Last winter, I applied for and won the $3000 Libraries Transforming Communities grant. I planned to host a series of virtual conversations with young families, thus combining community engagement and conversation with some of the principles of early literacy.  My experience of parents who are new to parenting is that the connection with other parents is invaluable.  Just knowing that other parents are having similar experiences is heartening, and often conversations will spark new ideas for successful parenting.  Unfortunately, even with a grant that helped to provide digital access, I didn’t get a great turnout for my virtual events.  The engagement I had with families was rich, but they weren’t engaging with each other. I’ve recently transferred the conversation project to an in-person, outdoor program and am having much more luck engaging with lots of families, but it’s not the focused conversation opportunity I was hoping for.

This year we are trying something a little different. Please try it with us!

1. Each month for the next three months, we'll be thinking about different topics.  March's topic is Summer Reading.

2. We invite you to pick among a menu of webinars or articles related to this month's topic from this list.
Only choose the webinars or articles that interest you!
 
3. Join us for a debrief session! These will be informal discussions around each topic.