Parenting Place is a nonprofit family resource center strengthening families in Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Our mission is to relieve isolation, reduce the stress of parenting, and prevent child abuse and neglect by providing outreach and a place where families can receive support, education, and develop a sense of community.We are proud members of the Family Resource Center Association. Our family advocates work with parents and families to help them become more self-reliant in the areas that affect family stability, including parenting, health, education, counseling and fulfillment of basic needs.
In 2011, over 2,300 individuals including moms, dads, grandparents, nannies, and children, participated in Parenting Place programs, through an amazing 37,000 discrete points of contact. If you have not been to one of our locations in Boulder, Broomfield, Lafayette, or Longmont lately, you are missing daily play groups and facilitated support groups where parents of all backgrounds meet people, get support, learn, share, and have fun!
And Parenting Place offers a lot more. We continually increase our number of Colorado Bright Beginnings visits to new moms, offer numerous expert presentations on parenting topics, serve more and more people through our donation closet and food pantry, enroll families in Medicaid and CHP+, and provide for utility assistance from Energy Outreach Colorado. Given the increased need in our community, we continue to expand our support programs and increase our capacity to work with families.
Recent strategic initiatives include certification of our family advocates in the Family Development Credential, the launch of The Incredible Years parenting class series, and the roll out of Cooking Matters nutrition courses. We also help parents use the Ages and Stages developmental survey to understand child development just a little bit better.
In response to our community, we’ve added Mandarin, Russian, and Italian playgroups, a LGBT parent support group in partnership with Out Boulder, and a facilitated adoption support group. What’s more, using the Protective Factors Survey, we can show that participants in our facilitated groups improve in the five parenting domains that, when present, are tied directly to a lower incidence of child abuse and neglect.
Our impactful work would not be possible without the professionalism and dedication of our staff, volunteers, donors, and Board of Trustees. Thank you!
How you can help:
• Volunteer. Parenting Place relies on volunteers to offer the wide range of services we provide for families. Contact Sue, 303-449-0177 x0, sue@myparentingplace.org, to learn more about how you can help.
• Donate gently used clothing, toys, strollers, cribs, etc.
• Join or make a monetary donation. We couldn’t do what we do, without the generous support of our community. Thank you! 
Our partners: Colorado Bright Beginnings, Family Resource Centers Association, Foothills United Way
Major funding is provided by: Boulder County, CBCAP, City of Boulder, Colorado Childrens’ Trust Fund, Colorado Health Foundation, Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, Daniels Fund, Denver Foundation, Energy Outreach Colorado, MORE, Rose Community Foundation, Season to Share, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
