Parent / Child Playgroup

Weekly playgroups for parents with children age birth to 5 are an education-based, social opportunity for families in the community. Facilitated by a parent educator, playgroup is a place for parents to let their children socialize with peers, for adults to make new friends, and for all who participate to enrich their family lives.

Through Parent/Child Playgroups developmental skills such as social/emotional, motor, cognitive and visual/spatial are enhanced through a variety of activities and environments. Parents are encouraged to engage their children in activities that promote early literacy skills as well as sensory integration and gross motor development. Parent/Child Playgroups provide both parents and children with a support network of peers, which enables them to grow and develop in all of the skills mentioned previously.

Playgroup is open to:

• Families with children 0-5 years old
• Families living in the six town area: Putnam, Thompson, Woodstock, Brooklyn, Pomfret, and Killingly

Playgroup offers access to:

• WIC (every 3 rd Friday at the TEEG site)
• Across the Smiles Dental Van (every six months visits at the TEEG site) to focus on oral hygiene care
• University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Expanded Food and Nutritional Education Program (EFNEP) to provide information on nutritional awareness
• Parents As Teachers (PAT) to provide you with the most current and up to date information about your child at their specific developmental stage

2006 Parent / Child Playgroup Accomplishments to Date: 567 lives touched.