About Healthy Families, Healthy Children

The Healthy Families, Healthy Children Initiative project at WVU-ES provides relationship skills training programs for both married, single, and cohabiting couples. The core curriculum of these training programs consists of:

• Relationship education for married couples and those considering marriage
• Relationship education for low-income couples
• Relationship training for cohabiting couples
• Education to engage absent fathers

County Coalitions

The WVU-ES Healthy Families, Healthy Children Initiative provides the monies, support, resources, and oversight necessary to provide the programs in cooperating counties throughout West Virginia. The 19 counties partnering with the WVU Extension Service to provide marriage education and relationship skills training programs in their locales include:

Our Mission

The Mission of the West Virginia Healthy Families, Healthy Children Initiative is to promote activities that support and enhance the well-being of West Virginia families and children through the development and maintenance of marriage and family skills education.

Objectives

• Providing relationship education to promote healthy families and healthy marriages.
• Enhancing the well-being of West Virginia families and children through development of positive, healthy, and nurturing family environments.
• Developing and supporting a “grassroots” level community involvement to support and encourage strong families.
• Educating youth and young adults on how to develop and maintain healthy relationships while dating, engaged, and preparing for marriage.
• Promoting public awareness to communities on the value of healthy marriages.

This program is being presented with financial assistance as a grant from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and WVU Extension Service Healthy Families, Healthy Children Initiative.

Programs and activities offered by the West Virginia University Extension Service are available to all persons without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, veteran status, political beliefs, sexual orientation, national origin, and marital or family status.