The PACT Family Support Network reaches to the roots of the problems that confront our society by promoting the education, support and empowerment of families and communities. It's mission is to bring together parents, children, and community leaders to provide them with key information and help them establish the peer support necessary for effective action and meaningful change in their families and communities. The PACT Family Support Network offers two levels of training:

Thirty years of research has clearly established that the kinder, gentler world that we dream of, starts with the family and its response to each new baby. All parents want to be good parents, but to do the job well, they need information and good peer support. The Network is a response to the realization that providing information alone, does not necessarily change behavior in any long term way. For most parents to implement what they learn, they must have good long-term supportive relationships that empower them to face each new day confident of their worth, and the worth of their children. Similarly, to effectively change communities, grassroots leadership, as well as key professional leadership must be identified, developed, and supported.

Since 1987, The PACT Family Support Network has offered courses to parents, pregnant and parenting teens, fathers, incarcerated fathers and mothers, foster parents, grand parents, and parents of children with special needs. In addition to its work with fathers and mothers, it has provided support / education / empowerment groups for family workers from social service agencies, faith-based institutions, and a wide range of other community organizations. As a result of this training and the opportunity for continuing participation in Network activities, a large and ever growing number of professionals and non-professionals who are involved in parent work, are now supporting each other in exciting ways to make changes in their communities and in their own lives.  The trainings, playdays, workshops, and ongoing network activities, break through feelings of isolation and reach deeply into the hearts and minds of parents, children, and community leaders. As a result, The PACT Family Support Network turns isolation into community, discouragement into hope, and inaction into action.

The PACT Family Support Network began as a partnership between Dr. Gwen Brown, Director of PACT and The Delaware Parents’ Association. Other key partners are the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, The Delaware Community Foundation, The Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League and The Rodel Charitable Foundation.