Early Childhood

Family Centers

"Beat the Street" Asylum Hill Family Center

Program Description
The Asylum Hill Family Center was designed by parents and community residents of Asylum Hill as a vehicle to strengthen and empower families through family literacy, as well as to enhance the ability of parents/caregivers to improve the school readiness of their children. All of the programs, activities and services that are developed for members of the Family Center are implemented from one of the following categories.

Parent/Child Interaction
•Dinner & A Story: Families participate in structured literacy activities together, share a meal together and participate in "family meeting" which is a purposeful discussion highlighting the activities that occurred that evening.
•Pre-School Play Yard: Preschoolers and their parents/caregivers participate in creative enrichment activities.
•L'il Artist on the Move: Utilizes literacy through the arts (dancing, drumming and singing) to encourage school readiness.
•What's Cookin' in Asylum Hill: Family Interaction using food preparation, cooking and consuming together where cooking is viewed as a shared family experience.
Family Center Café: An opportunity for families to engage in literary expression in the comfort of family fun.

Parent Support & Development
•Parent Empowerment Workshop Series: A 6-8 week series which provides parents with increased skills to assist in their individual family development.
•Women's Empowerment Group: A counseling and educational group in which the goal is to equip women with more skill sets to lead more empowered lives to benefit themselves and their children.

Connecting Families to the Community
•Family Chat: Provides families with workshops on community resources and training on a variety of topics including parenting, health and nutrition, HUSKY, child development, child care, money management, cultural diversity and any other topic requested by parents.

Contact Person
Beverly Callender, Program Director
60 Gillett Street. Suite 101
Hartford, CT 06105
860-244-9944
Fax: 860-244-9943

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