Families Learning Together

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Families Learning Together is a research-based parenting and life skills program designed to help young parents address barriers to self-sufficiency so they are better able to care for themselves and their children. The program provides participants with a host of supports to help them reach their goals.

These supports include:

• Education to help finish high school or attend college or training programs.
• Worksites and seminars to help develop and enhance job readiness skills.
• Parenting, wellness, and life skills classes to improve the skills and experience participants need to care for themselves and their children.
• Access to counseling, crisis support, and case management to address emotional and environmental barriers to self-sufficiency and effective parenting.
• On-site childcare; breakfast and noon meals; and limited transportation supports to remove barriers to participation.
• Opportunities to interact with other young parents to help them learn to build a supportive network of friends.

All families involved in the Families Learning Together program are working hard to create a better future for themselves and their children despite many participants facing challenges like poverty and past experiences of trauma.

The Family Place is accredited by the Vermont State Board of Education as an Other Educational Program, which allows participants enrolled in classes here to earn credit toward their high school diploma from partnering area high schools. First accredited in 2012, we achieved re-accreditation by the Vermont Agency of Education in 2015.

This year, the program will start on August 29, 2023, and continue (with a Holiday break) until June 7, 2024. Families Learning Together takes place 9:00 am – 3:30 pm. Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, and 9:00 am – 2:30 pm on Friday. It includes a nutritious lunch, daycare for infants and toddlers, and limited transportation supports. Attending Families Learning Together will provide hours of countable activity for participants enrolled in the Vermont Reach Up program.

For more information about this program, please contact Helene Meloche at HeleneM@the-family-place.org