Family Connections Center

Family Support Services: FCC recognizes that a childs first years are crucial to life success, and had developed programs that provide learning and develpmental support to young children and their families. We sucessfully support parents and caregivers with unique needs as they nurture and reaise their children, by addressing the full range of the childs social, emotional, and cognitive requirements. Particpants were served through a variety of Family Support programs beginning with prenatal programs; programs serving infants, toddlers and their parents/caregivers; health and wellness programming; intensive case camagement and family advocacy; community events; and more. Educational Services: Our Education programs provide vital, high quality early childhood education and supplemental prgrams for children in preschool and grades K-5. Hundreds of children participated in our Education programming, including our family pre-school readiness program for 3-4 year olds; our licensed Pre-K; our aftershool Homework Club for children in K-5th grades; our Summer Academic Enrichment program; and our Saturdayy Chinese School which provides 3 levels of Mandarin language instruction. Healthy Connections: We work collaboratevely with local populations to identity relevant needs and solutions, including the special health and wellness needs of preganant mothers and parents/caregivers of infants and young children. By working with parents/caregiers during the first years of childrens lives in a culturally sensitive and community inclusive way, FCC alleviates the stressors that frequently impair child development while providing opportunities for families to build strong homes in shich to raise healthy children. Hundreds of participants were served through a variety of Healthy Connections programs including disease prevention workshops and clinics; excercise classes; healthy eating, nutrition and cooking classes; peer-support activities; and more.