Support fresh food and gardening skills for local families this December! We’re creating Positive Change for the Family Nurturing Center’s Farm & Food Program this holiday season. They provide cooking and gardening skills education and free local produce to families connected with the Family Nurturing Center. They also care for the land at Historic Hanley Farm using low-impact, organic farming practices.

The Family Nurturing Center (FNC) is the Rogue Valley’s Children’s Crisis Relief Nursery. Their mission is “to strengthen families so that children can live safely and develop fully in their parents’ care.” The FNC provides an array of services to support families from therapeutic early childhood education and parent-child mental health, to food and housing assistance and parent mentoring. Their goal is to prevent child maltreatment, break generational patterns of abuse and neglect, reduce the impact of childhood trauma, and support the development of stable, strong families who are able to keep their children safe and thriving at home. The FNC achieves these goals by focusing on the needs of the whole family, and offering the necessary services to keep children safe and families together.

Positive Change funds will be used to support the Farm and Food Program. The Farm and Food Program was designed to provide a supportive, sustainable solution to the food insecurity faced by families participating in Family Nurturing Center services. They address the importance of early childhood nutrition; remove barriers that prevent families from being able to afford local fresh foods; provide social settings for families to prepare and share meals together; and introduce adults and infants alike to the soil, insects, pollinators, old growth sequoia, barn cats, and volunteers that all contribute to the place and production of the FNC farm.

To learn more about the Family Nurturing Center and their programs and services, click the button below.