EPIC – Every Person Influences Children, is headquartered in Buffalo, NY and has PIRC offices throughout New York State (Bronx, Queens, Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, Syracuse, Fallsburg, Monticello).

EPIC provides a variety of services to families, schools, and communities with the common goal of increasing family engagment in education and improving student acadmic achievement. All its programs are structured to offer flexibility for individual implementations and different delivery models.

Parents are invited to participate in these interactive discussion groups to share their parenting concerns, learn from other
parents, and gain the confidence and skills necessary to become the most effective parents they can be.

• Ready, Set, Parent!
• Ready, Set, Read
• Parenting Young Children Workshops
• Helping you Child Succeed in School
• Demystifying the Facts about No Child Left Behind
• Taking Charge of you Child's Future
  

More information about Ready, Set, Parent!

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EPIC offers specialized trainings to help strengthen the partnerships between families, schools, and communities,
while supporting the development of leadership skills within their home environment and school community.

• Family Engagement Series
  • Creating Home-School Partnerships & Parent Involvement
  • Parents as Advocates
    
• Facilitator Training
  
  

More information about Family Engagement Series

More information about Facilitator Training

EPIC & PIRC collaborate with various organizations to maximize their ability to meet the needs of families, schools, and communities, and provide support.

• WNED-TV
  
• New York State PTA
  
• New York Newspaper Publishers Association
  
• Parent Network of WNY
  
• Parents As Teachers
  

EPIC PIRCs offer scholarships to agencies using the Parents As Teachers home visiting program. Contact Shelley Richards at richardss@epicforchildren.org for further information.