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Blind & Visually Impaired
Educating Communities for Parenting provides specialized parenting workshops, classes, discussion groups, and individual counseling for parents who are themselves or have children who are blind and visually impaired. Programs are specially designed to focus on the unique challenges these families face and provide guidance and education on healthy and effective discipline, brain development, creating and sustaining stability, effective communications, accessing resources, advocating for child and self, and maintaining stable family relationships.
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Spotlight - Meet Stacie
Educating Communities for Parenting is an incredible organization that has helped me tremendously as I transitioned from being sighted to becoming blind.
They have provided endless love, compassion, resources, and support for both my daughter and me since she was just one year old.
Their guidance and encouragement have helped me in ways I never could have imagined, and I am deeply grateful for everything they have done over the years.
Stacie Leap – ECP Parent
Advocate for the Blind and Low Vision Communities
President, Pennsylvania Organization of Blind Parents & President, Greater Philadelphia Chapter National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania
ECP Amazing Advocate
We first met Stacie after she was referred to us by a visiting nurse. At the time, she had a seven-month-old daughter and had only been blind for about a year after losing her sight due to domestic violence while she was two months pregnant.
Before losing her vision, Stacie was a college student, employed, and a talented artist. As she transitioned from being sighted to becoming blind, Educating Communities for Parenting became an important source of support for both her and her daughter.
Over the years, Stacie not only learned how to confidently parent an infant and toddler as a blind mother, but she also became a powerful advocate and respected leader for blind and visually impaired parents throughout Pennsylvania.
Stacie is an advocate for the Blind and Low Vision Communities
Yet, with her many accomplishments, Stacie is most proud of her role as mother to Alana, who has grown into a remarkable and thriving Tween.