Our Mission... Enable resources for strengthening and enriching positive relationships within all family members and with their environments.

Our Vision... The family will be the most important unit for physical care and emotional security, for both children and adults.

Our Objectives... Families in the New Millennium will be committed to provide education, information and counseling assistance to the diversity of families in our communities and also provide preventive educational resources for people and organizations working with families in order to help altogether develop and environment where adults and children can find the physical care and emotional security they deserve.

Services

• Premarital - Couples - Stepfamilies
• Couple and Family Therapy
• Psycho-educational programs
• Provider of the PREPARE / ENRICH Program for Couples

Stepfamily Program

• Stepping Together Program, for Couples in a Step Relationship
• Smart Step Program for Adults and Children in Stepfamilies

Bilingual Assistance in both Spanish and English

The 20th Century has witnessed a remarkable change in family structure and dynamics in Western Europe and America: smaller household sizes , a further shift to from extended to nuclear families, a decrease in nuptiality and an increase in separation or divorce, the appearance of new forms of unions such as unmarried cohabitation and living-apart-together, changing gender and intergenerational relations, and, last but not least, a substantial decrease in fertility, often to below replacement levels.

Associated with the increasing divorce rate is the rise in one-parent families, the majority headed by women. Single-parent households, however, also increase because of the growing number of mothers who are single by accident or choice.

Many unmarried mothers are living together with a partner (who may or may not be the father of the child/children or be in a transitional stage in the union formation.

After breaking up a union, most people – 75 percent of women, 80 percent of men - constitute a new union, either in the form of a consensual union or in the form of a marriage forming in the case of one or both of them have children, forming a stepfamily.

The most profound change, however, has been the growing conviction that all human beings have fundamental rights to “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”. With this new understanding, it does not seem surprising that relationships within the family are going through many changes.

Family change, along with change in general, brings loss and pain as well as hope and promise. However, with new knowledge and new perspectives, it is impossible to return to the past; we cannot shut the door of our minds and forget what we have learned we must go on to find new and satisfying family relationships.*

*Quote from the book: “Therapy with Stepfamilies” Emily B. Visher, Ph.D. and John S. Visher, M.D.