Practical Skills for
Successful Relationships™

Best Practices in Strengthening Marriage, Family and Relationships as a Foundation to Resilient Communities. Built from the best of psychology, psychiatry, marriage therapy and counseling into an educational, highly experiential model.

The Mission of PAIRS is to teach those attitudes,

emotional understandings and behaviors that

nurture and sustain healthy relationships and to

make this knowledge broadly available on behalf

of a safer, saner, more loving world.

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Since 1983, the mission of PAIRS Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity, has been to teach those attitudes, emotional understandings, and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships and to make this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world. We accomplish our mission by developing and delivering evidence-based, best practices in marriage, family and couples education, conducting research, and training instructors worldwide.


PAIRS supports research, education and related charitable activities to permanently interrupt cycles of inter-generational poverty by strengthening families as the foundation of resilient neighborhoods and communities.

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Skills for Successful Relationships

Best Practices in Strengthening Marriage, Family and Relationships as a Foundation to Resilient Communities


PAIRS Foundation's nearly half century of experience teaching the attitudes, emotional understandings, and behaviors that nurture and sustain healthy relationships and making this knowledge broadly available on behalf of a safer, saner, more loving world. PAIRS builds on this longstanding mission by actively involving leadership of local schools, housing communities, employers, law enforcement, and faith-based programs in support of our ultimate goal of comprehensive community wellness that is sustainable and replicable as a foundation for America’s children and families to pursue the promise and potential of their lives.

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