TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has released a list of healthy marriage advocates it invited to a closed-door, brain-storming session last month with Gov. Sam Brownback.

The department reported that it paid the invitees’ travel expenses, which were $11,464.

The list was released in response to an open records request filed by the Kansas Democratic Party. Brownback is Republican.

Those who attended the meeting, according to SRS, were:

• Joyce Webb of the Kansas Healthy Marriage Institute, Wichita

• Dan Lord, Friends University, Wichita

• Ron Nichols, National Center for Fathering, Overland Park

• Wade Horn, Deloitte Consulting, Laytonsville, Md.

• Linda Malone-Colon, National Center for African American Marriages and Parenting, Hampton, Va.

• Chuck Donovan, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

• Bill Doherty, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.

• Jeff Kemp, Stronger Families, Redmond, Wash.

• Christelyn Karazin, No Wedding No Womb, Temecula, Calif.

• Chuck Stokes, University of Texas, Austin.

• Alan Hawkins, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Randy Hicks, Georgia Family Council, Norcross, Ga.

• Mike McManus, Marriage Savers, Potomac, Md.

• Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Manassas, Va.

• Helen Alvare, Institute for American Values, Arlington, Va.

• David Lapp, Institute for American Values, N.Y.

• David Blankenhorn, Institute for American Values, N.Y.

• Elizabeth Marquardt, Institute for American Values, Highland Park,Ill.

• Alana Stewart, Institute for American Values, Brooklyn, N.Y.

• Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Institute for American Values, Amherst, Mass.

Brownback and SRS Secretary Rob Siedlecki met with the group April 7 at the SRS Learning Center in Topeka.

The governor has expressed strong support for SRS developing faith-based initiatives that promote marriage and fatherhood. Siedlecki has said he intends to do both.

Last month, SRS created a division for promoting faith-based and community initiatives.