Community Based Services

Shield-Bearer champions healthy relationships in secular community based programs improving family relationships.  As the most important link in the family, Shield-Bearer provides marital and premarital seminars, workshops and retreats in an effort to strengthen the family. 

Relationships can be difficult and when unattended and uncared for can become unhealthy.  Shield-Bearer encourages couples to spend to time together working on their relationship and investing in their future together.   Shield-Bearer has provided over 30 full day free marriage education workshops in the past year. 

Parenting

Parenting can be tough as well.  Relationships between parents and children can become strained and unhealthy leading to difficulties at school, home and in the community.  Shield-Bearer provides parenting classes, workshops and seminars to strengthen relationships between parents and children.

Teen Pregnancy

One of the most pressing issue facing the Greater Houston area is the rise of Teen pregnancy.  Shield-Bearer has served over 200 youth in our teen pregnancy prevention program outside school settings. Reinforcing the success sequence of educational accomplishment, vocational certification or degree and marriage before beginning parenting is a key to solving the epidemic problem facing our communities today.