Maryland Family Network

The Maryland Family Network (MFN) ensures that children ages, birth through five, years and their families have the resources to learn and succeed. MFN is the only statewide early childhood advocacy organization. The TowerCares grant will provide funding for a two-day Parent Café at or near Fort Meade. During the Parent Café, parents of young children learn strategies to increase their knowledge and skills, reduce stress/increase peace and well-being by building family strengths to help reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect, and build a peer-to-peer process which engages parents in meaningful conversations and provides significant opportunities for parent leadership to create Parent Cafés in their communities.