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MISSION STATEMENT

East Windsor Family Resource Center

The East Windsor Family Resource Center will ensure that children are well-prepared in mind and body upon entering school, open to learning, ready to grow and achieve their personal best. This is accomplished through the partnership of parents, educators, and the East Windsor community who embrace the values of lifetime learning experiences.

Goals and Objectives:

To foster the maximum development of children, we will:

Provide parents and families the opportunity to learn skills and behaviors that are consistent with positive parenting and to promote parents as the “first and most important teacher.”

Advocate basic childhood services, including, but not limited, to social, health, nutrition, and education.

Develop a total community commitment, which supports children and families.

Provide opportunities for learning experiences outside the home, which promote positive parent/child interaction, including community and family celebrations, quality childcare, preschool and kindergarten extended day, and the integration of all children.

Seek parental involvement, support, and feedback in determining the needs of the East Windsor children.

It is parents.

It is teachers.

It is the community of East Windsor

It is about our children.

Brief information about the East Windsor Family Resource Center (FRC):

The East Windsor Family Resource Center is located in Broad Brook Elementary School, 14 Rye Street, Broad Brook, CT. The FRC office is in Room 33, the preschool and Extended Day class is in Room One and the FRC Play Group is in Room Two. The telephone number is 860 627-9741. The e-mail address of the Program Administrator, who is Mary Jane (Midge) Pych, is mpych@ewindsor.k12.ct.us.

The East Windsor Family Resource Center is designed to reach out to children and families during the important years before children enter school as well as offering the continuation of services for school-age children and their families. The “Birth to School” FRC was started by a group of East Windsor community volunteers, under the guidance of former Supt. Phillip Morton, whose goal was to ensure that healthy, well-prepared children are coming into the schools, ready to learn, grow and achieve their own personal best. Our current Superintendent, Timothy Howes, is also a strong supporter of the FRC’s goals. The FRC was based on the “Schools of the 21^st Century” concept developed by Dr. Edward Zigler of Yale University.

In 2004, the East Windsor FRC applied and received a grant from the state of Connecticut and became the 62^nd family resource center that is state-funded. The vision guiding the CT. Family Resource Centers is to prevent an array of childhood and adolescent problems by strengthening effective family management practices and establishing a continuum of childcare and support services that children and parents need The philosophical foundation is designed to provide the best possible start for children and families of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups living in the communities in which Family Resource Centers are located. The seven components of an FRC are as follows:

Quality full-day preschool childcare.
Quality school age childcare.
Play and Learn Playgroups/Families-in-Training/Parents As Teachers.
Adult Education.
Support and Training for Family and Center Childcare Providers.
Positive Youth Development
Resource and Referral Services.

Please click on these links to access the Family Resource Center's Staff list and the Schedule of Activities

Please visit this link to view the flyer regarding guest speaker, Dr. Anthony Wolf on Wednesday May, 5, 2010.

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