EPIC – Every Person Influences Children, is headquartered in Buffalo, NY and has PIRC offices throughout New York State (Bronx, Queens, Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, Syracuse, Fallsburg, Monticello).
The program includes:
EPIC Pathways
EPIC believes in catering to the specific needs of each target group to whom we provide our services, designating these focus areas as pathways. All of our programs are structured to offer flexibility for individual implementations and different delivery models.
Parents join other parents in these special workshops to have fun, talk, and learn about new ideas and skills to become the most effective parents they can be.
- Parenting Infant and Toddler Worshops
- Parenting Young Children Worshops
- Ready, Set, Read
- Helping your Child Succeed in School
- Demystifying the Facts about No Child Left Behind
- Taking Charge of your Child’s Future
More information about Pathways to Parenting
More information about Taking Charge of your Child’s Future
Parents, teachers, and community members participate in training sessions to build leadership ability in their home environment and school community.
- Creating Home/School Partnerships & Parent Involvement
- Facilitator Training
- Parents as Advocates
More information about Pathways to Leadership
EPIC & PIRC collaborate with various organizations to maximize their ability to meet the needs of parents, teachers, and community members and provide support.
- WNED-TV
- New York State PTA
- New York Newspaper Publishers Association
- Parent Network of WNY
- Parents As Teachers
EPIC PIRCs offer scholarships to agencies using the Parents As Teachers home visiting program. Contact Shelley Richards at richardss@epicforchildren.org for further information.
EPIC is a national not-for-profit organization whose mission is helping parents, teachers and community members raise children to become responsible adults. To achieve its mission, EPIC combines an award-winning parenting program with a school-based character education curriculum and offers leadership training in several areas.
EPIC PIRCs provide learning experiences for parents to help their children become all they can be. PIRCs offer parenting workshops, trainings, and resources to help children succeed in school and in life.
Visit the EPIC website for more PIRC information
EPIC & PIRC Resources
Click here for a listing of parenting tips, resources for teachers, resources & downloads, and other related tools to help you with the most important job you will ever have, being a parent.
Research and Evaluation
All EPIC programs and services are evaluated for their effectiveness including a four-year longitudinal quasi eperimental design study. This examines the impact of EPIC programs supporting school readiness for children of the parents served.
More information about EPIC Research and Evaluation
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