Strong Families:

Our Three-fold Strategy for Strong Families

At its founding in 1989, Pennsylvania Family Institute outlined a three-fold strategy to strengthen families and restore time-tested Judeo-Christian principles to our culture and government, and its a strategy that can involve you.

1. Pennsylvania Family Institute works to raise awareness of the importance of family and strong moral principles in today's marketplace of ideas, namely, the media. For too long a vacuum existed in much of the media - an absence of a pro-family perspective on issues that significantly affect our lives and the well-being of our society. Pennsylvania Family Institute is filling that vacuum by providing professionally-crafted research and perspectives on policy and cultural issues that impact the family. By impacting the media, perhaps the strongest voice in our culture, we impact the culture itself.

2. Pennsylvania Family Institute stands at the gate - where the policy makers and opinion leaders make their decisions - as a constant reminder to consider the family when those decisions are made. Much like the environmental impact studies required for major construction projects, Pennsylvania Family Institute provides family impact testimony and research papers when significant issues confront the legislature in our state Capitol - all with the intent to defend and uphold the family as the foundation. From education issues to tax, divorce and welfare reform to sanctity of life issues, Pennsylvania Family Institute is the one full-time professional voice representing the family in Harrisburg.

3. No plan to bring positive, lasting change on behalf of families will be effective if it does not involve we the people - the everyday citizens upon whom, in our system, the mantle of authority rests. Pennsylvania Family Institute communicates with large numbers of such people, helping them learn how they can, as good citizens, see those time-honored principles fleshed out in public life. Pennsylvania Family works with churches, community groups and individuals to foster effective, persuasive action.