Shield Bearer is Strengthening Relationships, Developing Healthy Families, and Growing Strong Communities! Shield Bearer is your most trusted resource for life's relationships.

Services Offered

Counseling Services
Shield Bearer assists people who are struggling with personal, marital and family problems. Our professional counseling services are offered by highly trained and educated counselors who can provide the kind of confidentiality and specialized treatment that can help get people started in the right direction.

Couples and Marriage counseling services
Counseling Services for Families
Counseling Services for Teens & Adolescents
Counseling Services for Children
Premarital Counseling Services
Personal Confidential Counseling Services

Prevention Services

Community Based Services

Couples Workshops and Retreats
Shield Bearer encourages couples to spend to time together working on their relationship and investing in their future together. Shield Bearer has helped thousands of couples through over 100 couples workshops, retreats and weekends. We partner with churches, civic groups, retreat centers and destinations to give couples the space and attention they need to reconnect, rekindle and recommit.

Parenting
Parenting can be tough. 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.

Relationships 101
Relationships 101 teaches gender specific groups over eight to thirteen sessions how to think long term regarding their future and hopes and dreams. We help them discover their values and set behavioral boundaries which will help them reach their goals in line with their values.

School Based Services
Shield Bearer believes that great family services are best delivered where the children are, in a school based setting. School based services focus on strengthen child outcomes by arming them with skills needed to achieve their full potential and by encouraging parent child interaction. Shield Bearer serves preschools, head starts, elementary, middle and high school students during the regular school day.

Dating Violence Prevention
Shield Bearer equips young women and men with the tools to recognize and seek help for "red flags" that might lead to dating violence situations for themselves or their friends.

Strong Fathers Strong Families
This parent involvement or male engagement program creates interactive and meaningful events that improve academic performance and reduce behavioral acting out in students.

Teen Dad Program
With over 200 self-identified high school fathers served, our teen dad program helps fathers understand the role of their father pattern, relationship with their baby's mother, relationship values and their crucial importance in the success and outcomes of the child they have fathered.

Fees and Payment

Shield-Bearer Counseling Centers is a nonprofit charitable organization and we will attempt to find a way to work within your budget.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Couples
Teens
Children

Special Groups:
Bilingual
Faith-Based

Payment:
Sliding Scale
Pro-bono