Rev. Dion Evans, Bay Area Clergy Leadership Alliance
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How would you rate the opening plenary session (Rev. Dion Evans)?
Very insightful and powerful!!! And well delivered. Overwhelming. Top Rate. Excellent advise.
Inspiring, encouraging. He was fantastic! We need him to help us get things going in
NJ. One of the most articulate & Effective presenters I have heard on this
issue (Sen. Anderson). He spoke well but his presentation was mainly limited to
his community. I give the conference a "10"! Wonderful! I just loved all the
information. Congratulations. Very inspirational as always! Tremendously
motivating-a great start to the day. Needed more time, but probably would not
have been more effective. Very inspiring and was created an interest in
developing and collaborating with others in my community. Gave clear action steps.
Excellent session today to encourage all of us to get involved. Informational,
Inspirational, Dynamic (needs more depth).
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Dr. David Popenoe
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Dr. David Popenoe: Provided important research. Excellent. Dr. David
Popeno’s talk is inspirational. Dr. Popenoe was great. Info from National Marriage
Project was very interesting. Needs more time. Dr. Ponenoe had good info.
Dr. P was great. Excellent data from Dr. Popenoe.
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Rev. Darrell Armstrong, President, NJ Healthy Marriage Coalition
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How would you rate the first breakout session you attended?
Marriage Celebration: Excellent. Marriage celebration was eye opening.
Perfect, Absolutely important. We need to get busy. I love this concept-it will help
rebuild the value of marriage. Presenters were very informative in hand outs.
The presentations (verbal) were too fast. Had many questions on each side.
Need more time. Useful-2. Uplifting to enhance my ministry and others.
State Efforts to Strengthen Marriage: Need more time to answer questions.
Very informative & productive session. Great. Excellent-4. Very Good.
Encouraging. Would have preferred more info on NJ. Great to meet legislators that are
focused and gaining ground on family issues. It was good to hear about local
efforts. It’s good to hear about the support of Healthy Marriages at the state
level. I hope it continues. An informative session to learn the strategies
and results of Arizona & Minnesota. Great information. Gave ideas to follow up
with my legislators (Coyne). Helpful. Educational.
Domestic Violence: Very Educational. Important beginning discussion-raise
important issues. Excellent. Victims of DV would love to have info. Very Good.
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Bill Campbell, Couples with Promise Healthy Marriage Initiative
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How would you rate the second breakout session you attended?
Marriage Ed for youth: Excellent. Good. Very Good. Focus on Youth is so
critical. Rate?-The highest score. A very effective touch on the issues that face
our young people. Best I’ve ever heard on the subject. Richard’s presentation
way so good-too short. Great overview. I am looking forward to using the RQ
with the youth at the church I serve. A much needed illustration on the
relationships on young men and women. Helpful
Faith-based efforts: Very Good-3. Great. Very informative. Because I am
religious, I loved hearing about the importance of God in a relationship. Even
though the other presenters didn’t show up, they just went on and filled in
fantastically. An interactive session that educational and interesting. Inspiring.
Useful
Federal & Local Efforts: Could have been much better. Very good-3. Enjoyed
Dr. Rein’s presentation. Good although I expected more practical advice. Its
wonderful to hear from both perspectives in building programs for Healthy
Marriages. Too much Gov.-should have show-cased more local efforts. Need some
improvement. Very Good & inspiring. Informative.
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Rachel Johnson
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How would you rate the lunch plenary session: All speakers were succinct and
had meaningful information. Eye opening. Very Good-4. Excellent-2. Great. This
session was dynamic! Would have liked to see community leaders explaining
courses (instead of Gov.). Inspiring to see and meet the Federal Govt. personnel
expressing full and sincere support. Awesome information! Rewarding good
marriages-great idea for the community. Helpful Very informative of good and new
ideas. The food was amazing. I liked all the speakers during lunch. Useful
info. Very informative and educational! The support is diverse and their
efforts show that there’s a good solid support for this kind of activities and
programs. A good melting of topics-very informative. The information will be
helpful in directing the marriage initiative. Very Good and informing. Useful.
MaryAnn Higgins, ACF: The information was potent-allows us to know what’s
coming down the pike from the Federal & State Gov. for strengthening Families &
programs.
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Nisa Muhammed, Black Marriage Day Initiative
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Nisa Muhammed: Wonderful. "Nisa is a gem. I want her and Rev. Evans to come
to Arizona."-(Sen. Andrews) I enjoyed Nisa Muhammed’s presentation-she
presents her info so matter-of-factly. I really liked Ms. Muhammed. Nisa was
AWESOME!! Her presentation was excellent. I strongly support Nisa Muhammed with
more and more accomplisjments. Overall, very good-especially Ms. Muhammed. Nisa
was great
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State Efforts Panel (Sen. Steve Dill (MN), Sen. Mark Anderson (AZ), Dr. Seriah Rein)
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How would you rate the third breakout session you attended? Excellent-2.
Compelling for all to further efforts.
Marriage Ed programs, Alan (Saunders) made a good presentation. Ron was
interesting. Good. Very interesting. Excellent!-2. Very good! Very informative.
It’s good to know of different programs going on everywhere. A brief
introduction of each gave ideas to provoke more research into the specific programs.
Alan was great! He needed more time. Very helpful. Needs more time and less
topics-too much for a short time. Learned something-enjoyed.
State efforts: Excellent. Sen. Dille was very clear and is a great leader on
this. Dr. Rein was provocative & interesting. Great. The best presentation
of the day. Very informational current initiatives going on! Movement is very
necessary, seemed to need committed clergy to make this work. Helpful
Marriage Initiatives: Excellent-3. Very Good-2. I enjoyed hearing Jeannie
Avery and realized it’s a step-by-step process but it’s really what communities
need & want. Inspiring, clear- Helped me build my vision. The NJ Clergy
initiative is fascinating and I hope to assist. The Flemington project is a great
model that can be emulated.
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Joseph Coyne, NJ Parents Foundation
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Any suggestions or comments?
Continue to grow. More contact all year round. Use email, links, website to
inform/remind/announce. I want to learn more and be involved(Julie
Edwards).How can I get something going in my community? The day had a good flow. Even
though scheduling was a bit off, you all pulled it off and finished wonderfully.
I thought the whole conference was excellent and really inspired all who were
in attendance. Family is the key to solving all the community, national and
world’s problems. Excellent combination of presenters. Monthly workshops.
Media relationship promotion. Everybody needs to hear this material. We need to
work harder to get the word out. Marriage Summit needs to advertise more for
such a valuable program. More youth involved from inner city & suburbs. More
clergy from Hispanic and African American community. Thanks. [Linda-Send press
release follow-up; mail out to former attendees each year; send follow-up
newsletter-easier to read than letters-especially to legislators and potential
donors. Hand out response forms for each session and one for overall. Send
thank you letters to presenters. Need time keeper and event coordinator for the
day who is not registration or a presenter]. My car gets fixed and there is
preventative maintenance also-When Couples are in trouble, they tend to hide and
one often finds out too late .If possible increase the handouts. A hard copy
of each presenter/speaker would be great also-a possible email address exchange
between the attendees. Keep the excellent work. I hope there is a 3rd
Annual Summit! Keep the good work advancing. The program was well planned, more
than one could have anticipated. The speakers were dynamic & inspiring. Good
net working sources. Do it again! Soon!-2 days next year. Promote through
radio, TV, newspapers. This is not a job-it is a mission. Continue to press
forward with this vision. More on coalition building and how to get a grant.
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Would you like to join or volunteer for the NJ Healthy Marriage Coalition?
Yes, I want to be Part of this movement-Julie Edwards 201-434-3510. I wish I
could but I live in Zambia. I will be an "honorary" member.-Sen. Anderson.
Highly likely-I would like to get a bit more research done on the statistics as
well as attend a few meetings myself-basically, educate myself enough to
train and provide support to others, those we’re trying to reach. Maybe you can
have a website for volunteers to sign up. A wonderful event-looking forward to
the next one. I would love to advise. Would like to form a coalition with New
York & New Jersey Healthy Marriage Alliances. I am interested in learning
more about the coalition. Yes!-8.
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MaryAnn Higgins, ACF
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Richard Panzer, Vice President, NJ Healthy Marriage Coaliton
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Barbara Andrews, ACF
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Linda Haft
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Alan Saunders
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Maysee Yang, ACF
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