All the sessions and programs presented at Smart Marriages can, and are, being
used in the Black Community. Listed below are curricula specifically targeted for
working with African Americans.

Plan to join the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative
Roundtables on Thursday and Friday mornings, 7:30am. Bring a bagel and coffee
and learn what others are doing in their settings. Just show up, no registration necessary.
Hosted by Diann Dawson, director of the African American Healthy Marriage
Initiative. See room locator at conference.

These sessions were recorded live at the
11th Annual 2007 Smart Marriages Conference and are available on
DVD, CD or MP3 at 800-241-7785 or at
http://www.iplaybacksmartmarriages.com

CDs $15 each or order 12 or more and they're $12.50 each.
MP3 Downloads are $9.95 each.
DVDs are available of the Keynote sessions - $29.95

P-3 Keynote: Smart Marriages Impact Award recipient:
Black Marriage Day - Fri June 29, on DVD, CD or MP3
Nisa Muhammad
Black Marriage Day spearheaded and anchors the growing national movement
that invites the Black Community to reconsider marriage. It brings a wealth
of marriage strengthening resources to the people – to those most in need
and, yet, who have had the least access. More and more community and faith
organizations, grass roots activists, and lay educators are joining the
ranks, determined to make a difference. Learn how you and your community can
get on board.

807
Celebrating Black Marriages: Arusi Style
Andrew and Terri Lyke
Experience rituals and symbols of the African American
Christian community to make your marriage all that it can
be - define your marriage mission and path. Married, engaged,
dating or singles.

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The sessions listed below were recorded live at the
10th Annual 2006 Smart Marriages Conference and are available on
DVD, CD or MP3 at 800-241-7785 or at
http://www.iplaybacksmartmarriages.com

CDs $15 each or order 12 or more and they're $12.50 each.
MP3 Downloads are $9.95 each.
DVDs are available of the Keynote sessions - $29.95

756-P2
Keynote: Message to Our Sons**** - on DVD, CD, MP3
Rozario Slack, DMin
Today's young men need their fathers and their elders to step up to the plate
and tell them the truth. They need their fathers and elders to stop standing
silently by and letting them continue to make critical mistakes. Men must tell
their sons, nephews, friends, and brothers that it takes a real man to create a
high-quality, life-long marriage and family. That there is no greater or more
manly accomplishment. Old men must teach young men that marriage is the glue,
the crucial factor if we are to save the village. This is what men must do.

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Plus for a quick review of programs, issues and the collected wisdom on Black Marriage and
Families from past Smart Marriages Conferences, order the very SPECIAL package "Strengthening
Marriage in the Black Community - 15 sessions: 10 DVD and 5 CD presentations for ONLY $89
($315 if purchased individually). Order package #75-bc1 at 800-241-7785 or at http://playbacknow.com/cmfce

The 10 DVDs are perfect to show at marriage strengthening events in congregations or communities -
and they will be great discussion/conversation starters. They also make great classroom teaching tapes.
In addition to the DVD videos, the set also includes audio CDs of 5 ninety-minute workshops.

This set has it all - the challenges, history, programs, hip hop, humor, controversy - and a whole bunch
of inspiration and optimism. It lets you sample speakers you might want to invite into your community
for your own events. You'll learn about planting a seed, building with the storm in mind, a whole new
version of active listening and a whole bunch of teaching examples and ideas. One white judge does
sneak in (we couldn't edit him out as he was part of the presentation with Judge Helen Brown of Detroit
as they took turns at the mic, but he's a family court judge with a whole lot of soul...so it's a case of here
comes the judges.) It's also got way too much of me - especially in the first opening clip introducing
Mayor/Senator Bill Hardiman, but it's the just the way the editors did it and it's not cost effective to
redo the whole thing. Blessedly, you can fast forward easily to the parts you want to show - or skip!

To order, print out a pdf of the order form at http://www.playbacknow.com/cmfce/75-BC1.pdf

OR, order directly off the web site at:
http://www.playbacknow.com/search/index.cfm?ProductCode=75-bc1

Or, if those won't work just go to
http://www.playbacknow.com/cmfce and then click on the special package.

Or, if you can't make either of these work, call 800-241-7785.

HERE IS WHAT THE PACKAGE CONTAINS:
SPECIAL African American Marriage Collection
Strengthening Marriage in the Black Community
15 sessions: on CD

Grand Rapids Community Marriage Policy...Mayor Bill Hardiman
Recorded at the 1998 Smart Marriages Conference

Team Parenting & The Fragile Families Network...Joe Jones
Recorded at the 1999 Smart Marriages Conference

Why Some People are Skeptical About the Marriage Agenda...Lorraine Blackman
Recorded at the 2001 Smart Marriages Conference

In the Community: Clinics, Courts & Classrooms...Judge Helen Brown & Judge Jim Sheridan
Recorded at the 2001 Smart Marriages Conference

Opening Remarks...Admiral Barry Black, DMin, PhD
Recorded at the 2002 Smart Marriages Conference

10 Rites of Passage: Abstinence, Fatherhood & Marriage...Charles Lee Johnson
Recorded at the 2002 Smart Marriages Conference

The Marriage Movement...Rev George Young
Recorded at the 2003 Smart Marriages Conference

Reviving Marriage in the Black Community...Rozario Slack & Nisa Muhammad
Recorded at the 2003 Smart Marriages Conference

Marriage Rally...Pastor Dion Evans
Recorded at the 2004 Smart Marriages Conference

TLC for African American Couples...Pat Dixon, PhD, MBA
Recorded at the 2004 Smart Marriages Conference

5 Audio Sessions

Takes Two : Restoring the Village...Michele Goss and Norman Jones
The strengths, beliefs, and attitudes of the African-American community and tools
from the PAIRS course build trust, intimacy, communication and strong, proud
relationships. For black singles & couples. Get on the bus!

African American Marriage Enrichment Program...Lorraine Blackman, PhD
Learn to design and implement programs specific to this population through an
educational approach.

Marriage Strengthening for Low-Income, Unmarried Parents Better Together...
Judith Charlick, PhD, Krsnanandini Dasi, Tariq Ziyad
Successes and challenges of developing and implementing this 8-session skills program.

Family Connections...Francesca Adler-Baeder, PhD, Alicia Luckie, MS
Lessons learned in one of the first federally-funded pilot projects teaching skills to unmarried parents.

Fatherhood and Marriage...Rozario Slack, DMin, George Young, MDiv, John Chacon
Marriage has proven to be the best path to successfully and continually engage fathers
in the lives of their children. Learn about fatherhood programs that integrate marriage education & promotion.

Strengthening Marriage in the Black Community...Linda Malone-Colon, George Young, PhD
Understand where we¹re coming from, where we need to go and what couples need
to get there. We'll look at history, challenges and specific ways to strengthen black marriages.

5 sessions on 5 cassettes or CDs
10 video sessions on 1 DVD

SPECIAL PACKAGE PRICE $59 on MP# or $89 on CD -
Save $315 if purchased individually
Item Number: 75-bc1


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