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September 2020
Dear Family Room community,
In these times, families are carrying more weight than ever to raise their children; health and safety of their family, job and food insecurity, balancing school protocols, anxiety of sniffling noses and playing the role of parent and teacher (not to mention keeping track of the thermometer, hand sanitizer and everyone’s mask!).
Although much of our on site programming is on hold for now, we continue to do our best to support families with these emerging needs. We continue to support over 100 families with food, diapers, masks and other supplies on a weekly basis, we continue to make social connections with parents and are doing driveway visits to see many of our families in person, staff have begun doing traveling playgroups where we go to different communities to read, sing, connect and share giveaways of produce and other supplies.
I want to give a special big shout out of appreciation to the Family Rom staff, who are juggling many of the same challenges, for their incredible flexibility and dedication to supporting families.
Things look a bit different than what we are used to, but our mission is the same. Thank you to all of the contributions of our volunteers, interns, Board of Directors and donors who keep us going and allow us to be there for families when they need us most.
Josh Miller
Executive Director
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