Local Service Organizations Represented
Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF)
CLiF's mission is to nurture a love of reading and writing among low-income, at-risk, and rural children up to age 12 throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Since 1998 CLiF's inspiring literacy programs and its 68 professional presenters (authors, illustrators, poets, and storytellers) have served more than 250,000 children in 420 communities across the Twin States, and CLiF has donated almost $8 million in new books to those children who need them the most: children in shelters and low-income housing; refugee and foster children; children in rural communities with limited resources; children of prison inmates; and many others.
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Join us in supporting CLiF by bringing a new children's book for donation to the conference! We will be collecting them at the registration desk.
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Contact Information:
Duncan McDougall
Executive Director
Children’s Literacy Foundation
1536 Loomis Hill Road
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
802-244-0944
Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley
Good Beginnings serves local families with new babies by providing hands-on support, education and community outreach. Building on a long and trusted history of supporting families in our community, we are committed to continuing our efforts to meet the changing needs of families in the 21st century. Any family with a new baby can benefit from the support of Good Beginnings. GBUV is an organization families can trust to be dedicated to educating and empowering families from a baby’s earliest days. Every family deserves to be treated with respect. Families can depend on GBUV to be compassionate and non-judgmental in responding to each unique request for service. We believe families thrive when their communities are strong. GBUV strives to act as a responsible member of the community, in which it serves, forging relationships and fostering collaboration among a network of agencies serving young children.
Good Beginnings would not exist without its volunteers; from the Board of Directors to the committed group of trained home visitors who are matched with families. For more than a quarter of a century, volunteers have been the driving force responsible for Good Beginnings’ success.
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93 Main St, Lebanon, NH, 03784
Tel: 603-298-9524
The Family Place
The Family Place is a private, non-profit organization and one of 15 legislatively-designated Parent Child Centers in Vermont. As such, we play a vital role in our community’s social safety net. Our work involves a whole-family approach to helping children thrive. We work with children and caregivers together, promoting positive parenting strategies and ensuring that children have the kinds of experiences that support their physical development, their social functioning, their ability to learn, and their long-term health. Through home visits, early intervention for infants and toddlers with developmental delays, nursing services, parenting classes and groups, treatment for families dealing with the trauma of sexual abuse, assistance with child care costs, intensive wrap-around supports for young families in poverty, community playgroups, and more, The Family Place partners with families to increase the presence of “protective factors”, things that all families need to be strong and thrive.
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Contact Information:
Address: 319 US Route 5 South, Norwich, VT 05055
Telephone: (802) 649-3268
Email: info@the-family-place.org
Website: http://www.familyplacevt.org/
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–4:30 pm
Upper Valley Haven
Our vision is to create a community where people find hope and discover possibility. The Upper Valley Haven is a non-profit, private organization that serves people struggling with poverty by providing food, shelter, education, service coordination, and other support. The Children’s Program serves current and former shelter guests by supporting and promoting social and emotional growth through access to positive learning experiences in a safe and stable environment.
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713 Hartford Ave White River Junction Vermont
Tel: 802-295-6500
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30am-6pm, Friday 8:30am-4pm
WISE
WISE leads the Upper Valley to end gender-based violence through survivor-centered advocacy, prevention, education and mobilization for social change. We envision a world of freedom, justice, equality and dignity where all thrive.
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38 Bank Street, Lebanon, NH 03766
24 hour crisis line: 866-348-9473
Tel: 603-448-5922 • Fax: 603-448-2799
Program Center hours: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm
National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools
Tel: (603) 277-9594
Special Needs Support Center
