WELCOME TO EPIC!
EPIC - Every Person Influences Children, Inc. is a national not-for-profit organization that provides effective programs and resources for parents, teachers, and school administrators that help adults raise responsible and academically successful children.
Simply stated, EPIC's mission is helping parents, teachers, and community members raise children to become responsible adults. To achieve its mission, EPIC combines an award-winning parenting program with a school-based character education curriculum and offers leadership training in several areas.
EPIC HISTORY
EPIC was born out of a tragedy experienced by founder, Robert Wilson, whose wife was murdered in 1977 by a 15-year-old neighbor, a foster child who they had befriended. How could the boy perpetrate such a crime on someone who trusted and cared about him? Investigations of the child’s life indicated that he had been abused, neglected, and placed in 11 different foster homes. He did not experience or understand love; he knew anger and violence. While it was too late to change what happened to his beloved wife, Wilson felt that it was not too late for others, and in 1980 established EPIC in Buffalo, New York.
Today, EPIC has a presence in schools, churches, hospitals, and community agencies throughout New York State and New Jersey and has been implemented in 16 states and the Virgin Islands.
EPIC PROGRAM OFFERS FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS
EPIC's Pathways to Parenting offers parents a continuum of programming that develops parenting skills, parent advocacy in education, and parent leadership in communities.
EPIC's Pathways to Character infuses Character Education into the classroom, helps teachers develop the skills to maximize parental involvement through meaningful and effective parent/teacher relationships, and focuses on building capable and academically successful young adults.
EPIC's Pathways to Leadership training series offers parents, school administrator, and community members training experience that develops individuals into leaders, both at home and in their community, as it focuses on developing effective partnerships between teachers and parents for the child’s benefit.
To find out more about EPIC, visit us online at
www.epicforchildren.org
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