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Smart Steps for Stepfamilies
Our research-based education program for adults and children living in stepfamilies.
Online Stepparenting Program Toolkit
Video-based interactive program featuring 10 common challenges in stepfamilies. A library of useful information is also available on topics related to parenting, stepparenting, coparenting, and managing a healthy couple relationship. All available free!
Quick Steps: Information to Help Your Stepfamily Thrive
These one to two page downloads are based on current research about remarriage and stepfamily life. Download the ones that interest you and share them with family and friends. If you are a professional working with stepfamilies, use them to supplement classes you may be offering, presentations you give, or simply offer them to families you're working with.
Love Notes
These one-page downloads are based on current research about creating healthy relationships. The Love Notes come out of the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative (AHMREI). Download the ones that interest you and share them with your friends and family.
ReMarriage Blog
Read events and stories based on families that may resemble your own. These blogs are written by individuals who are experiencing different perspectives of remarital life. You may be able to empathize and relate to the mom and former family court judge who juggles children and a new marriage or the teenager who goes back and forth between two homes and shares his life with 3 step siblings. Check out their thoughts as they navigate the dynamics of stepfamily living.