Parent awareness

Welcome.

Registration is required for all Parent Awareness Programs.  Please reach out to Sara Mirsky membership@ywcadn.org with questions or if you are interested in partnering with YWCA Parent Awareness team.

YWCA Parent Awareness Mission & History

YWCA Parent Awareness is a family-focused program that has provided free support and education to parents and children for over 20 years with the goal of encouraging healthy, positive development of Darien youth and families.

At the request of the Darien United Way, the YWCA assumed the program in July 1998 from the volunteer-run Council on Drugs and Alcohol, which ran the program since the 1980s. The goal was to replace the narrower focus of preventing high-risk teen behavior with a broader focus on positive parenting families.