About Us
Strengthening Families
We are the Vermont Parent Child Center Network, originally created by four innovative thinking Parent Child Center leaders in 1986, and then delegated by Vermont State Statute in 1988 to become the current fifteen legislatively designed centers that now serve children and families throughout all of Vermont.
Individually, we are fifteen (15) independent, locally based nonprofit organizations, each providing a wide range of supports and services for parents and caregivers with young children. We are unique in design and responsive to the specific needs of our local communities. United, we are the Vermont Parent Child Center Network serving ALL of Vermont with a shared vision, philosophy, and purpose through the delivery of our eight (8) Parent Child Center Core Services: Parent Education, Family Support, Home Visits, Early Childhood Services, On-site Concrete Family Supports, Play Groups, Community Development, and Information & Referral.
Our goals are to help all Vermont’s families with young children get off to a healthy start; promote well-being; build on family strengths, and prevent problems, i.e. illiteracy, poor health, welfare dependency, family violence, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, that have proved to be so costly to our society in both human and financial terms.