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Patrick Patterson, MSW, MPH Program Manager for the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center As a charismatic and outgoing leader, Patrick Patterson provides strategic guidance, fiscal and administrative management, and directs daily operations for the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center. With the unique ability to mobilize the masses, Patrick has spent his career training numerous organizations and groups on father absence and its impact on families. His consistency in these efforts has garnered local, state and national attention. Prior to joining PSI, Patrick worked for the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Philadelphia regional office, with responsibility for Healthy Marriage, Fatherhood and Community and Faith-based grantees and initiatives throughout a five state (Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania) area as well as the District of Columbia. Patrick is also experienced as a Program Manager for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina’s multi-year, $8 million, statewide Fatherhood Initiative. He received Master’s Degrees in both Social Work and Public Health from the University of South Carolina. < Back to Team