National Association of Marriage Enhancement Unveils Marriage Mobile



April 23 2005 NAME The National Association of Marriage Enhancement whose national headquarters is in Phoenix Arizona will unveil its Marriage Mobile for the national media in the Nation's capital Many inner city and impoverished rural communities are underserved when it comes to marriage strengthening services The Marriage Mobile is a 48 foot semi tractortrailer retrofit to serve as a rolling counseling center and marital education classroom The Marriage Mobile will travel to these hard to reach communities where social pressures are often tearing marriages apart and conduct marriage and communications skills workshops provide free premarital workshops couplesincrisis counseling anger management communications skills money management workshops and advertise upcoming marriage skills and strengthening programs The four color decorated side of the Marriage Mobile with large graphics and images of couples provides for a fine photoopportunity Tours of the interior will be provided In order to encourage States to strengthen marriages Congress stipulated as part of the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation that the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF block grant to states be either directly or indirectly related to promoting healthy marriages Some states created fatherhood or parenting programs Arizona created a Marriage and Communications Skills commission and allocated $1 million of TANF block grant money towards Marriage and Communications Skills programs NAME was one of pioneers of this program being selected as one of the program providers by the State of Arizona Over a thousand couples have attended NAME marriage strengthening workshops in Arizona NAME's focus is to reach the community with marriage strengthening programs and resources NAME provides effective proven tools for reaching out to the community Weve created strategies of marketing advertisement and public awareness campaigns to help reach the community There are more than 180 NAME Centers in thirtyfive states and in ten countries and NAME training has certified over 400 Certified Marriage Specialist couples worldwide More than 20000 couples have attended NAME conferences and seminars When Thursday April 21 2005 1000 - 1100 am Where The National Mall 3rd Street SW between Jefferson Madison Washington DC Who Dr Leo Godzich Founder President NAME Bill Coffin Special Assistant for Marriage Education Administration for Children and Families HHS Contact Christina Estrada Gordon C James Public Relations 202 2931988 For additional information please visit httpwwwnameonlinenet



National Association of Marriage Enhancement Unveils Marriage Mobile