PACT is The University of Delaware’s Parents as Advocates, Counselors, and Teachers Program.  PACT helps parents and community leaders support the emotional and academic competence of their children, as well as change their schools and communities.
 

Through this program in the Center for Community Research and Service, training is offered to educators, community leaders, parents, and others interested in taking leadership related to family issues as well as, the elimination of racism and other “isms.

Following each training, individuals can become a part of an ongoing support and empowerment network to insure that they continue to get good information and long-term support as they carry out the important work of changing their personal lives, the lives of their families, and their communities.

PACT’s key trainings and network building opportunities take place through The PACT Family Support Network, The PACT Fathers Network, The PACT Parent Leadership Corps, and Partners in Eliminating Racism (PIER).   

Since 1987, the PACT Family Support Network has offered classes to parents, pregnant and parenting teens, fathers, prison fathers and mothers, grandparents, foster parents, and parents of children with special needs. In addition, the PACT Parent Educator Certification Program has reached hundreds of community leaders including a large number of Fathers' leaders, family workers, and community leaders.  In 1998 PACT initiated a PIER (Partners In Eliminating Racism) Certification Class. It also has a growing PIER high school students' initiative at Newark High School. Finally, in an effort to make progress toward "closing the achievement gap", PACT is presently partnering with the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League  and the Rodel Charitable Foundation to establish the PACT Parent Leadership Corps and with the UD's Center for Disabilities Studies to develop the "Head Start Fathers Initiative".