PEP ANNUAL REPORT: JULY 2021 - JUNE 2022

PEP ANNUAL REPORT

A Letter from PEP’s Leadership

Dear Friends,

This year marks 40 years that PEP has provided parenting education and support to strengthen family relationships and help children thrive. Our in-person and online programs, offered directly to parents and via partnerships, help parents and caregivers raise their children to become independent, confident, and resilient adults. Our own resiliency and longevity as an organization has been possible thanks to our committed parent educators and staff, donors, partners and volunteers.

As the challenges for parents and children continue to mount, the need for PEP’s services grow. The children’s mental health crisis, recognized as a national emergency last fall by the US Surgeon General and other experts, presents us with a new urgency to bring our programs to more families, particularly families of color and those living in under-resourced communities.

To meet the need, PEP developed a new program with a stronger focus on helping parents support their children’s mental wellness. We created the PEP Family Resiliency Program, in English and Spanish, with specialized content from our partner Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine. The program launched in the fall of 2022 in Montgomery County and is ready to expand to other communities in 2023.

In the past year we also expanded our partnerships with other nonprofits, such as Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP), Head Start, and Port Discovery Children’s Museum. We continued to offer webinars and online classes to the general public and created a new master class on understanding your child’s behavior. We advanced our DEI work with surveys and focus groups to listen and learn from Black, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern People of Color (BIMPOC) within our community. And we broadened our corps of PEP parent educators and facilitators to include many more BIMPOC parents.

It is no exaggeration to say that our work has never been more vital. In this 40th anniversary year, PEP continues to evolve as we follow the advice we give to parents: we meet the needs of the situation.

Warm regards,

Kathy Hedge Executive Director

Pascale Brady Board President

Responding to the Children’s Mental Health Crisis

See an excerpt from Lesson 1 of the Family Resiliency Program

In 2021, as the pandemic took a further toll on children’s mental health, PEP began developing the PEP Family Resiliency Program. Designed particularly for families in under-resourced areas, this support-group style program helps parents and caregivers help their children cope with stress and anxiety. Offered in English and Spanish, the program includes PEP’s positive parenting approaches plus select content on mental health issues provided by our partner, Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine.

PEP received a $250,000 grant from the State of Maryland, along with grants from Suburban Hospital Foundation and the Mead Family Foundation, to develop and disseminate the program in Montgomery County and other Maryland counties beginning in the fall of 2022. The program’s impact will be evaluated in partnership with NORC of the University of Chicago, an independent research institution.

PEP in the News:

In the past year, PEP op-ed pieces were published in the New York Times and Bethesda Beat, highlighting the role that positive parenting can play to support children’s mental wellness and resiliency.

PEP Latina moms at a PEP Meet & Greet event. All in attendance enrolled in PEP’s Family Resiliency Program.

Reaching More Families Through Partnerships

Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP).

PEP and MHP teamed up to offer PEP parenting classes to Latinx and Ethiopian residents in MHP residences, funded by a grant from the Children’s Opportunity Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation. PEP’s corps of parent educators now includes several Ethiopian parents who deliver PEP programs in Amharic.

View this video testimonial from Netsanet Ayele where she shares her thoughts on her own PEP experience.

“PEP is a great resource for MHP families and is the perfect partner to expand our programs to improve the quality of life and increase opportunities for our resident parents and children.”

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

In FY22 PEP expanded its workplace partnership with USAID, enrolling nearly 700 USAID parents in the PEP program. Participants joined from over 25 countries including Columbia, Germany, Israel, Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, Thailand and the US.

“When I came to PEP, I struggled with my patience with my two middle school aged kids. I was constantly nagging them and frustrated by their mess and lack of help. Through PEP I learned to reframe my engagements with them, focusing on their positive attributes. While I was initially skeptical of this approach, not only did it help me appreciate them and what they did, it encouraged my kids to do more.”

Port Discovery Children’s Museum.

PEP and Port Discovery in Baltimore teamed up to deliver Parents at Play, a program for parents and caregivers of young children to learn positive parenting strategies and how to incorporate play into daily routines. The program is expanding in FY23.

- Sulema Middleton Stewart, MHP’s Vice President of Community Life

New PEP parent educators (from left to right) Meselu Mekonnen, Semehar Teka and Nesi Ayele, along with PEP Program Coordinator Bridget Edwards (standing to the right of the PEP sign) at an MHP Meet & Greet event.

PEP parent educators at a Meet & Greet event with Ethiopian parents.

Patti Cancellier, PEP; Chris Foley, USAID; Colleen Reed, PEP; Nicoletta Pichardo, PEP; and Katherine Garcia, USAID.

PEP Parent Educator Francine Perry leads a Parents at Play ice-breaker activity.

Addressing Critical Issues Facing Families

In FY22, PEP continued its Critical Topics in Parenting live webinar series, addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing parents, caregivers, and children. The program is free-ofcharge to the general public, and, the entire series of live recordings are available 24/7 in PEP’s extensive online video library.

The FY22 Critical Topics in Parenting series served over 2,000 participants with these topics:

• Helping Children Readjust to School

• Breaking Masculinity Stereotypes to Raise Emotionally Resilient Boys

• Is Social Media Friend or Foe? How it Connects Kids & Influences Their Development

• What to Say to Boost Motivation and Build Stress Tolerance in Kids

• Getting Through the Pandemic with Love & Laughter

• Exploring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

- USAID Parent

View an excerpt from Breaking Masculinity Stereotypes to Raise Emotionally Resilient Boys featuring author Andrew Reiner, PEP parent educator and gender issues expert Oswaldo Montoya, and Dwight Davis, Partner, CityBridge Action Fund.

Program Sponsors

Many thanks to the FY22 sponsors of PEP’s Critical Topics in Parenting webinar series:

MOM’s Organic Market

Ruppert Companies

PrepMatters

Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine

Washington Parent Magazine

“Great panel…real life experiences from men with empathy, wisdom, and love.”

Offering Ongoing Support Year-Round

Through PEP’s online master classes, monthly webinars, podcasts, blog posts, monthly column in the Washington Parent Magazine and on-demand video library with 70+ offerings, PEP provides resources for parents and caregivers throughout the year, 24/7. In 2021, PEP developed a new online master class, What Your Child’s Behavior Means, led by PEP parent educator Dana Spencer and video producer Jean Connelly, with assistance from many other PEP parent educators, staff and others. The new class launched in October 2022 to strong reviews.

Webinar Highlight

For Dads: Finding Compassion in the Face of Anger with PEP Educators Brian Lewis, Dave Drazen, Emilio Hernandez, Sidney Locks, and Jermaine Gary

PEP by the Numbers

PEP 2022 Unique Program Participants

4,189

48 SCHOOL & WORKPLACE PROGRAMS

2022 Unique Program Participants

5,259

28 FREE WEBINARS, PODCASTS & RESOURCES

42 WORKSHOPS for PARENTS IN HIGH POVERTY AREAS

45 ONLINE 4-WEEK CLASSES & WEBINARS

70 ON DEMAND VIDEOS

Watch the introduction to What Your Child's Behavior Means, PEP's latest new online master class.

PEP Founder Linda Jessup Recognized

In FY22, PEP Founder Linda Jessup received multiple recognitions for her work by the local community and by a community of her peers.

Linda was selected as a 2021 Washingtonian of the Year. Each year since 1971, Washingtonian Magazine has honored a group of people who, through their leadership, philanthropy, or creativity, have made our region a better place to live. Thanks to Linda’s visionary thinking, PEP has become the region’s premier parenting organization, serving over 65,000 parents and caregivers with children pre-K to college age.

NASAP, the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, awarded Linda Jessup its Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her many significant contributions to the field of parenting, for sharing her extensive knowledge of Adlerian theory and practice through the Parent Encouragement Program, and for living a life that exemplifies courage and social interest.

PEP Parent Educators Win Gold Awards

In 2021, PEP parent educators Paige Trevor and Lynne Ticknor received the Parenting Media Association (PMA) Gold Award for their articles, Who’s the Boss? and Be in the Moment, and PEP Parent Educator Katherine Reynolds Lewis received the Gold Award for her Q&A interview with Michele Borba, Give Your Child the Empathy Advantage. This annual PMA competition evaluates entries for accurate and comprehensive reporting, superior writing, thoughtful analysis and evidence of editorial judgment, insight and enterprise.

Linda speaks at the Washingtonian of the Year luncheon, with Washingtonian Media CEO and Owner Cathy Merrill and host Doreen Genzler at the podium.

Linda accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the NASAP conference with PEP Board President Pascale Brady and NASAP Board President Timothy Hartshorne.

J USTICE D IVERSITY E QUITY I NCLUSION

JDEI – which stands for justice, diversity, equity and inclusion – is a continuing journey for PEP as we work to become a more just, diverse, equitable and inclusive organization. In FY22, PEP engaged Maryland Nonprofits to survey program participants, parent educators, staff and board members. They also conducted focus groups of participants of color and LGBTQ+ parents in PEP’s online master classes to learn what they felt PEP should know about their experience with PEP. (Note: in the Maryland Nonprofits surveys and focus groups, we did not include participants whom PEP reaches through our Spanishlanguage classes or in our new Family Resiliency Program, either because those programs are just starting or because they have been undergoing evaluation and adaptation for several years with our partners.)

This fall and winter, PEP board, staff and parent educators will explore the survey and focus group findings to better understand what our constituents appreciate about our work, and, how we can do better. We are following the same advice we give to parents, which is —listen to understand, with an open mind, and without judgement. Much like parenting, JDEI work is not about the end goal, but about the process. As we reflect on what we have heard, we can understand and make changes over time that will make us a truly welcoming organization.

PEP JDEI TASK FORCE MEMBERS

Susan Milner, Chair and Board Member

Mary Douglas, Parent Educator

Bridget Edwards, Staff

Kathy Hedge, Staff

Emilio Hernandez, Parent Educator

Tory Joseph, Board Member and Parent Educator

Margaret Klotz, Board Member

Oswaldo Montoya, Parent Educator

Maryland Nonprofits Consultants:

Carmen C. Marshall, Erin Donovan, Sydney Biggs

Securing PEP’s Future –the PEPConnects Campaign

In 2020-22, PEP held the PEPConnects Campaign to greatly expand access to PEP parenting support to improve child wellness and resiliency.

PEP supporters Jody and Kathy Dreyfuss provided a matching lead donation and a matching closing donation that catalyzed many additional major gifts by the PEP board of directors and others.

As part of the PEPConnects Campaign, PEP introduced the PEP Founder’s Circle chaired by long-time PEPsters Karen Bunting, Tory Joseph, and PEP founder Linda Jessup The PEPConnects Campaign raised over $1 million to help PEP scale its work to families in our local community, the State of Maryland, across the country, and even around the world.

Linda and David Jessup hosted a gathering in March 2022 attended by many long-time PEP supporters; watch this photo compilation of the event.

PEPConnects Campaign Donors

$200,000 Lead Donor

Jody & Kathy Dreyfuss

$100,000 - $199,999

J.S. Plank & D.M. DiCarlo Family Foundation

PEP Board of Directors: Julie Baron, Pascale Brady, Michele Dreyfuss, Kathy Griffin, Kathy Hedge, Margaret Klotz, Leanne Macdougall, Susan Milner, Kelly Van Orden, Kristen Waksberg

$50,000 to $99,999

Patricia & Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc.

Sara Wagschal & Jay Elinsky

$20,000 to $49,999

Caroline Dixon Bartman *

Bender Foundation

Debbie & Jeremy Brown

Karen & Clark Bunting *

Linda & Ken Button *

Michelle & Peter High

Shana & Todd Jacobus

Tory & Mark Joseph *

Mead Family Foundation

Craig Tregillus *

$10,000 to $19,999

Marcy & Neil Cohen

Brett & Mary Kay Gamma

Lisie & Michael Gottdenker

Linda & David Jessup *

Kim & Patrick Nettles / Progressive Insurance Foundation

Margaret T. Roper & Clifford L. Johnson *

Ruppert Family Foundation

Annie Scheiner & John Mulligan *

Dana & Miles Spencer

Up to $9,999

Stephanie Brown *

Michelle & Jack Dausman *

Robyn, Dave, & Brian Des Roches

Donna & Bill Eacho

Lori Genderson *

Andrew & Karen Green

Sylvia & John Lagerquist *

Lora Lumpe & Jim Cason

Jean Lunning-Johnson *

Judy & David Marwell *

Betsy Mead & Jeff Greenhut *

Jeanette Rosenberg & Russell Perry *

* PEPConnects Founder’s Circle

PEPConnects Campaign Lead Donors Jody and Kathy Dreyfuss.

What Makes PEP Work? Its Peer-Led Model

It’s not always easy to take advice about parenting. One of the key reasons PEP programs work is our peer-based model. PEP classes are led by fellow parents who are relatable and non-judgmental. PEP parent educators come to PEP classes with humility, sharing their own experiences, challenges and lessons learned with humor, enthusiasm, and empathy.

In 2021-22, PEP trained over a dozen new parent educators and facilitators of color as we work to become a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization.

Many thanks to our PEP Parent Educators and Facilitators

Estela Aguilera

Laura Aguilera

Abena Apau Buckley

Rosa Argentina Campos

Nesi Ayele

Jackie Beach

Natasha BlohmHernandez

Pascale Brady

Mabel Calero

Patti Cancellier

Vanessa Chacón

Eileen Chang

Lucila Cordero

Soraida Cotrina Diaz

Seth Crothers

Milagros Cruz

Estela de Fatima

Aguilera Salas

Robyn Des Roches

Lisa DiSciullo

Chris Donald

Mary Douglas

David Drazen

Jennifer Dryer

Mihret Engida

Robbye Fox

Jermaine Gary

Marlene Goldstein

Grethel Gomez

Blanca Guillen

Chrisonne Henderson

Chris Henderson

Emilio Hernandez

Sulema Hernández

Kim Hicks

Carol Hoffman

Maria Iano

Antonieta Jaldin

Leonardo Jaramillo

Paula Jaramillo

Tory Joseph

Milly Kayongo

Dara Kessler

Veronica Khek David

Margaret Klotz

Joselle Lawrence

Brian Lewis

Sidney Locks

Christina Lottie

Wendie Lubic

Emory Luce Baldwin

Gilma Magaña

Lynne Marks

Kathy Matay

Maureen McElroy

Meselu Mekonnen

Susan Milner

Oswaldo Montoya

Jahaira Morales

Carol Muleta

Trish Pannuto

Francine Perry

Nicoletta Pichardo

Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Suzanne Ritter

Elaine Robinson

Brenda Rojas

Donna Sawyer

Annie Scheiner

Visitación Sevilla

Nubia Sosa

Dana Spencer

Semehar Teka

Dawit Tesfaye

Nubia Tijerino

Omar Treminio

Paige Trevor

Jairo Valle

Kelly Van Orden

PEP at the 2022 NASAP Conference

The North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) held its 70th annual conference in May 2022 in Alexandria, VA, attended by 250 mental health professionals, coaches, educators, students, parents and others from around the world. 22 PEP staff and parent educators attended the conference and many presented workshops, which gave PEP an opportunity to contribute to the field of learning in Adlerian parenting education. PEP parent educators and staff who presented at the conference include: Paige Trevor, Pascale Brady, Brian Lewis, Dave Drazen, Jen Dryer, Gabriele Nicolet, Patti Cancellier, Lynne Ticknor, Gabriela Cordero, Laura Aguilera, and Mary Douglas.

“…at NASAP, I attended a workshop presented by Brian Lewis and David Drazen. Brian is a physician and David is an engineer. Both are Adlerian fathers. They both experienced the transformative effects of Adlerian psychology in raising their children. They continued their training in the Adlerian organization called PEP (Parent Encouragement Program) out of the Maryland, DC area. Together they commit their time to leading Adlerian parenting classes for Dads. They helped me understand some of the barriers to men taking parenting classes and how they have worked together to get around those hurdles.”

- Excerpt from the newsletter of Alyson Schafer, one of Canada’s leading parenting experts and author of numerous parenting books including Honey, I Wrecked the Kids and Ain’t Misbehavin’.

Donors and Sponsors

We know that PEP’s work is possible only because of the financial support of our donors and sponsors, many of whom have also taken PEP classes, promoted PEP programs, facilitated PEP classes, and served as a PEP program volunteer. In this 40th anniversary year, we salute the hundreds of donors and sponsors who make PEP’s work possible.

Thank you!

“I am very grateful to (PEP and its parent educators) and for the invitation to participate in the (PEP) workshops. Thank you for everything I learned, your time, your charisma to teach the classes. You are a blessing to the families. All your teachings are based on love. Your way of teaching motivates us to move forward to improve for our children and improve as people.”

Parent from MHP-PEP class

PEP Annual Campaign and Special Program Donors

$50,000 and up

Children’s Opportunity Fund of the Greater Washington Community Foundation

$20,000 - $49,000

Bender Foundation

Mead Family Foundation

Montgomery County Community Grant

J.S. Plank & D.M. DiCarlo Family Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999

MOM’s Organic Market

Craig Tregillus

Sara Wagschal & Jay Elinsky

Suburban Hospital Foundation

$5,000 - 9,999

Caroline Dixon Bartman

Karen & Clark Bunting

Michelle & Mike Fannon

Betsy Mead & Jeff Greenhut

Milner Family Foundation

PrepMatters

Ruppert Family Foundation

$2,500 - 4,999

Anonymous

Katherine & David Bradley

Michele Dreyfuss & Patrick Connelly

Barbara & Don Fairfield

Lynne Marks & Jamie Blech

$1,000 - 2,499

Tish & Bob Best

Linda & Ken Button

Meg & James Cooper

Emily & Dave Demsky

Robyn & Dave Des Roches

Stacey & Jon Fisk

Mary Kay & Brett Gamma

Virginia Grace & Eli Cohen

Kathy and Russ Hedge

Higgs Family Foundation

Iterable Marketing

Chrisy Jelen & John Jaeger

Tory & Mark Joseph

Kathy Slack

Lynne Ticknor & Alan Adamson

Kristen & Mark Waksberg

Nancy & Steven West

Linda & Robert Youngentob

Philip & Marla Zipin

$500 - $999

Timothy & Karen Abrams

Caroline Altmann & Tim Ogilvie

Julie Baron

Pascale Brady

Jennifer Cooper & Jon Coleman

David Dantzic

Tony & Jackie Dobranski

Donna & Bill Eacho

Robbye Fox

Lori Genderson

Joseph & Laura Goldman

Kimberly Hicks

Margaret & Robert Klotz

Sylvia & John Lagerquist

Amy Lear White

Wendie Lubic & Seth Binstock

Lora Lumpe & Jim Cason

Maureen & Paul McElroy

Carol & John Muleta

Kim & Patrick Nettles

Patti Nitterhouse & Dennis Zimmerman

Kevin O’Conner

Colleen & Clark Reed

Stephen Rhodes

Michelle Robinson

Margaret T. Roper & Clifford L. Johnson

Liz & Chris Rugaber

Elizabeth Soltis

Dana & Miles Spencer

Kelly & Nathan Van Orden

Donna & Jonathan White

$100 - 499

Eva Absher-Schantz

Aysegul Acar-Dreyer & Douglas Dreyer

Frances & Dane Badman

Katherine Barnard

Nancy Blanco

Marla Bobowick

Rodolfo Bonacci & Vanessa Prado

David & Nina Breen

Marcia Brown & Alvaro Molina-Cruz

Stephanie Brown

Hala & Stephen Buck

Jeff Bulman, Original Pancake House

Mary Cadden

Carolyn & Rodolfo Camacho

Kay Campbell

Patricia Cancellier & David Friedman

Anne Chan

Eileen & Jouky Chang

Nalini Cherian

Susan Clark

Tina & Rusty Cleland

Virginia & Randy Cohen

Amy Scott & David Cooper

Jane & Tim Cooper

Kathy Cox & Stewart Henderson

Jeneva Craig & Michael Lee

Seth Crothers

Michele & Jack Dausman

Lisa & Michael DiSciullo

Genna & David Drazen

Stacey & Eric Dunn

Sheila Feldman

Rachael & Olivier Fleurence

Nicole Fradette

Linda French

Elizabeth & Robert Gelfeld

Sarah Goldfrank

Frederika Granger

Margaret Greene

Maureen Greenwood & Paul Basken

Barbara Grunbaum

Heather Hahn

Sarah Halpert & Greg Peterson

Clare Herington

Michelle & Peter High

Sarah Himmelfarb

Ellen & Arnold Hoffman

Jean Horan

Tracy Hunt-White

Greg Ip & Nancy Nantais

Nan Iuculano

Molly & Frank Jackman

Susan & Daniel James

David & Linda Jessup

Evelyn Joy & Jay Elvove

Susan & Peter Kahn

Dr. Julia Korenman

Christine & Tim Koubek

Laura Labovich

Leslie Lebow

Julia & Robert Loeb

Ruth Madrigal

Sherry & Bruce Maliken

Michele McNally

Terry Melo

Molly Savitz & Jeff Merkowitz

Gordon Miller

Sandra Moore & Mark Felsenthal

Stephanie & Jonah Murdock

Judy Myers

Kathy & Mark Nelligan

Leah Nichaman

Janine & Phillip O’Brien

Eileen O’Grady

Susan O’Shaughnessy

Trish Pannuto

Mary Parker

Vivienne Patton

Sharon Pohoryles

Elinor & Cayce Ramey

Denise Deconcini & Robert Ramin

Jane Rigby

Connie & Rick Robey

Jeanette Rosenberg & Russell Perry

Caroline Walsh & Gregory Rosenberg

Taryn & Eric Rosenkranz

Frances Rumford

Christina Ruppert

Cathleen Sagrillo & Jerome Budai

Heidi Schadler

Samantha & Orin Schepps

Helen Scheider

Amy Scott & David Cooper

Negin Shakibi

Rhoda & Fred Shulman

Lisa & Steve Sidel

Rebekah Sims

Vita & Doug Sims

Rebecca DeStefanis & John Spirtas

Deidre Swesnik & Nathan Trail

Cecile Poupard-Toner & Charles Toner

Nicole Totah

Clare & David Voss

Marcella Walsh

Patricia Wand

Catherine & Brendan Weiss

Ellen Wertheimer

Cheryl & Fred Wieker

Kathleen Wilcox

Helen & Sandy Wilkes

Mark Willcher

William Wilson & Jen Cohan

Ann Witt

Vida Yazdi

Rinny & Len Yourman

up to $99

Emilio Abate & Carmen Carrera

Zeba Ali

James Barker

Wade Boone & Huong Van

Susan Bregman

Dan Brown

Mary Cadden

Polly Clark

Erin Clinton

John Coequyt

Rebecca Damari

Anne Dievler

Mary Douglas

Juliet Drake & William McClure

Jen Dryer

Edward Elder & Sara Markle-Elder

Robert Etsy

Patricia First

Landis Fisher

Julia Frank & Mark Graber

Kim & Richard Freedman

Louise Freedman

Melissa Garcia

Pastor Bill & Di George

David Givens

Horlando Gomez

Michael & Sue Gottlieb

Michele Greenstein & Paul Coviello

Alex Hedge

Jill Herscot & Andrew Bartley

Consuelo & Brian Heyman

Elaine Ho & Jason Upp

Deborah Hoffman

Celeste Houser-Jackman & Walter Houser

Sarah Iams

Catherine Iversen

Lesley Iwinski

Linda & Kenneth Kaufman

Laurie & Bob Keller

Margo Kelly & Mary Greer

Renana Keynes & John Levinson

Robin & Jonathan Klugman

Martin Kodis & Deborah Ben-David

Antoinette Kranenburg

Rachel Leanza

Ariel & Rachel Levinson-Waldman

Leanne MacDougall

Julie Malloy & Daniel Berrett

Anne & Edward Metcalf

John Moore

Eugenia Moreno

Jeffrey Palmer

Stephen & Lisa Paul

Kathryn Penn

Kim & Stephen Redlich

Laurie Richardson & Ken Maddox

Danielle Rinsler

Frenika Rivers

Elaine Robinson

Deborah Roffman

Donna & Anna Sawyer

PEP Board of Directors

Pascale Brady President

Kelly Van Orden

Vice President

Margaret Klotz Secretary

Julie Baron

Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair

Michele Dreyfuss

Susan Milner

Tory Joseph

Fund Development Committee Chair

Jessica Muse

Governance Committee Chair

Kathy Hedge

Executive Director

Rosemary Schappelle

Caryn & Gary Seligman

Paul Skrabut

Norman Strike

Rollanda Tinney

Paige Trevor

Carrie Ustun

Timothy & Susan Vanderver

Fabrizio Villalobos

Sarah Winfield

Diane Wysowski

Shani Zebooker & Glenn McDonald

Hannah Zollman

In-Kind Donors

Amy L. Griboff

Kenzie Raulin Design

Mayer Brown LLP

Washington Parent Magazine

PEP Staff

Alison Collins

Director of Administration

Gabriela Cordero Rodriguez

Manager of Latino Programs

Melissa Cochran

Senior Education Coordinator

Bridget Edwards

Education Coordinator

Kathy Hedge

Executive Director

Colleen Reed

Program Director

Lynne Ticknor

Education Director

Kristen Waksberg

Development Director

PEP Statement of Activities and Change in Net Assets

PEP Statement of Activities and Change in Net Assets

July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 (Pre-Audit)

July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 (Pre-Audit)

The Parent Encouragement Program is Encouraging. Empowering. Enduring.

40 years of building stronger, more resilient children and families

PEP’s mission is to build strong, harmonious family relationships through parenting education, skills training and support.

We offer evidence-based, culturally competent parenting programs that promote interaction, self-reflection and practical skills and tools to help parents and caregivers raise their children to be capable, confident and emotionally resilient adults.