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We want to hear how Easterseals Rio Grande Valley has made a difference to you and your family.

A donation to Easterseals Rio Grande Valley is an investment in creating a stronger and supported RGV community. Your gift helps provide life-changing services that empower children with disabilities to live, learn, work, and play to their fullest potential.

Project HOPES is a community-based program providing prevention services that target families with children between 0-5 years of age.

The Easterseals Family Resource Centers (FRC) are located in Hidalgo and Starr Counties and serve as community-based sites that provides a wide range of support services and resources for parents and caregivers of young children. The focus of the FRCs is to promote the importance of child development and strengthen the well-being of the family through parenting workshops, health screenings, counseling, and making connections to other community resources.

The focus of the HIPPY program is to encourage parents to prepare their children for school. We provide them with books and a curriculum that will help their children once they reach school to know their letters and their numbers and their shapes and be prepared.

The Parents as Teachers (PAT) program serves families with children parental through 5 years of age. The PAT program provides developmental parenting instruction and screening for early detection of developmental delays ensuring children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn in their communities.

I found out about the family resources, I didn't know the the pro many of the programs that they had, but I was invited to certain classes. One was financial classes and uh another was a CPR class. So, program like this really help out families like me that we didn't know that there is counseling. The Hidalgo County Family Resource Center is located in McAllen and serves as a community-based site that provides a wide range of support services and resources for parents and caregivers of young children. The focus of the family resource center is to promote the importance of child development and strengthen the well-being of the family through parenting workshops, health screenings, counseling, and making connections to other community resources.