National Summit on Marriage,
Parenting and Families
Materials
- Hampton Proclamation
- Summit Program Book
(Adobe PDF 9.2mb) - NCAAMP Brochure
(Adobe PDF 2.7mb) - Gala Program
(Adobe PDF 3.1mb) - Luncheon Program
(Adobe PDF 600kb) - The Marriage Index and the
Healthy Marriage Brochure
(Adobe PDF 488kb) - The Black Families
Transformation Mural
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The historical and current-day strengths of Black marriages, parenting and families and the essential and foundational role that they have played in black child, adult and community well-being and uplift are a testament to their significance. These strengths coupled with the crisis now evident in many African American family relationships are presenting Americans with extraordinary opportunities and responsibilities to ensure that these marriage and family relationships are encouraged and supported.
The mission of NCAAMP is to strengthen families in the African American community by helping African Americans gain essential knowledge, skills and other resources required for building and sustaining healthy marriages and practicing effective parenting. NCAAMP will accomplish this goal through
- Conducting, archiving, and disseminating of scholarly research on African American marriages, parenting and families;
- Significantly increasing the number of African Americans with undergraduate and graduate training in marriage and family;
- Providing African Americans and those serving African American populations with current information about what it takes to have a healthy marriage and family and access to resources that might help them to have healthy marriages and families;
- Promoting values and behaviors that increase healthy personal development (including character and personal and civic responsibility) among African American youth and young adults, while providing them with the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about healthy relationships (including skills and knowledge that can help them eventually form and sustain healthy marriages and families);
- Increasing the public awareness of the status and value of healthy African American marriages and parent-child relationships and of the importance of effective cultural and societal supports for these families.
Please help us realize our vision of a country where most African American children are born into intact families and raised by their married and biological parents in loving, nurturing and safe homes and where most married African Americans enjoy loving, peaceful and stable marriages that inspire and support their personal development, empowerment and human dignity. To make a contribution securely online using your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover card, please click here.
The NCAAMP is a component of the Department of Psychology at the prestigious historically Black College – Hampton University. The Department of Psychology consistently graduates the largest number of students at Hampton each year and the largest number of African American students in Psychology in the country.