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2010 Positive and Practical Parenting Workshops

Positive and Practical Parenting Classes are 8 weeks sessions (20 – hours) for parents, grandparents, child care providers and anyone needing help with parenting and communication skills. Information focuses on preschool children, primary, elementary school – aged children and teens.

2010 Positive and Practical Parenting Registration Forms (PDF | 63KB)

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Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®

The Petersburg Office will conduct a unit project "Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®" for six limited resource families from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM October 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, 2009.

The Petersburg Office was one of the pilots for "Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline® Program" unit project conducted October 2008 to April 2009. Pictures show the families hard at work learning how to cook and eat healthier.

Chef 1st. Sgt. Lavaughn Stroud from Ft. Lee Army Base demonstrates how to cut up peppers
Chef 1st. Sgt. Lavaughn Stroud from Ft. Lee Army Base demonstrates how to cut up peppers
  
Chef Brenda Drew demonstrates how to prepare the food
Chef Brenda Drew demonstrates how to prepare the food

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Petersburg 4-H 2010 Application and Reference Forms

Attached are the Petersburg 4-H 2010 Counselor-in-Training and Counselor application and reference forms to be completed and turned in to the Petersburg 4-H no later than March 1, 2010. Petersburg 4-H 2010 Application and Reference Forms (PDF | 393KB)

Co-Parenting Education - Parents Forever Living Apart-Parenting Together

Virginia Cooperative Extension now offers Parents Forever Living Apart - Parenting Together at the Petersburg Office on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 and Tuesday, November 24, 2009.

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