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Leadership, Direction, Expansion
Seeking the Contributions of an Executive Director

Hand in Hand has grown organically over the past twenty years, gaining strength slowly from a solid foundation of practice. The Board of Directors, staff, and instructor team have decided that it's time to equip Hand in Hand with the resources it needs to grow vigorously.  We want a thousandfold more parents to have access to information and support that will help them lift significant difficulties out of their children's lives, and enjoy the deep rewards of parenting.

The input from nearly 100 stakeholders has helped to shape Hand in Hand's newly adopted Strategic Plan. It will build a robust organization to spread Parenting by Connection widely.

The key areas where we will be focusing our growth over the next few years include:
  • Functioning as a Business While Keeping Our Heart
  • Hiring an Executive Director to Ensure Sustainability
  • Creating a New Marketing Plan & Collateral
  • Identifying, Expanding & Developing Key Leadership within the Organization
The new Executive Director could be working alongside Patty as early as January, 2011. And Patty will continue to train, speak, write, teach and develop curriculum.

We hope that you will continue to be a vital part of our community as we grow, reach out to more parents and continue to provide the resources and support you have come to value.
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"To help a child release the fear lodged in his mind, it usually takes a safe, quiet, relatively unruffled person to anchor him. It's safest for the frightened child when it's his emotion that's the focus, not the adult's upset about what just happened. Of course, for a parent not to be upset after a child has been in danger is an almost superhuman feat." Full Article
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