Grantees

Capstone Community Action Head Start runs the only state-approved education program for pregnant and parenting teens in Washington County. Our program, The Family Literacy Center, is located at the Brook Street School, in downtown Barre. Here, young parents complete their high school diploma while accessing parenting education, counseling and life skills supports. Children are cared for at Head Start’s NAEYC accredited on-site early childhood development center. Our young parents, ranging in age from 14-21, face many barriers in life that inhibit their ability to be the best possible teachers in their children’s lives. Most have not had the benefit of positive parenting and have experienced trauma and neglect.

The Circle of Parenting Program aims to strengthen parent child relations, social skills and emotional wellness, increase financial literacy, build community connections with the goal of establishing safe, nurturing, stable homes.

NVRH’s Community Connections program supports individuals and families to meet their whole-person wellness needs. Many students and families in the Northeast Kingdom face disproportionate health and social barriers to maximizing their potential, such as social isolation and disconnection, substance use, and marginalization. This new initiative will integrate a Community Health Worker (CHW) at the St. Johnsbury School to meet families where they are utilizing research-informed approaches, such as Strengthening Families, to support child and family well-being. Addressing risk factors for adverse childhood events, juvenile delinquency, truancy, and mental illness, the CHW intervention will support better outcomes for our youth and families.

Offers a variety of courses and workshops to families throughout Central Vermont. The programs enrich families' parenting experiences; enhance understanding about child development and parenting roles and needs; promote healthy attitudes about children and parenting; and through positive interactions offer guidance, support and new skills.

A parent education and support program for families living around the Lund Family Center.

Build protective factors in families and support positive parent techniques that reinforce healthy behaviors and a commitment to positive scocial values. The project includes the evidence-based, model parenting curriculum "Staying Connected with Your Teen".

The goal of this program is to build protective factors in families and support positive parenting techniques that reinforce healthy behaviors and a commitment to positive social values.