Public-private group helps Maryland families stay together

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?s pop chart hit “Teach Your Children” could easily be the theme song for Friends of the Family Inc.

“Family Support Centers help young families that are struggling to raise little children, suchas families headed by an adolescent,” said Margaret Williams, executive director of the Baltimore-based Friends of the Family, a public-private nonprofit organization that contracts with and provides funding and oversight to more than two dozen family outreach centers in the state.