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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) 975-9559
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