We want you to be an active member. How? Just contact us and we will fix you up with one of our many projects or initiatives. There is something to interest everyone. No amount of time is too great or too small!
Our Projects & Initiatives
What we do is loosely organized into four categories or "initiatives":
If you don't hear back from someone, please contact any other person listed here for more info. We are all busy parents and sometimes are not able to respond to emails immediately. Thank you!
Community Building
We organize family fun events and participate in community sponsored projects. This is one of our favorites things to do! We develop community calendars and other types of publicity to keep parents informed of town meetings, events and children's programming.
These activities help parents support our children's education. This includes support at home, parent engagement in the schools, and advocacy involvement in the community/ state/ national levels. This is a collaborative effort among WPN, School Readiness Council, Windham Discovery Committee and the Windham Public Schools.
First Day - contact your child's school
One on One Listening Campaign - contact Becky Cronin
We have accomplished our original goal of building a universally accessible playground in Downtown Willimantic. The project is now focused on monitoring and enhancing Memorial Park Playground. There are preliminary plans for a Phase II component. Youth programming at the playground is an addtional goal.
Phase II - new section for older children - contact Pat Calvo
Family Literacy Focus Group
These activities promote reading for the whole family. Our activities help parents support their children's language and literacy development from birth throughout the school years. We encourage positive interactions and learning together, because children's literacy is improved when families read together.
