The Family Empowerment Initiative works to establish a peer-to-peer network of ‘Family Leaders’ to provide parenting/caregiver education and family support services and natural supports that are community-based, ongoing, high-quality, affordable, empowering, family and child centered and accessible. An additional goal is to seed trained parent leaders in community based settings who can facilitate workshops to specifically targeted populations.

Wicomico County families/parents/caregivers including high-risk, low income families, caregivers of children with and without special needs, relatives raising children as parents, parents with special needs all residing within Wicomico County with a focus on recruiting from the City of Salisbury area which is identified as the Safe Streets area.