Rutland County Parent Child Center

The Rutland County Parent-Child Center is a community-based, private non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and meeting the needs of children, youth and families.

Our Mission

Rutland County Parent-Child Center’s mission is to nurture children and families through supportive positive educational experiences that enhance their success in the community.

Our Vision

All children and families in Rutland County are capable, confident and contributing community members.

Community means many things, and different things to different people. To us, community is a social environment – one with common, and nurturing, bonds. We believe such bonds are both the ends and the means of our work.

For some people, community has been a negative experience. Unhealthy community dynamics can undermine a family’s efforts to change their circumstances. Enmeshment with dysfunctional relatives, environments generating numerous adverse childhood experiences and intergenerational trauma – substance abuse, criminality, domestic violence, hunger or poor nutrition, contempt for education and so on – can lay traps and landmines all around a person at the same time he or she attempts to take steps to become a better parent, return to school or improve a child’s diet and fitness.

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa

We believe that individual transformation is most likely to succeed when supported by transformative community. This involves establishing a new suite of connections – yielding positive social capital that produces sustainability.