Home Management Resources provides education and mentoring in the practical aspects of daily living to help people achieve greater purpose and dignity in their life.

To be a catalyst of transformation for individuals, families and communitites, at home, and across the nation, who want to improve their quality of life.

Our goal at Home Management Resources is to:

• Share knowledge that empowers people to change
• Inspire people to strive for greater personal integrity and self sufficency
• Create stronger, more competent and loving families
• Improve the quality of life in communities where the Family Life Seminar
  is taught

Founding Director, Gwenyth Delee

Home Management Resources was organized in 1986 to educate parents in the art of running a home and raising a family, considered by many to be the toughest management task there is!

Why was it needed? Families were changing: Many mothers were working full time, so the daily instruction and skill modeling for children that had been customary prior to the 1960′s was no longer available at home. And an increasing number of children were being raised by a single parent, who had also been raised by a single parent.

In both situations, skill sets which had been taken for granted were disappearing, making it more difficult for people to handle the practical issues of daily family life. The result was a general decline in the physical order and relationships in the home.

The People of Praise Christian Community in South Bend Indiana, studied the situation and decided to change the tide with a positive intervention. Three years were spent discussing and writing curriculum, and members of the South Bend community were trained as instructors and mentors. In 1986 they began teaching a 12-week flagship course, the Family Life Seminar, focused primarily on the role of the mother as manager of the home. It was an instant success!

Our course has been taught in churches, banks, hospitals, rehab centers, community centers, and homeless centers. We have a course for teens at a juvenile correction center, and another for school-age mothers in alternative high schools. Our unique Train the Trainer Seminars have been used by several Habitat for Humanity affiliates in Indiana.

People from all walks of life graduate from the Family Life Seminar each year, and represent a true cross section of the community, because the curriculum addresses home and family issues that face all of us, regardless of income, education, age, gender or family situation.