Hartford Foundation Supports Parkville Family Center, Coordination of Neighborhood Services

Family Life Education has received two grants totaling $410,000 from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, one for Parkville Family Center programs and one to relocate its offices and further explore development of a collaboration of nonprofit agencies to improve services in the Parkville neighborhood.

The Parkville Family Center, which opened in 2003 as part of the Hartford Foundation’s Brighter Futures Initiative, has been awarded a $300,000 grant to support a wide array of programs that support parents in promoting the healthy growth and development of their children, getting them ready for school and being successful in school. 

Anna and her infant son were living in a shelter when a newly hired Family Life staff member tracked her down

Milagros Acosta, a Family Life Education employee who works off-site at the City of Hartford Department of Health and Human Services Grandparents Program successfully completed the rigorous National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Child Passenger Safety Class with St. Francis Hospital earning a Safe Kids World Wide Certification, making her a Child Passenger Safety Technician!!!! She is the 3^rd bilingual technician in the entire state of CT!!

Milagros is required to co-teach over the next six months and then she can teach and lead workshops on her own.

What does this mean?  Milagros will offer car seat clinics to parents, grandparents and caregiver’s to make certain that children under the age of 6 are traveling in vehicles properly and safely.

Milagros can be reached at 860-757-0853 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to coordinate a workshop at your facility.

On May 26, a team from TicketLiquidators joined forces with Dr. Joanna Gerber, Family Life ESOL teacher and master gardener, to spruce up the garden. Check out the link and see how you too could pitch in, get a great workout and leave a beautiful mark on the world:  http://www.ticketliquidator.com/family-life-education.aspx