Health & Fitness
Local Nonprofit Echo Parenting & Education Needs Votes to Win $10,000 Grant
Echo Parenting & Education needs community support to win a $10,000 grant from the Women's Foundation of California.
Echo Parenting & Education (formerly the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting) has a chance to win a $10,000 grant from the Women's Foundation of California through their People's Momentum Award. This award allows the public to decide which organization will receive a grant. To vote for Echo Parenting & Education, here's the link:http://bit.ly/XB3jjj
If you've ever driven by the Methodist church on Alvarado and Reservoir at around 11 a.m. on a Saturday, you may have noticed families of every conceiveable background streaming in and out of the side entrance or chatting to one another while waiting for a homemade pupusa. Most likely, these are parents who have been attending a parenting class or a parenting support group at Echo Parenting & Education.
Echo Parenting was founded 1999 by Ruth Beaglehole, a longtime Echo Park resident who has been an unwavering advocate of children and families for over 50 years. Many people in Echo Park have benefited from Echo's Saturday community parenting classes, offered in both Spanish and English, and the free child care program.
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How we care for children determines how children will care for the world. Echo Parenting teaches parents an approach to caring for children that is grounded in empathy and the philosophy of nonviolence. Through classes, workshops, support groups and individual consultation, Echo Parenting addresses the broad spectrum of challenges that families face, whether it's ending physical violence in the home or understanding the unique needs of a toddler or adolescent.
Echo also trains professionals (social workers, educators, pediatricians and mental health providers) and agencies (hospitals, domestic violence shelters, schools) in trauma informed, nonviolent child raising to ensure that families have the safe, nurturing environment they need to thrive.
Raising children can be difficult at times. Having support in the community and a space to learn new strategies or share frustrations and challenges is an extraordinary gift.
