Programs

An award-winning, seven week nutrition education program, dubbed Supper-in-a-Sack that includes nutrition education, hands-on meal preparation, sit-down lunches, and sessions on improving life-skills.  Its spin-off for teens called Teen Cuisine that shows teens how to prepare some simple, nutritious recipes while they are home alone...and not burn the kitchen down.

A home visiting program for pregnant women or women who have babies under four years old--the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program, through Vanderbilt University, to improve health and child development.

A respite program offering a short period of rest and relief for parents who have children with emotional and behavioral challenges.

Summer camp for kids. 

Kid-friendly space for After School Programs. (Brittany Hall and Adam Hannah worked with Afterschool Facilitator Jenta Chapman and VISTA volunteer Tracie Blummer, to create digital stories about their participation in the After School Program.  You can see them by clicking on the pictures below (enable ActiveX controls) or here:

A "Survival Skills for Women" program including 10 weekly, four-hour scripted workshops on topics such as assertiveness, child management, money management, self-advocacy, legal rights, coping with crisis, etc....with lunch.

Computer training in our 12 station, up-to-date computer lab.

Read-Aloud training to help parents learn how to read to their children in a way that is enjoyable to both and profits child development.

A quarterly newsletter called NoteABLEs.

Instruction in infant massage to teach parents how to sooth colicky babies and bond with their infants.