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.