Family Frameworks

Family Frameworks: A non-profit organization focused on making lasting changes in our community through relationships by transforming minds in such a way that if flows to the heart and becomes who they are. Our community’s success is directly related to the relationships within it and the way we treat ourselves and others. It is our mission to engages the future generations of our community through relevant and thought-provoking discussions, centering on the importance of wise decision-making, intrinsic value, and the pursuit of healthy families and relationships as crucial for optimal quality of life and their success as working citizens in our community.

“Family Frameworks believes communities are strongest when relationships are healthiest.”

• Healthy Choices Class: In partnership with every Whitfield and Murray Co. high school and two Gordon County High Schools, we teach how to use critical thinking to educate 9th grade students about their choices and cultural surroundings and how that affects their present and future. The program is by the Dibble Institute’s Healthy Choices Healthy Relationships It is a seven-week program that focuses on relationships and influences in teenagers lives. Each lesson is very interactive with discussions, videos, and activities. Our focus is teaching students how to set goals and how the impact that every relationship they form affects these goals. This is done solely through trained volunteers in the community. It is a commitment to teach one hour a week for 7 weeks. We are very flexible and we work with our volunteer’s work schedule. We provide all the teaching information, training, and material.

• Fantasy VS Reality: This is our newest program, born out of request by community programs and students for more in-depth discussions. Fantasy VS Reality is a class about grounding oneself by showing God’s ways are reality not fantasy through cultural Evidence. The classes are offered throughout the year and focus on different topics. Each class is five sessions focusing on evidence based research and cultural evidence to discuss the fantasy that society portrays versus the reality of God’s design and the true desires of our hearts.

• Children In Between: Divorce happens and is sometimes necessary. Children In Between is a court approved class for parents about the effects of divorce on their children and the impact their parenting choices will have on their children’s future. It is an evidenced based program that has been proven to decrease the traumatic affects divorce has on children. Topics covered include; money issues, long distance parenting, quizzing children about the other parent, putting down the other parent, children carrying messages, and never married parents. Classes are by appointment.

• Marriage Mentoring: Personalized experience for engaged or newly married couples to walk alongside a strong married couple for accountability and guidance for a lasting marriage.