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National Healthy Marriage Resource Center

10530 Rosehaven St., Suite 400
Fairfax, VA 22030-2840

Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. EST
Phone (Toll Free): (866) 916-4672 or 866-91-NHMRC
Fax: (703) 385-3206

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  • Team Directory - A list of NHMRC team members and their contact information
  • The NHMRC Team - Organizations responsible for project management and operations
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Team Members

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Mary Myrick
Project Director		 Ellen Holman
Strategic Communications and Outreach Co-lead
Jeanette Hercik
Associate Director		 Mary Hyde
Strategic Communications and Outreach Co-lead
Mike Fishman
Associate Director		 Diane Calihan
Consumer Web site Consultant
Patrick Patterson
Program Manager		 Anne Menard
Domestic Violence Liaison
Courtney Harrison
Resource Development Co-lead		 Theodora Ooms
Senior Advisor
Sharrie McKintosh
Resource Development Co-lead		 Peter Picard
Media Campaign Research Advisor

Additional Team Members

Jeremy Brown
Allison Hyra
Erv Lucero
Jen McHenry
Charles Sauro
 Marissa Stone
Leslie Williams
Stephanie Wofford
Rachel Yarbrough

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance

Michelle Clune
Federal Project Officer
Administration for Children and Families
Office of Family Assistance
370 L’Enfant Promenade SW
5th Floor East
Washington, DC 20447
202-401-5467

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The NHMRC Team

The Administration for Children and Families' Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has entered into a cooperative agreement with Public Strategies, Inc. (PSI) to develop the NHMRC. PSI has brought together the expertise of The Lewin Group, Caliber/ICF International, and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence to form the NHMRC team. The team works closely with OFA to provide support to ACF grantees and individuals and organizations that want to learn more about how to form, support, and promote healthy marriage. In 2008, the NHMRC partnered with two organizations to assist in the creation of the NHMRC's individuals and couples-focused Web site and it national media campaign on marriage.

Public Strategies, Inc. (PSI) is a nationally recognized project management firm. Since 1999, PSI has managed the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, a multi-million dollar, comprehensive, multi-sector program designed to strengthen marriage and support family formation. Widely recognized as a national leader in the healthy marriage field, PSI provides training and technical assistance to states, tribal territories and organizations, and two federal, multi-site healthy marriage demonstration programs: Building Strong Families and Supporting Healthy Marriages.

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting firm with more than 35 years of experience providing objective analysis, technical assistance, and program evaluation to a wide variety of health and human services clients. Lewin has provided technical assistance to child welfare and child support healthy marriage grantees in the design, implementation, and evaluation of their programs. It has trained federal staff and grantees in logic model development and use, produced a self-instructional logic model guide, and created a facilitator guide for logic model trainings. Lewin is currently examining the adequacy of state systems for the collection of marriage and divorce-related statistics.

ICF International is a consulting firm which has provided state-of-the-art resource center and clearinghouse services, research and evaluation support, information technology expertise and services, and training/technical assistance to a wide variety of human and social services for over 20 years. Currently it operates several ACF clearinghouses and resource centers, and manages approximately 30 Federal Web sites, pioneering Community of Practice technology for the Office of Family Assistance.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) was founded in 1993 as a key component in a national network of domestic violence resources designed to improve societal responses to domestic violence. Operated by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the NRCDV provides technical assistance and training to individuals, organizations, and communities; conducts research and analysis; and supports public education and prevention activities. It operates the Women of Color Network and a Web site that receives over 2,000 daily visitors (www.VAWnet.org). The NRCDV has been ACF’s primary domestic violence technical assistance provider for healthy marriage grantees and has assisted over 50 sites in designing and implementing domestic violence protocols.

BarkleyREI is an interactive agency that specializes in the travel and tourism, higher education and nonprofit categories, serving clients including Pennsylvania Tourism, U.S. National Park Service, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Ad Council, Carnegie Mellon University, and Vanderbuilt University. It has offices in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

TRU is the global leader in tweens, teens and twenty-somethings. For more than 25 years, TRU has provided the insights that have helped many of the world's most successful companies and organizations develop meaningful connections with young people. The company's work has led to the development of countless new products, groundbreaking marketing campaigns, and flourishing brands. TRU's vision is to provide an unparalleled expertise in the youth market and to offer our clients virtually unlimited methods for thoroughly researching and understanding tweens, teens, and twenty-somethings. TRU is a part of Research International, the world's largest custom-research firm, with offices in more than 50 countries, and also part of Kantar, the insights and consultancy arm of WPP.

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