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Friends of the Family, Inc.
1001 Eastern Avenue, Second Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Voice: (410) 659-7701
Fax: (410) 783-0814
 

          Friends of the Family is a unique nonprofit that works in collaboration with public and private funders and community-based organizations and residents to support families with young children as they strive to reach their goals for their children and themselves, especially goals related to children's emotional, social, cognitive, and physical health and well-being, and parents' education, employment, and parenting.
 
          Friends of the Family as an intermediary organization provides funding, training, technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation, and other quality assurance services to the statewide network of 25 Family Support Centers in Maryland. These Centers serve pregnant women and young parents with children from birth through age three and provide comprehensive, preventive services related to child and parent health, early identification of and referral for developmental delays, improved parenting skills, increased use of family planning, and advancement in education, employment, and self-advocacy.
 
          In addition to its coordination of Family Support Centers, all of which are supported through Friends of the Family with funds provided by the Maryland State Department of Education and/or federal Early Head Start, Friends of the Family trains hundreds of participants from numerous education and social service agencies and child care programs statewide in many aspects of family and child development.
 

          Friends of the Family offers a regional Parent Leadership Institute that develops participants' skills to competently lead their families. The organization sponsors seminars and workshops that feature experts in various aspects of family or infant development; and operates a lending library for early childhood practitioners and those working with young families, including those headed by adolescent parents.
 
Funding for Friends of the Family's web site comes in part from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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