PEP Family Resiliency Program $15,000 Challenge Match! We've raised $3,000 so far, $12,000 to go!

Since 1982, the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP) has provided parenting guidance, education, and support to over 65,000 parents and caregivers to help them raise their children to be confident, capable, and resilient.

Research confirms that strengthening parenting is a critical way to support a child’s mental, social, and emotional well-being and leads to positive outcomes such as higher school achievement, fewer maladaptive behaviors, and stronger resilience. PEP uses a positive parenting approach that promotes warmth, encouragement, and connection with children, as well as limit setting, positive discipline, and mutual respect. Classes include role-playing, self-reflection, problem-solving, and peer support — techniques confirmed by research to be most effective. PEP delivers classes in English, Spanish, and Amharic led by PEP-trained parent educators from those cultures.

The PEP Family Resiliency Program (FRP), combines PEP’s proven parenting curriculum with a delivery methodology developed at the National Institutes of Health and with expertise from Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine. Offered in English and Spanish, FRP is culturally responsive in its content and delivery format. It is designed for primary caregivers of children ages 3 to 18 living in low-income and under-resourced communities, including new immigrant populations.