Calendar of Events

July 8-11, Orlando, FL:  The 13th Annual Smart Marriages Conference.  Learn from the world’s top marriage and relationship experts.  For counselors, clergy, social workers, family life educators, therapists, family advocates, teachers, lawyers, health care professionals - and the public!  Publisher of reMarriage Magazine, Paula Bisacre has attended this and you don’t want to miss it.  For more information, see the Smart Marriages website.

July 10, 2009, Greystone Golf Course, White Hall, MD:  Remarriage LLC proudly supports the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Ed Butch Maguire Golf Classic.  1 p.m. shotgun start; reception 6-9 p.m.; Contact Lexie Bubb, abubb@jdrf.org or 410-636-8080 for more details and to register.

To submit your event, send the information to staff@remarriagemag.com .

These nonprofit groups provide information on remarriage, blended family issues, and more:

Break the Cycle- Provides over 150 practical articles and worksheets for blended family adults, supporters, and professionals. Includes a series for survivors of significant childhood trauma, Grown Wounded Children.

Bonus Families- Bonus Families® is the only international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peaceful coexistence between divorced or separated parents and their combined families.

Changingfocus.org - Changingfocus.org provides education and support groups for adults going through marital separation or divorce, or have lost their spouse by death. It also offers help for those who wish to develop better relationship and communication skills. Locations in Central Maryland. 

Institute for Family Education- The Institute for Family Education is dedicated to helping parents and educators help children by focusing on critical success outcomes that are the basis for a higher and healthier Emotional Intelligence.

National Family Resiliency Center- The National Family Resiliency Center, Inc. (NFRC) helps children and adults better understand and accept the realities of life-changing experiences in their family, as well as give them the guidance they need in order to identify and express their feelings in a healthy and healing way.

National Stepfamily Resource Center- The National Stepfamily Resource Center’s primary objective is to serve as a clearinghouse of information, resources, and support for stepfamily members and the professionals who work with them.

The National Father’s Resource Center- The vision of Fathers for Equal Rights, Inc. is that society will recognize the right of every child to have a healthy relationship with both parents, regardless of the status of their family structure.

Additional resources:

StepMom Magazine - an on-line publication that features monthly articles about:  step-life, marriage, divorce, parenting, exes, in-laws, custody, finance and legal matters.  By subscribing, you’ll join a group of women from all over the US and Canada and become a member of the magazine’s support group forum - a private place where StepMoms can post questions, get advice, discuss common concerns and share successes.