Welcome to the proceedings for the Connecting Marriage Research to Practice Conference, held in June 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC. The Conference was jointly sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Jordan Institute for Families at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. It was a vibrant forum for scholars, practitioners, faith- and community-based organizations, and healthy marriage coalitions to explore emerging research on the African American family experience, and to engage in discussion around sustaining and strengthening African American families and marriages.
The African American Healthy Marriage Initiative promotes culturally competent strategies for fostering healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, improving child well-being, and strengthening families within the African American community.
