Parenting Workshops

Jacksonville, Florida
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 @ 12:39 PM EST

Jacksonville, FL - Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative, a local pioneering program that offers free screening to identify children at risk of reading difficulty in rising kindergartners, has teamed up with Episcopal Children’s Services and United Way of Northeast Florida to help Jacksonville parents learn how to be their “Child’s First Teacher.” Free parent education workshops are being offered through May, funded in part by the Early Learning Coalition of Duval County.

“We hope many parents take advantage of these free workshops that offer information and tools to tackle behavior management, child growth and development and child safety,” said Laura Bailet, PhD, Executive Director of Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative. “Parents and early child care workers will have the opportunity to speak with child health and development experts in a classroom filled with other parents of young children.”

2008 Parent Training Schedule

• February 11 – “Parenting and childhood safety”
  
• February 28 – “Child growth and development”
  
• March 10 – “Parenting a child with special needs”
  
• April 14 – “Managing your child’s behavior”
  
• April 28 – “Nurturing child development through play”
  
• May 12 – “Social and emotional development of children”
  
• May 19 – “Fatherhood and grandparents as parents”
  

All workshops are held from 6:00p.m. – 7:30p.m. at the Jacksonville Children’s Commission’s Community Resource Room (1095 A. Philip Randolph Blvd). Light snacks and refreshments will be served. A drawing will be held at the close of each workshop for a $100 Winn Dixie gift card.

For more information on this initiative, please contact Nemours BrightStart! at: (904) 858-3118. For media interviews please contact Odette Struys at: (904) 728-1026.

About Nemours BrightStart!
Dyslexia Initiative Nemours BrightStart! Dyslexia Initiative is a project of Nemours, one of the nation’s largest children’s health systems, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Offering free screenings to pre-kindergartners in Duval County, Nemours BrightStart! identifies children at-risk for dyslexia and provides intensive educational intervention, in an effort to prepare them for reading success in kindergarten. For additional information call: (904) 858-3118 or visit www.nemours.org

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About Nemours

Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.

Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.

Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.