Family Center of Washington County Vermont

18 hours ago

The Family Center would like to share the following:

For Immediate Release: June 3, 2020

VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFFERS AIDE TO PARENT CHILD CENTERS FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE

MIDDLEBURY, VT -- Parent Child Centers across the state of Vermont are celebrating the receipt of $10,000 grants from the Vermont Community Foundation to help support families with young children during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Parent Child Centers (PCCs) are a network of 15 community-based non-profit organizations, serving all of Vermont. PCCs are the hub of services for families with young children – an actual place in the local community where families are always welcome and can always get the support they need, regardless of economic status or family status.

During the COVID-19 emergency, PCCs have continued to support families in a variety of ways, and the Vermont Community Foundation funding will provide much-needed resources. Donna Bailey, Director of the Addison County Parent Child Center, explained, “At Parent Child Centers, we are accustomed to working with families who are struggling with parenting and/or basic needs. We are adjusting to new ways of doing our work. We have been busy reaching out in new ways to support families as needed. The funds provided by the Vermont Community Foundation allow us to meet families where they are and provide what is needed during this pandemic. It will also help as we come out of the stay home phase of the pandemic and focus on making sure families are getting their needs met and are able to rebuild and move forward.”

A parent who received some needed supplies from the Addison County PCC, wrote, “We just got our box. Seriously HUGE Thank you to everyone who makes this happen. We appreciate all the effort and time that goes into making these. These girls of mine are so happy and engaged right now.”

The Vermont Community Foundation funds will help to bridge the PCCs for a brief period of time, but as PCCs deliver critical state services and support to families with young children, they will look to the State to invest relief funding as well.

Amy Johnson, Chair of the Parent Child Center Network, noted the critical need that PCCs are addressing and will continue to address as we begin the recovery phase, “Communities will need PCCs more than ever after the peak of this crisis passes and it will be critical to get families back on track and return to whatever their new normal looks like. We know that the trauma that children and families are experiencing now will require additional support from PCCs in the long term. PCCs need to be here for the immediate recovery time as well as the long term, and we need to be able to stand strong for Vermont’s children and families. We continue to be committed to doing this work in partnership with the state, and we hope the state will support our efforts to support families with young children when they need PCCs more than ever.”

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Family Center of Washington County Vermont

18 hours ago

The Family Center would like to share the following:

For Immediate Release: June 3, 2020

VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFFERS AIDE TO PARENT CHILD CENTERS FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE

MIDDLEBURY, VT -- Parent Child Centers across the state of Vermont are celebrating the receipt of $10,000 grants from the Vermont Community Foundation to help support families with young children during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Parent Child Centers (PCCs) are a network of 15 community-based non-profit organizations, serving all of Vermont. PCCs are the hub of services for families with young children – an actual place in the local community where families are always welcome and can always get the support they need, regardless of economic status or family status.

During the COVID-19 emergency, PCCs have continued to support families in a variety of ways, and the Vermont Community Foundation funding will provide much-needed resources. Donna Bailey, Director of the Addison County Parent Child Center, explained, “At Parent Child Centers, we are accustomed to working with families who are struggling with parenting and/or basic needs. We are adjusting to new ways of doing our work. We have been busy reaching out in new ways to support families as needed. The funds provided by the Vermont Community Foundation allow us to meet families where they are and provide what is needed during this pandemic. It will also help as we come out of the stay home phase of the pandemic and focus on making sure families are getting their needs met and are able to rebuild and move forward.”

A parent who received some needed supplies from the Addison County PCC, wrote, “We just got our box. Seriously HUGE Thank you to everyone who makes this happen. We appreciate all the effort and time that goes into making these. These girls of mine are so happy and engaged right now.”

The Vermont Community Foundation funds will help to bridge the PCCs for a brief period of time, but as PCCs deliver critical state services and support to families with young children, they will look to the State to invest relief funding as well.

Amy Johnson, Chair of the Parent Child Center Network, noted the critical need that PCCs are addressing and will continue to address as we begin the recovery phase, “Communities will need PCCs more than ever after the peak of this crisis passes and it will be critical to get families back on track and return to whatever their new normal looks like. We know that the trauma that children and families are experiencing now will require additional support from PCCs in the long term. PCCs need to be here for the immediate recovery time as well as the long term, and we need to be able to stand strong for Vermont’s children and families. We continue to be committed to doing this work in partnership with the state, and we hope the state will support our efforts to support families with young children when they need PCCs more than ever.”

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