The Education and Training Component of L. I. F. E. Matters provides research-based relationship education for expecting couples and recent parents of singles, premarital, engaged couples, and couples interested in marriage. The Fragile Families Relationship Enrichment Workshops address the needs and sensitivity of expecting couples and recent parents. Training topics include:

• Healthy Marriage Skills
• Relationship Skills
• Parenting Skills
• Money Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Job and Career Advancement 

Referral and Support Services are available to families and individuals who are in crisis or in need of intervention. Support and Referral Services help empower individuals and families and reduce family stress.

The Marriage and Family Conference is an annual community conference promoting the benefits of healthy marriages and relationships in the African American Community.
  
Our curriculum for the Marriage preparation classes are based on the following central ideas:

Make marriage a top goal for your life; Learn relationship skills;

Get as much education as you can before you get married;

Delay sexual activity until marriage; Marry in your twenties or older;

Wait to have a child until after you are married and at least 20 years old;

Be picky when you choose your husband or wife;

Think twice before you decide to live with someone outside of marriage;

Build a relationship with an adult you can trust and work on strengthening that relationship; and,

Before you marry, take a premarital education course with your partner. 		   

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