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Our Mission
The mission of The Center for Parenting Education is to educate and support parents to raise their children in emotionally healthy ways. Our goal is to provide information and skills in a safe and nurturing environment that encourages parents to grow, change and make connections with other parents.

Our programs, led by certified Parenting Educators, are lively and interactive and enable participants to share experiences and learn from each other. Parents are given opportunities to practice the skills they learn so that they will come away with information that they understand, remember and can apply in their everyday lives with their children. By emphasizing the importance of providing children with a balance of unconditional love as well as the need for setting firm and reasonable limits, we strive to empower parents with the skills necessary for raising responsible children in today's world.

The Center for Parenting Education, a not-for-profit agency founded in 1997, provides programs at our location in Abington, Pennsylvania, and at other sites in the surrounding communities as well as over the internet through on-demand programs and live on-line events.

Funding and Support

The Center for Parenting Education is an independent organization whose main sources of funding include grants, private donations and in-kind support as well as program fees, membership and fund-raising efforts.

We would like to express special gratitude to our founding sponsor, Abington Memorial Hospital, for its generous and on-going support in the form of marketing on our behalf, printing of our literature, graphic design and access to their resources and medical staff.

We would also like to recognize the following grantors who currently support our mission through their financial donations:

• Abington Bank
• Boeing Employee Community Fund
• Department of Community and Economic Development through the office of State Representative Josh Shapiro
• Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation
• Louis Cassett Foundation
• Rotary Club of Jenkintown
• Target Stores
• Willow Grove Foundation

Community Recognition and Awards

The Center for Parenting Education has been recognized by the following organizations for its outstanding support to families and its vital and invaluable service to its community:

Community Partnership for Youth and Adults (CPYA), 2006

Abington Township Economic Development Committee Non-Profit Business of the Year Award, 2007

Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Certificate of Merit, 2000 and 2004

Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U. S. House of Representatives Congressman Joseph Hoeffel, 2000