Links

The sites listed here are not under the direction of The Center for Relationship Education (CRE) and we have no control over the content of the sites. This listing does not serve as an endorsement by CRE of the views expressed in any of these sites.

NARME - National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education

The MISSION of the National Association for Relationship and Marriage Education is to foster education for healthy marriages, responsible fathers, and strong families in America

 

Abstinence Works / NAEA
The NAEA exists to serve, support and represent individuals and organizations in the practice of abstinence education.

Administration for Children and Family
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.

ACF Healthy Marriage Initiative
To help couples, who have chosen marriage for themselves, gain greater access to marriage education services, on a voluntary basis, where they can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to form and sustain a healthy marriage.

National Abstinence Education Association
The NAEA exists to serve, support, and represent individuals/organizations in the work of abstinence education.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence.

Institute for Youth Development
IYD is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that promotes a comprehensive message to youth in the U.S. and around the world to avoid five harmful risk behaviors that are inextricably linked: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco and violence.

The Medical Institute

The Medical Institute for Sexual Health (MI) is a nonprofit (501c3) medical, educational, and research organization. MI was founded to confront the global epidemics of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

National Abstinence Clearinghouse
The National Abstinence Clearinghouse was formed to provide a central location where materials and training to effectively convey the abstinence-until-marriage message could be provided. The mission is to promote the appreciation for and practice of sexual abstinence (purity) through the distribution of age-appropriate, factual and medically-accurate materials.

National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA)
The NAEA exists to serve, support and represent individuals and organizations in the practice of abstinence education.

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The National Campaign's goal is to improve the lives and future prospects of children and families and, in particular, to help ensure that children are born into stable, two-parent families who are committed to and ready for the demanding task of raising the next generation.

National Fatherhood Initiative
National Fatherhood Initiative’s mission is to improve the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers.

National Healthy Marriage Resource Center
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC) is a national resource and clearinghouse for information and research relating to healthy marriages. The NHMRC also provides training and technical assistance presentations and documents for federally funded Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI) grantees.

PREP, Inc.
PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) 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.

Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 Developmental Assets.

Smart Marriages
Marriage is the foundation of the family and the family is the foundation of society: "if we strengthen marriage, we strengthen the family, we strengthen the children and we strengthen the community. If your goal is to help improve the world, marriage is as good a place as any to start." - Diane Sollee, Grand Rapids Family Summit, 1998. Smart Marriages provides resources and connections to experts in the field of marriage.
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Funding for this project was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant #90FE0051