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The Alabama Marriage Handbook: Keys to a Healthy Marriage
We'd love to see this easy to read, comprehensive healthy marriage resource in every Alabama home. The handbook is a 44- page magazine-style publication filled with the most up-to-date information and research available to help you make your marriage thrive.
The Alabama Marriage Handbook is handed out in every probate office in the state to everyone getting a marriage license.
Topics Covered:
- Money
- Work and Family
- Home and House-Care Responsibilities
- Children
- In-Laws
- Remarriage
- Substance Abuse and Other Addictions
- Mental Health Problems
- Infidelity
- Domestic Violence
If you'd like to see a handbook right now, you can download a copy here.
Order hard copies at no charge except postage, from our secure online processing site, the Auburn Marketplace, by following this link. Please note that hard copies of the handbook come packaged in sets of 5, 25, and 60.
The Healthy Marriage Handbook
If you don't live in Alabama and would like a Healthy Marriage Handbook for your organization, this is the version to choose. All the great research-based content is still there - we've just removed the special references to Alabama.
About the Healthy Marriage Handbook
Strong, healthy, long-lasting marriages don't just happen on their own. They happen when two people are intentional about their marriage. Research has established that certain key elements are associated with healthy relationships and healthy marriages, and they can be learned!
This colorful 44-page resource is an educational "handbook" for a healthy marriage. It is designed to share information learned from studying healthy marriages. Helpful tips as well as additional publications, resources, and Web sites are provided in a reader-friendly format. Useful in family and child programs and services. Useful in premarital and marriage enrichment programs.
Price is $2.50 each for up to 999 copies or $1.58 each for 1,000 or more copies. Follow this link to order the Healthy Marriage Handbook.
Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative Newsletters
These monthly newsletters are electronically mailed to our community partners, marriage educators and other professionals who work to improve marriage and families in Alabama. Click here to read each issue.
Love Notes
These one-page downloads cover a variety of topics related to creating and sustaining a healthy marriage. Use them as handouts in marriage education classes, as supplements to your marketing campaigns, as inclusions in mailings. Send them to your friends and family too! The content is research-based and applied in nature. Click here for a comprehensive list of Love Notes.
Other Resources
- Publicity Release Template: Hot off the presses! Our ACHMI marketing specialists have created a template for you to use when you are writing press releases or seeking other marketing contacts.
Research and facts: Access current research related to couple and marital relationships, relationship and marital enrichment programming, and more.
- Selected newspaper articles: Jeremy Walden and Joanne Kehoe of Circle of Care Center for Families in Valley, AL have generously provided these articles as samples and inspiration for other marriage educators.
- Education Programs and Materials: Locate a wide selection of research-based relationship and marital enrichment educational curricula, newsletters, fact sheets and web sites that you can use in your relationship and marriage education programming.
- Organizations/Associations: identify more resources on relationship and marriage enrichment from these other established organizations and associations in Alabama and across the United States.
- Coalition Building: Online materials, articles, and books available to support the development of healthy marriage coalitions and assist communities in building capacity to support healthy marriages.
