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FAMILY
RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAMS
Connecticut was the first state to
initiate, fund and demonstrate the feasibility of Family Resource Center
Programs directly linked to the local public school systems. The Family
Resource Program Network currently has 60 sites statewide. Based on “The
School of the 21st Century “concept, as developed by Dr. Edward Zigler, Director
of the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy at Yale
University, the programs have development into a comprehensive integrated
community-based system of family support and child development services
located in public school facilities.
The Family Resource
Center Program Components are: Full-time Preschool Child Care; School-Age
Child Care; Families in Training; Adult Education; Support and Training
for Family Day Care Providers; Positive Youth Development and Resource
and Referral Services.
In 1991, ROSCCO
was selected by the Stamford Board of Education as the lead agency
responsible for the administration and implementation of the Stamford
Family Resource Center Programs. ROSCCO established the first Family Resource
Center at the Rogers Magnet School
and the second at the Westover
Magnet School with
the assistance of grants received from the Connecticut Departments of
Education and Social Services. The program components are offered through
collaboration between ROSCCO and the following:
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Care to Care
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Childcare Learning Centers
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Department of Adult and Continuing Education
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Person-to-Person
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Rogers Magnet School Administration, staff and PTO
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School Readiness Council
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Stamford Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Program
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The Stamford
High School
Interact Club
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The Stamford Public Schools
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The Science
Education Center
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Westover Magnet School Administration, staff and PTO
Sheila Glenn, MA, Director, Family
Support Programs,
for further information please call, (203) 323-0681
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