Wellness Pointe’s VOW Healthy Marriage Education Initiative is specifically designed to help build strong marriages.

VOW is an innovative and interactive program designed to help young adult single persons and  couples access information that will enable them to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to  foster and sustain healthy marriages.

Statistics verify a national divorce rate of over 50% (Olsen & DeFrain, 1997).  A significant proportion of married couples experience serious marital conflict early in their relationship, as indicated by the high divorce rate early into marriage.  In fact, the average length of marriage is only six years.  Clearly, couples are not prepared to deal with the challenges of marriage.

VOW serves an eight county region (Camp, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Panola, Rusk, Smith and Upshur) with a total population of 480,000 in northeast Texas.  These counties register  significant divorce rates and overwhelming numbers of women who are having children out of wedlock.  The situation is multi-cultural and VOW includes components that focus on all demographic populations.