Advent Source Family Ministries Leadership Resources

NAD Family Ministries The mission of NAD Family Ministries is to develop resources, coordinate and promote training events, and provide networking opportunities for those who work on behalf of families within their division.

Adventist Plusline PlusLine is committed to providing live ministry support to active Seventh-day Adventist church members, pastors and church leaders throughout the North American Division. As the official helpdesk for general church and ministry information, PlusLine’s duties include the collection and transmission of information related to functions that are nurture and outreach related.

Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence The Center is an interreligious educational resource addressing issues of sexual and domestic violence. Their goal is to engage religious leaders on the task of ending abuse, their emphasis is on education and prevention.

The Dougy Center - The National Center for Grieving Children and Families The mission of The Dougy Center is to provide to families loving support in a safe place where children, teens, and their families who are grieving a death can share their experience as they move through their healing process. Through our National Center for Grieving Children and Families, we also provide support and training locally, nationally and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children and teens in grief.

Family.com An online magazine with great resources, activities, crafts, cooking tips, recipes, etc.

KidsPeace: The National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis KidsPeace gives kids and their families peace through the nation's most comprehensive range of mental and behavioral health treatment programs, crisis intervention services and public education initiatives. KidsPeace, a private, not-for-profit organization, helps families help kids anticipate and avoid crisis whenever possible.

KidsPeace: Intensive Treatment Family A temporary foster care program for children from families in crisis.

The National Marriage Project The mission of the National Marriage Project is to strengthen the institution of marriage by providing research and analysis that informs public policy, educates the American public, and focuses attention on a problem of enormous scope and consequence.

The Religion, Culture, and Family Project The Religion, Culture, and Family Project seeks to address the contemporary situation of American families from a range of theological, historical, legal, biblical, and cultural perspectives.

Smart Marriages The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education

Parentsoup.com Parentsoup.com is a site with parenting news, articles, resources, parenting bulletin board, parent poll . . .

goshen.net A good source for Christian family/individual resources available on the Internet. Links to other websites are categorized by themes.

Institute for Prevention of Addictions The Institute for Prevention of Addictions, established in1984 as the Institute of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, is housed at Andrews University. The purpose of the Institute is to combat various forms of addiction.

Focus on the Family Focus on the Family has become an international organization with more than 74 different ministries. They produce broadcasts, magazines sent to more than 2.3 million people a month, award-winning books, films and videos. Focus also offers professional counseling and referrals to a network of therapists, and addresses public policy and cultural issues.

Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program PREP is one of the most comprehensive and well respected programs for couples in the world. It is a research-based, skills building curriculum designed to help partners get to the heart of problems and connect with each other instead of pushing each other away. PREP emphasizes strategies geared toward lowering risk factors and strategies for raising protective factors to help marriages succeed. It is designed for premarital or marital couples.

The National Marriage Encounter The mission of National Marriage Encounter is to promote and encourage marriage and family life by offering Marriage Encounter weekends and a support community. National Marriage Encounter enables people to discover God's vision of marriage and family life and spiritual diversity.