthy, morally competent children, are serving the world's future more directly and surely than any political leader, though they never utter a public word."

- Wendell Berry

 
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