Build a stronger marriage from the start.

As soon as you decide to marry, meet with our clergy and take advantage of our premarital counseling services.  Our clergy are trained and qualified to help you in many aspects of your relationship such as: Conflict Resolution, Financial Management, Communication Skills, Spiritual Beliefs, Children and Parenting, Family Roles, and more.  We use the PREPARE/ENRICH marriage assessment.

What is PREPARE/ENRICH?

PREPARE/ENRICH is a customized couple assessment completed online that identifies a couple's strength and growth areas.  It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education.  But there are also customized versions of the inventory used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, and dating couples considering engagement.  Based on a couple's assessment results, a trained facilitator provides 4-8 feedback sessions in which the facilitator helps the couple discuss and understand their results as they are taught proven relationship skills.

How many people have taken the PREPARE/ENRICH Program?

Over 3 million couples have taken the PREPARE/ENRICH Program since it began in 1980.

What are the major goals of the PREPARE/ENRICH Program?

There are several goals of the PREPARE?ENRICH Program.  In order to achieve these goals there are exercises designed to help couples improve thier relationship skills.  The program helps couples:

• Explore strength and growth areas
• Strengthen communication skills
• Identify and manage major stressors
• Resolve conflict using teh Ten Step Model
• Develop a more balanced relationship
• Explore family of origin issues
• Discuss financial planning and budgeting
• Establish personal, couple and family goals
• Understand and appreciated personality differences

What relationship areas are assessed by the Inventories?

• 12 Relationship Scales - communication, conflict resolution, roles, sexuality, finances, spiritual beliefs and more
• 5 SCOPE Personality Scales
• 4 Couple and Family Scales - based on the circumplex model
• 4 Relationship Dynamic Scales
• 30 Customized Scales

Is the PREPARE/ENRICH Program valid & reliable?

An important strength of the PREPARE/ENRICH Inventories is their strong psychometric properties.  High levels of reliability and validity have been found for each instrument, making them valuable tools for reserach as well as clinical use.

National Norms based on over 500,000 couples

High Levels of Validity and Reliability:

PREPARE has a validity in that it discriminates premarital couples that get divorced from those that are happily married with about 80-85% accuracy.  Reliability is high (alpha reliability of .80-.85).

For more information about research with the PREPARE/ENRICH Inventories, view Research Articles.

What is the cost of PREPARE/ENRICH?

The cost for the Inventory scoring can vary.  Be sure to check with our clergy for the final cost to you.