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The Marriage Resource Center of Carroll County (MRC) is a 50l (c)(3) faith-based organization established in 2004 and is located in the Carroll Non Profit Center in Westminster. We are dedicated to strengthening marriages and families, including involved fatherhood, through relationship education community partnerships, and awareness efforts.

The vision of healthy marriages and families is a shared vision. Some hold this view because of a spiritual belief that strong marriages and families are a part of God's creative plan. Others hold this view because of their concern about the effect of troubled and failed marriages on adults and children alike, and the relationship they have to poverty, violence in the home, educational achievement, teenage pregnancy, school dropouts, crime, and substance abuse.

Children have a right to be safe, loved and cared for and a healthy marriage provides the best environment for them to thrive.

Regardless of the motivation, together, as Champions For Children, we can build strong marriages and families.  

Our Programs and Services Include:

• Equipping and resourcing churches in the development of marriage ministries

•  Make It Last: A skills-based workshop for engaged and seriously dating couples

•  Couple Checkup online relationship assessment

•  WAIT Training (Why Am I Tempted?) - A nationally acclaimed love and relationship curriculum for youth*

• How to Avoid Falling For A Jerk/Jerkette for singles/singles again.*

• Dynamite Dad Contest

• Parenting classes

•  Prepare-Enrich marriage mentor training

• Marriage Enrichment Conferences                                                                                                                                                                               
• Celebrate Marriage Dinner

• Referrals to professional counselors

•  Website with resource links.

• Speaker’s Bureau

• Literature displays at community events

• Social Networking

*Faith-based teaching also available

To Add a Program:

If you have a marriage-related event that is taking place either within Carroll County or within driving distance of Carroll County, that you would like to add to our Calendar of Events, send an e-mail with all of the relevant information to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .