December 18, 2006

Dear Colleagues and Fellow Parents:

2006 has been an exceptional year for improving the lives of thousands of children through educating and helping their parents to be more effective and nurturing.

Our nonprofit organization, the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) , has been quite instrumental, with the parenting seminars and classes we conduct, with the parenting instructors who work for other agencies and schools who we train nationwide, and with our Effective Parenting newsletter that now reaches 40,000 people.

We have also been responsible for and have been the sole financial supporter of the new National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI). As you know the goal of NEPI is to have every child in our nation raised effectively and humanely by parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.

NEPI has made remarkable progress in a very short time through mobilizing numerous individuals and organizations to work toward this goal, through its online Effective Parenting Petition , and through presenting and advocating for this goal at a historic White House Briefing that took place last week in Washington, D.C.

We at CICC are very proud of what we are accomplishing and with being able to start and maintain NEPI.

We would greatly appreciate a year-end donation to assist us in continuing our and NEPI's important work.

You or your organization can make a tax-deductible contribution with a credit card by clicking here.

We thank you in advance for your support and we look forward to an even better year for children and parents in 2007.

Have warm and wonderful holidays!

Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
NEPI Board of Advisors and
Founder and Executive Director,
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring


Shown above is Dr. Alvy, his wife Mary, and daughters, Lisa and Brittany

To obtain a copy of the presentation on National Effective Parenting Initiative given at the White House Briefing, click here.