Family Connections

The Coalition’s Family Connection’s Strategy Group creates strategies that strengthen and enhance partnerships amongst families, schools and the community.

Our Past Projects

  • “Raising Readers” workshops in Family Resource Centers.
  • “Parent and Child Together Days” at the Family Literacy Center.
  • Developing a “Parent-to-Parent” campaign to promote library use and daily reading to infants, toddlers and young students.
  • Developing the “Passport to Summer Learning” project.
  • Offering “Read and Rise” workshops to parents.

Co-Chair,  Maria Simao, Literacy Volunteers of Central CT
Co-Chair, Marie Mormile-Mehler, CMHA