Parents are invited to a free Parent Expo hosted by Project Sussex Kids, the
Sussex County Council for Young Children, and the Sussex County Family Success
Center at Project Self-Sufficiency on Thursday, May 5th, from 5:00 –
8:00 p.m. at Project Self-Sufficiency. The
event will feature updates about nutrition, summer activities for children, health
and wellness, parenting tips, and other information for families. Keynote speakers will address parenting
skills, nutrition, child sexual assault prevention, and resources for families
with special needs children. Participants
will be treated to dinner and goodie bags filled with parenting resources. Free childcare is available upon
request. The Parent Expo is free and
open to families from Sussex and northern Warren Counties, but space is limited
and registration is required.
Therapist, educator and author Diane Lang will offer a keynote
presentation about Positive Parenting, including the role that environment and
role models play in the development of happy, optimistic children. Family Success Center staff members will
offer a presentation about the Enough Abuse program, a community-wide education
effort which aims to mobilize adults and communities to prevent child sexual
assault by increasing awareness of the warning signs displayed by predators and
as well as victims. The New Jersey
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will conduct an information session
about current nutritional guidelines for children and adults, including how to
select, purchase and prepare appropriate food, and how to manage a food budget
using SNAP benefits. A discussion of
local resources for special needs children will be offered by the Hardyston
Special Education Parent Advisory Group.
In addition to Project Self-Sufficiency, organizations who will host information
tables at the event include American Red Cross; Birth Haven; Caring Partners of
Morris and Sussex; Center for Prevention and Counseling; CLEAResult; Diane Lang
Counseling; Division of Child Protection and Permanency; Family Intervention
Service; Family Partners of Morris and Sussex; Family Promise; Girls Scouts of
Northern New Jersey; Hardyston Special Education Advisory Group; Kinship
CarePlus; Legal Services of Northwest New Jersey; NAMI Sussex; NJ Shares; NJ
SNAP-Ed Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Sussex County; Parent Interactions
with Schools/Teachers; Planned Parenthood; Project Self-Sufficiency; Project
Sussex Kids; Project Self-Sufficiency Garden Club; Sussex County Library;
United Way of Northern New Jersey; NJ Success by 6; Sussex County Special Child
Health Services; Sussex Warren Chronic Disease Coalition; Sussex County Office
of Public Health Nursing/NJ CEED; and others.
“The Parent Expo gives parents the opportunity to interact with experts
in a variety of fields, and to ask questions and get information about issues
faced by their families,” explains Deborah Berry-Toon, Executive Director of
Project Self-Sufficiency. “We are
grateful for the participation by the health organizations and social service
agencies in our community, and we are looking forward to a wonderful and
informative evening.”
The Sussex County Family Success
Center at Project Self-Sufficiency is part of a network of Family Success
Centers across the state whose purpose is to strengthen families and neighborhoods;
develop networks of family services that foster healthy families; and to build
connections within families, between families and to the community. The Family Success Center provides a wide
range of services to participating families, including assistance with
healthcare, substance abuse prevention services, career planning, job training,
parenting workshops, and life skills training.
Project Sussex Kids is the Sussex County Council for Young Children, a
program funded by the New Jersey Department of Children & Families to
address the needs of local families who are expecting or who are currently
parenting children.
Participation in the Parent Expo is free and open to the
public, but space is limited and registration is required for attendance. To register for the Parent Expo, or for more
information about the programs and services available at Project
Self-Sufficiency, call 973-940-3500 or 844-807-3500.
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