Still shopping for the perfect gift?

How about the gift of literacy?   

Or the gift of good parenting?

Or the gift of a positive future?

By supporting Family Life Education you will bring these gifts into the lives of children, youth and families in greater Hartford.

You can also honor those you love with a gift and we will be glad to send a notecard created by one of the children whose lives you have touched.

And thank you in advance for your gift.

Children are screened for developmental delays:

• every two months until age 2
• every three months until age 3, and
• every six months until age 6
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  44 children have been referred for early intervention- saving thousands of tax dollars from special education spending
  Parents learn how to help their children speak and read through early literacy and speech workshops like Lee y Seras (Read and You Will Become), Raising Readers and Let's Talk, It Makes a Difference.

This is the type of work supported by Lincoln Financial Foundation through their recent grant of $10,000.

One mother now participating in Lee y Seras says: My days were always boring. Then I remembered to go to Family Life Education- an educational program!...

The story of Natasha Mercado, a member of our Teen and Young Parent Support Program and Parkville Family Center participant- moving from fear and depression to empowerment, self-efficacy and a new world view- are featured in Hartford Foundation for Public Giving's 2010 Annual Report. The Parkville Family Center is supported through the Brighter Futures Initiative of Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. You can see Natasha's son Jovan's face beaming, however, things were not always so bright for Natasha ...

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.