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Title
Welcome to Family Support America
Description
The time: 1981. The place: Chicago. Bernice Weissbourd was a nationally known expert on child development and parenting education. She was a regular contributor to Parents Magazine. She had founded Family Focus, a program in Chicago that met parents’ needs by building on their strengths: one of a small but growing number of family support programs nationally.
But for Bernice, there was so much more to be done. Practically every day, she heard from directors of family support programs across the nation who were asking for advice, looking for funding to keep their doors open, or just wanting to share their promising work with someone who understood.
Bernice saw a movement taking shape. So she invited program directors, academics, legislators, parents, and government officials from across the country to a meeting in Chicago. She expected 50 people. More than 300 came. Local people opened their homes to these visitors because they shared the same hopes and the dreams.
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