Friends with Heart

This year, The Parenting Network incorporated the help of children in our annual appeal. Through the month of October, children across the community, as young as age three, decorated hearts with paint, marker, crayon, pencil, glitter, and ink. These children included those using our Children’s Program while their parents attended a parenting class, middle and high school students who participated in our school-based prevention programs, and children in the lives of our staff and volunteers. Each heart is unique, as is each child. We estimate that over 100 children helped create more than 1,200 hearts for this project.

One unexpected benefit of this project was the fun that was shared with the children as they exercised their creative vision. The little ones tried different color combinations with their scribbles while the older children experimented with different ways of applying paint to paper. Having children assist with this project actually created wonderful moments of fun and opportunities for conversation with their parents and caregivers. This is what The Parenting Network is about – strengthening parenting for healthier families.

Please support The Parenting Network today so that we can continue to provide critical child abuse prevention services to families in our community.

The Parenting Network thanks Catral Doyle Creative, Associated Bag, and Clark Graphics for their roles in this project. We also thank all of the children and parents who helped us create these beautiful hearts!

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