Become an advocate for your child:

Local School Involvement Opportunities

Parents have many opportunities to provide their input in school-level decision making. These include membership and participation in the school PTA, serving on the School Improvement Team, and participation in any other group or team the individual school forms to include parents in its support of learning.

For more information, contact your school’s PTA president and/or your child’s school administrator.

Be Involved with the GLCPC

*Opportunities available to be part of developing a Coordinated Family and Community

   Engagement Strategic plan for Andover/North Andover, Methuen and Lawrence.

   E-mail: Erin Mulcahy at Greater Lawrence Community Partnerships for Children

   (GLCPC) at: emulcahy@glcac.org  if you are interested.

*Volunteer at one of the schools in your community

*Contribute to GLCPC by Sponsoring an at risk child in an early learning program

  ($39 a day) Sponsoring a book for a class @ $100

COMPASS for Kids

Diversity

*Diversity Matters-website

Ebooks

*Read with me Ebooks - interactive books for parents and teachers of children ages 3-4.

Educational Games

Health

*Gerber Start Healthy Stay Healthy-

As a parent, you want to do the very best for your little one. And one of the best things you can do is guide him on the road to good nutrition and healthy development. But how do you know you’re making the right decisions? For moms throughout the United States, the answer is the Start Healthy, Stay Healthy™ Nutrition System—a trusted resource you can rely on to help you choose what’s best for your child’s nutrition.

Nestlé’s acquisition of Gerber in September 2007 brought together two of the world’s leading experts in early childhood nutrition. And it gave us the opportunity to focus our leadership on one of America’s major challenges: filling the nutrition gaps and improving the poor eating habits of infants and young children.

Start Healthy, Stay Healthy is our response to this challenge. The Start Healthy, Stay Healthy Nutrition System is an innovative approach which helps you choose the right nutrition for your baby based on his stage of development. Only Gerber offers a unique stage-based system with products, and feeding and nutrition guidance to support healthy growth and development and encourage healthy eating for your child from birth to 4 years.

Lawrence Community Works

*September 2011 - Lawrence Community Works is Now Leasing Commercial Space - Flyer in English

*September 2011 - Lawrence Community Works is Now Leasing Commercial Space - Flyer in Spanish

Literacy

*Children's Literacy Publications- helping parents and teachers create better readers

*Community Play Things- Collage can be a valuable staff development tool for your program. Each issue includes the theory behind the topic, practical applications and links to lots of resources you won’t want to miss. Best of all, it’s free.

*National Center for Family Literacy- is a leading national nonprofit organization with an incredible mission: we are building a more literate and prosperous nation by helping parents and children learn together. 

Parent Choices

*naccrra-the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, is our nation's leading voice for child care. We work with more than 700 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies nationwide

*Parents Helping Parents Offical Website- (PHP) is a non-profit, community-based, parent-directed family resource center. PHP provides lifetime guidance, supports and services to children with any special need, their families and the professionals who serve them.

*Parent Helping Parents Literacy Booklet

*Parent Helping Parents Local Groups- find a local parenting group near you!

*Parents Helping Parents Website - another helpful parenting website.

*Parents Place website - Massachusetts Parent Information & Resource Center (PIRC).

*The Parent's Stress Line-Parents Helping Parents offers Statwide Parent Support Groups and a 24 hour Parental Stress Line 1-800-632-8188.

Parenting Ideas

*One Touch Job- an online resource for real parents.

*Parentingideas.com - raising kids to thrive. The Best of Healthy Kids booklet at this link.

*Thinkfinity- is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.  

Parenting Resource Centers

*NH State PIRC- Parent information Resource Center for New Hampshire

Safety

*Home Safety Council - The Home Safety Council (HSC) is the only national nonprofit organization solely dedicated to preventing home related injuries that result in nearly 20,000 deaths and 21 million medical visits on average each year. Through national programs, partnerships and the support of volunteers, HSC educates people of all ages to be safer in and around their homes. The Home Safety Council is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization located in Washington, DC

School Readiness

*Live United- A Collective Promise to Boston's Children Launched in 2008 by United Way and the City of Boston, Thrive in Five is a 10-year effort that for the first time aligns families, educators, health care and human service providers, the private sector, and city departments – working in collaboration with state agencies – to ensure that all children will be ready for sustained school success.