Artilces and Workshops

The Children's Cabinet here in Reno is a = nonprofit=20 agency that functions as a family resource center, in concert with many = local=20 agencies and groups. You could contact them at The Children's Cabinet = (I'd=20 suggest contacting the executive director), 1090 S. Rock Blvd., Reno, NV = 89502.=20 Their phone number is 775.856.6200. (They also have a spin-off branch at = Lake=20 Tahoe, in Incline Village.) They provide childcare resources and = referrals,=20 family counseling, educational tutoring, and parenting education, as = well as a=20 number of other programs for youth and families. You can learn more at = their=20 website, www.childrenscabinet.org.

I got my start in parenting education and = counseling at=20 the Cabinet, and they have been an invaluable resource for my = community.

Cheryl Erwin

Reno, NV

- ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C4022E.4DA003A0-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:47:12 -0800 From: "Laurie Prusso" Subject: Re: (posdis) Lecture in Seattle This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_01ED_01C402B8.5C73AFA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MessageThat's quite an impressive group you will be with! Laurie Prusso, Livermore CA 94550 Phone 925-449-7117 FAX 925-443-6225 note: new e-mail address tchrlaurie@comcast.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jane Nelsen=20 To: posdis@lists.xmission.com=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:35 PM Subject: (posdis) Lecture in Seattle Hi All, Those of you who live in the Seattle area might be interested = in a lecture I'm doing on March 31. I'll be in Mountain View (near San = Jose, CA) March 2. Information can be found at = http://www.toolsforparents.com If you (or any of your friends) attend, = be sure to say hello. :-) Jane Nelsen - ------=_NextPart_000_01ED_01C402B8.5C73AFA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

That's quite an impressive group you = will be=20 with!

Laurie Prusso, Livermore CA 94550
Phone 925-449-7117
FAX=20 925-443-6225

note: new e-mail address

tchrlaurie@comcast.net

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Hi = All, Those of=20 you who live in the Seattle area might be interested in a lecture I'm = doing on=20 March 31. I'll be in Mountain View (near San Jose, CA) March 2. = Information=20 can be found at http://www.toolsforparents.com =20 If you (or any of your friends) attend, be sure to say hello. = :-) =20 Jane Nelsen

- ------=_NextPart_000_01ED_01C402B8.5C73AFA0-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:05:24 -0600 From: Mary Jamin Maguire Subject: Re: (posdis) Family education centers/family resource centers > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - --MS_Mac_OE_3161347524_6184340_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Jody- Lynn Lott's article, "Organizing in the Community," in Adlerian Family Counseling, edited by Oscar C. Christensen and Thomas G. Schramski has been useful to me. We are in the midst of starting an "FEC" here in Minneapolis and would love to collaborate. mary J. Maguire on 3/4/04 3:50 PM, Jody McVittie at jmcvittie@att.net wrote: Hi all, Our community is hoping to get a family education center or family resource center started. Any of you have experience with this? Any must reads? or sources for excellent information? Other advice? Thanks Jody in Everett, WA - --MS_Mac_OE_3161347524_6184340_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: (posdis) Family education centers/family resource centers</TITLE= > </HEAD> <BODY> Jody-<BR> Lynn Lott's article, "Organizing in the Community," in Adlerian F= amily Counseling, edited by Oscar C. Christensen and Thomas G. Schramski has= been useful to me. We are in the midst of starting an "FEC"= here in Minneapolis and would love to collaborate.<BR> mary J. Maguire<BR> <BR> on 3/4/04 3:50 PM, Jody McVittie at jmcvittie@att.net wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Hi all, Our community is hopi= ng to get a family education center or family resource center started. Any o= f you have experience with this? Any must reads? or sources for excellent in= formation? Other advice?<BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">Thanks<BR> Jody in Everett, WA<BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> </BODY> </HTML> - --MS_Mac_OE_3161347524_6184340_MIME_Part-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:14:32 -0800 From: Pomerantz <hectic@mail.cruzio.com> Subject: Re: (posdis) Family education centers/family resource centers - --============_-1133579615==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Hi Jody, Charge on- what a great thing to do! A lot more human than land use planning! (great Jody highlight in the March PD Newsletter!) Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that they are heavily dependent on government funding.... Do you know of any level governments with money right now? It seems that there are more and more of this generation of the super rich that wants to give back philanthropically, so try to get folks like that involved. Going for the local givers and making it a community endeavor, grass roots wise, may give it greater odds in these times of meager resources and greater demand. You may already be far along. I love what a community hub the centers can become. Here in SC Co. over the years the little centers have merged under the largest non-profit social service agencies in the county . I'm on the Community Action Board and one of our programs is the Davenport Community Resource Center- the farming/cement community up the coast, a huge myriad of services is offered, more with time and networking and fund developing. However we are facing one of the greatest budget crisis this state has ever seen. Our sister organization, Community Bridges has as one of its programs, the Live Oak Family Resource Center, Blanca and I will be teaching a class through them in the spring (collaboration with the City School District Adult School Program), paid for by the 1st Five Program (cigarette tax money).. I could give you their contacts info, or would be happy to try and answer more specific questions, love Jane >Hi all, Our community is hoping to get a family education center or >family resource center started. Any of you have experience with >this? Any must reads? or sources for excellent information? Other >advice? > >Thanks >Jody in Everett, WA - --============_-1133579615==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jody, Charge on- what a great thing to do! A lot more human than land use planning! (great Jody highlight in the March PD Newsletter!) Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that they are heavily dependent on=20 government funding.... Do you know of any level governments with money right now? =20 It seems that there are more and more of this generation of the super rich that wants to give back philanthropically, so try to get folks like that involved. Going for the local givers and making it a community endeavor, grass roots wise, may give it greater odds in these times of meager resources and greater demand. You may already be far along. =20 I love what a community hub the centers can become. Here in SC Co. over the years the little centers have merged under the largest non-profit social service agencies in the county . I'm on the Community Action Board and one of our programs is the Davenport Community Resource Center- the farming/cement community up the coast, a huge myriad of services is offered, more with time and networking and fund developing. However we are facing one of the greatest budget crisis this state has ever seen. Our sister organization, Community Bridges has as one of its programs, the Live Oak Family Resource Center, Blanca and I will be teaching a class through them in the spring (collaboration with the City School District Adult School Program), paid for by the 1st Five Program (cigarette tax money).. I could give you their contacts info, or would be happy to try and answer more specific questions, love Jane =20 <excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>Hi all, Our community is hoping to get a family education center or family resource center started. Any of you have experience with this? Any must reads? or sources for excellent information? Other advice? =20 Thanks Jody in Everett, WA </smaller></fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller></= smaller></fontfamily> - --============_-1133579615==_ma============-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:41:12 -0800 From: "Cheryl Erwin" <cheryl.erwin@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: (posdis) Family education centers/family resource centers This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C402E9.D0A7A620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jane W-P, I loved your enthusiastic comments. And it reminded me that the = Children's Cabinet in Reno began with the vision (and a considerable = donation) from John and Paula Dermody, a wealthy local developer and his = wife. They have continued to fund the Cabinet and have convinced several = of their friends to do the same, which has been an invaluable addition = to government and grant funding--which is, as you noted, very difficult = to come by these days.=20 And hey--Bill has lots of dollars! What better use for them than = supporting families? Cheryl - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C402E9.D0A7A620 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Jane W-P,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I loved your enthusiastic comments. And it = reminded me=20 that the Children's Cabinet in Reno began with the vision (and a = considerable=20 donation) from John and Paula Dermody, a wealthy local developer and his = wife.=20 They have continued to fund the Cabinet and have convinced several of = their=20 friends to do the same, which has been an invaluable addition to=20 government and grant funding--which is, as you noted, very difficult to = come by=20 these days. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> And hey--Bill has lots of dollars! What better = use for=20 them than supporting families?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cheryl</DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C402E9.D0A7A620-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:19:04 EST From: KellyGlenn@aol.com Subject: Re: (posdis) Family education centers/family resource centers - -------------------------------1078625944 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/5/2004 10:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, hectic@mail.cruzio.com writes: Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that they are heavily dependent on government funding.... Do you know of any level governments with money right now? Oh, this just reminded me. I was in Target the other day and they have brochures near the exit of the store. One of the brochures was about grants that they give out to communities around their stores. One of the things specifically mentioned on there for grants was "parent education." Kelly Pfeiffer Greenville, SC - -------------------------------1078625944 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUS-ASCII http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; cha= rset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/5/2004 10:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, hectic@m= ail.cruzio.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><FONT face=3DArial>Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gates= <BR>Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that th= ey <BR>are heavily dependent on government funding.... Do you kn= ow of any <BR>level governments with money right now?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></D= IV> <DIV>Oh, this just reminded me. I was in Target the other day and they= have brochures near the exit of the store. One of the brochures was a= bout grants that they give out to communities around their stores. One= of the things specifically mentioned on there for grants was "parent educat= ion."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kelly Pfeiffer</DIV> <DIV>Greenville, SC</DIV></BODY></HTML> - -------------------------------1078625944-- - - To unsubscribe to posdis, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe posdis" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 12:17:44 -0600 From: Mary Jamin Maguire <majama@visi.com> Subject: (posdis) FEC's/target Grants > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - --MS_Mac_OE_3161506664_111623_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Kelly - thanks for bringing this up. I have applied for the Target Grants. They are farily small grants ($100-500/year) and have strict guidlelines - the project must serve the community the specific store serves (small geographic area). A committee of employees from the store makes the decisions - and, as you might guess, some of the stores/committees are very organized and some are not (one Target store I talked to didn't even know they had such a program, even though they had the brochures on display). I have applied twice, to two different stores, and did not get one request (they said they had committments to the area schools), and never got an answer from the other. Certainly worth a try, though. mary J. Maguire on 3/6/04 8:19 PM, KellyGlenn@aol.com at KellyGlenn@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/5/2004 10:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, hectic@mail.cruzio.com writes: Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that they are heavily dependent on government funding.... Do you know of any level governments with money right now? Oh, this just reminded me. I was in Target the other day and they have brochures near the exit of the store. One of the brochures was about grants that they give out to communities around their stores. One of the things specifically mentioned on there for grants was "parent education." Kelly Pfeiffer Greenville, SC - --MS_Mac_OE_3161506664_111623_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>FEC's/target Grants Kelly - thanks for bringing this up. I have applied for the Target Gr= ants. They are farily small grants ($100-500/year) and have strict gui= dlelines - the project must serve the community the specific store serves (s= mall geographic area). A committee of employees from the store makes t= he decisions - and, as you might guess, some of the stores/committees are ve= ry organized and some are not (one Target store I talked to didn't even know= they had such a program, even though they had the brochures on display). &n= bsp;I have applied twice, to two different stores, and did not get one reque= st (they said they had committments to the area schools), and never got an a= nswer from the other.

Certainly worth a try, though.
mary J. Maguire

on 3/6/04 8:19 PM, KellyGlenn@aol.com at KellyGlenn@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 3/5/2004 10:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, = hectic@mail.cruzio.com writes:

Have you approached the Bill and Melinda Gat= es
Foundation? My experience with family resource centers is that they <= BR> are heavily dependent on government funding.... Do you know of = any
level governments with money right now?

Oh, this just reminded me. I was in Target the ot= her day and they have brochures near the exit of the store. One of the= brochures was about grants that they give out to communities around their s= tores. One of the things specifically mentioned on there for grants wa= s "parent education."

Kelly Pfeiffer
Greenville, SC

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I have=20 a very old book called Adlerian Family Counseling, A Manual for = Counseling=20 Centers that we used in Orange County, CA, when we had our FEC there in = the=20 70's. It seems a winning formula and I'm happy to bring it to you = in=20 Portland this week, Jody!

Marti

-----Original Message-----
From:=20 owner-posdis@lists.xmission.com = [mailto:owner-posdis@lists.xmission.com]On=20 Behalf Of Mary Jamin Maguire
Sent: Friday, March 05, = 2004 3:05=20 PM
To: posdis@lists.xmission.com
Subject: Re: = (posdis)=20 Family education centers/family resource=20 centers

Jody-
Lynn Lott's article, "Organizing = in the=20 Community," in Adlerian Family Counseling, edited by Oscar C. = Christensen and=20 Thomas G. Schramski has been useful to me. We are in the midst = of=20 starting an "FEC" here in Minneapolis and would love to = collaborate.
mary=20 J. Maguire

on 3/4/04 3:50 PM, Jody McVittie at = jmcvittie@att.net=20 wrote:

Hi all, Our community is = hoping to=20 get a family education center or family resource center started. Any = of you=20 have experience with this? Any must reads? or sources for excellent=20 information? Other advice?

Thanks
Jody in Everett,=20 WA

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