All Partners and other organizations listed below are 501(c)(3) public charities unless otherwise noted.





  Children’s Health Involving Parents of Greater Richmond (CHIP) provides comprehensive family support, development, and education by experienced home visitors.




  Family Lifeline provides early childhood and comprehensive family support and education to families from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.




  Friends Association for Children serves as advisor to the Partnership and provides recruitment, referral and placement of clients for needed services.




  Goodwill of Central Virginia provides training and support for job readiness skills.




  Father Focus
Working to strengthen families by strengthening fathers.

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  Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC Virginia) serves as advisor to the Partnership and provides assistance with demographics, housing and funding indicators, and data base information.




  Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) provides 24-hour, 7-day telephone parent support, education, resources and information.




  Commonwealth Parenting Center A non-profit education and resource organization committed to helping parents with the challenges of raising healthy, happy children from infancy to adolescence.




  FAM
"Parenting central" for Fathers and Mothers,
Friends and Mentors,
and families like yours.




  Reach Out and Read Virginia distributes literacy information and books for children to pediatricians for distribution to patients in order to improve family literacy, reading and writing skills.




  Success By 6® is an initiative of United Way that works with community partners to ensure that all children from birth to six in Greater Richmond and Petersburg will be healthy, well-cared for and ready to succeed in school.




  VCU Medical Center serves as an advisor to the Partnership as an advocate for quality health care for children.




  Virginia Literacy Foundation / The Literacy Institute at VCU provides family literacy and parental education services, including the Even Start and Early Reading First family literacy programs.




  North Richmond Reading Foundations (NoRF)
offers literacy training to early childhood educators and assists parents to become better first teachers for their childern. Currently at one school site.



  YMCA - North Richmond provides high quality child care and family recreation, education, and support.






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