The Lamoille Family Center will offer a free parenting class and pizza dinner! The parenting workshop is entitled - Advocating for Your Child. If you don’t advocate for your child – who will? In this interactive workshop, parents will explore skills they can use to become more effective advocates for their child. Topics for this workshop will include: What is advocacy? How do I communicate more effectively? Why is validation and effective communication so important to successful advocacy? Advocating for Your Child will be held on Tuesday, October 14th from 6-8 pm at the Lamoille Family Center. This workshop is hosted by the Lamoille Family Center and presented by Vermont Family Network! The class is free and free childcare is available! To register, please call the Lamoille Family Center at 888-5229.

This program is sponsored by the Lamoille Family Center. Funding is provided by the VT Children’s Trust Foundation, the Green Mountain Fund of the VT Community Foundation and Building Bright Futures through the VT Child Development Division.

The Lamoille Family Center, established in 1976, affirms the right of all children to grow up in an environment that enables them to become healthy adults by encouraging, educating and celebrating families. As one of fifteen Parent Child Centers across the state, the Family Center offers early care and education services, home visiting, parent education, playgroups childcare resource and referral, youth services, and emergency assistance.