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Welcome to the home of the Healthy Marriage Coalition for Stanislaus County

We believe every couple deserves the chance to experience the very best that the marriage experience has to offer. However, great marriages don’t just happen, they take care and nurturing to come to full blossom.

The Stanislaus County Healthy Marriage Coalition offers this community resource website so that you can find classes, events and other activities to grow and nurture your great marriage or help you form lasting relationships through marriage and relationship skills training.

See the links at the top of the page to direct you toward the most appropriate category for your personal needs.

The Stanislaus County Healthy Marriage Coalition is a non-profit public benefit corporation supported our great community. We serve Stanislaus County, and the cities of Escalon, Riverbank and Ripon in San Joaquin county. SCHMC is a fully tax-exempt 501c3 corporation, so your gifts are fully tax-deductible. The SCHMC is not affiliated with the County of Stanislaus in any way.

"If a disease were to afflict the majority of a populace, spreading pain and dysfunction throughout all age groups, we would be frantically searching for reasons and solutions. Yet this particular scourge has become so endemic that it is virtually ignored. The scourge is divorce, an oddly neglected topic in a nation that has the worst record of broken marriages in the entire world. Divorce is the 'root problem' in our country and is the cause of any number of other social ills." - George Gallup, Jr.  

Marriage is…

the incarnation of a love so strong a child's heart can rely upon it.

And When

Marriages Fail … Pretty much every bad thing that can happen to a child happens more often:  more poverty, more sexual abuse, more infant mortality, lower life expectancy, more teen pregnancy, more sexually transmitted diseases, more high school drop-outs, more conduct disorders, more juvenile delinquency and adult criminality.
– Maggie Gallagher

Continuing-

Love & Respect Video Series

at Shelter Cove Community Church

See our “Established Marriages” tab for more information

Dr. Eggerichs takes a humorous approach to applying Biblical truth to the differences between men and women and how to use those differences to increase communication and harmony in your marriage.

This class is also suitable for Singles, Seriously Dating, Engaged, Newly Married, Marriage Enrichment, Empty Nesters, Troubled Marriages, Separated, Expectant / New Parents, Step Family

Coming up: September 26

FIREPROOF at a theatre near you

See our “Fireproof” tab for more information

Statistics courtesy of the National Center for Health Statistics and economist Benjamin Scafidi.