DRCCCRA Receives $15,000 Grant
DRCCCRA Receives $15,000 Grant
DANBURY â The Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) recently renewed a $15,000 one-year discretionary grant to the Danbury Regional Commission on Child Care, Rights, and Abuse, Inc (DRCCCRA). The funds will be used for the Spanish COPES (Communication of Parent Effectiveness Skills) Program.
COPES is for parents and their infants and toddlers. Parents and their young children meet simultaneously, but separately, to learn discipline skills, child development information, and home management skills including budgeting, time management and life skills such as anger and stress management. The program is offered during ten-week sessions three times a year.
DRCCCRA Board of Directors committed to sustaining the program for one year before the FCCF picked up the funding for the program from July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. The Community Foundationâs cycle this time is January 2004 through December 2004. More than 50 families or 100 people have been enrolled in the program since it began in 1999.
Maria Vargas, who is program manager of COPES, has a degree in child development and is bi-lingual as is her program coordinator, Clementina Lunar.
The DRCCCRA is a not-for-profit agency headquarters in Danbury that serves 11 area towns in Northern Fairfield, including Newtown, and parts of Litchfield counties. The commission is a United Way-member agency that seeks to prevent child abuse through supporting parents. Services are provided at no cost to the clients.
The Fairfield County Community Foundation is a growing community foundation with assets of more than $50 million in more than 185 different donor funds established by individuals, organizations, families, and corporations to serve Fairfield County now and in the future. Through the Community Foundation, donors support programs in arts, for children and youth, women and girls, community and economic development, the environment, and health and human services. The grant to DRCCCRA was made possible partially by an individual FCCF donor advised fund holder.
In the past year the FCCF awarded grants to nonprofit organizations totaling almost $7 million, according to Wilmot Harris, foundation board chairman.
For more information about the Fairfield County Community Foundation, call 203-834-9393 or email info@fccfoundation.org.