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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
- Louis N. Cassett Foundation
- Commonwealth National Foundation
- Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation
- Kiwanis Club of Jenkintown
- Louis Cassett Foundation
- Rotary Club of Hatboro and Horsham
- Rotary Club of Jenkintown
- Skilling Foundation
- Target Stores
- Willow Grove Foundation
- York Children's Foundation
We would like to thank Google for its in-kind advertising support through its Google Ad Grant.
Community Comments
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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
Community Partners
The Center for Parenting Education is proud to be partnered with the following organizations:
