Grantees

Sponsor workshops that will promote positive parenting and communications skills, strengthen the school-community partnership and improve family support systems in the community. They will have two sessions of Loving Couples/Loving Children Family Workshops (total of 12 workshops).

Parent support opportunity designed to develop social support, access to community resources and healthy parenting. Learning opportunity for teen parents to develop planning and social skills as they work along side adult mentors. They will plan and off

Continue to develop the program and build on experiences and lessons learned in year one to provide new and expectant fathers in Central Vermont with the resources, support and education to create stable, nurturing family relationships and home environments durnig pregnancy and in the months following the birth or adoption of an infant.

Support New American children and their families. Provide culturally sensitive programs focused on family literacy, parent educaiton and acculturation for our mostly Afraican/Somali Bantu refegee families.

The Talking Room is a walk-in/drop-in counseling clinic for parents who participate in the programs at The Janet S. Munt Family Room. This is the collaboration of NFI VT Family Center and The Family Room. The NFI VT Family Center clinician has expertise in parenting support and healing trauma through counseling. The Family Room is known to be the place where refugees and immigrant parents go. The goal is to increase accessible mental health services for parents and caregivers.

Twogether in Vermont, is a relationship based parenting program four couples raising children together and for staff working in the childcare field.

A parent education and support program specifically for fathers and their children.