Purpose Built Built Families Foundation delivers evidence-based PAIRS relationship skills training to strengthen connections with family, friends and social support networks.
Operation Sacred Trust ("OST") is a Purpose Built Families Foundation collaboration for ending veteran homelessness and preventing suicide.
Since 2011, OST has helped prevent and end homelessness for thousands of veteran families through a model of care founded on empathy, compassion, and addressing the underlying causes of homelessness. Learn more about Purpose Built Families Foundation's recommendations for publicly-funded programs serving veterans in crisis.
True intimacy is a requirement of successful relationships. Lifelong partnerships, which were once based on security, stability, and raising children, now depend on sustained interpersonal connection and equality. Today, marriages are an enduring source of love, intimacy, and companionship.
Independent research has demonstrated that evidence-based relationship skills training works for all groups under all circumstances evaluated.
It is one of the paradoxes of modern-day life that the knowledge that can offer us a sense of safety, connection, love, security and predictability in a world that is often chaotic, filled with turbulence, turmoil, violence and unpredictability – the knowledge that we most need – is not taught and is not required in any school curriculum. It is knowledge that our parents couldn’t teach as they didn’t have it.
This knowledge is called Emotional Literacy.
Upon this knowledge, this literacy, all of our other abilities, creativity and the use of our intelligence, depends.
What is Emotional Literacy? The Oxford dictionary defines literate as an educated person who can read and write.
Emotional Literacy means an educated person who can read and write emotions – but what does that mean? And, how do we develop it?
Developing Emotional Literacy is the process of becoming an emotionally educated person, one who is able to read and write the language of the heart, one who is able to have empathy and compassion for others.
PAIRS training develops these abilities.