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For children. For caregivers. For communities.

At the heart of Family Nurturing Center’s work is the belief that parenting is learned and that parents are most successful in nurturing their children when they feel competent in their skills, connected to others, and nurtured themselves by the support of a caring community. With insight and practice, all mothers, fathers, and caregivers can recognize their strengths and become effective teachers, listeners, and sources of guidance and stability. Children raised in nurturing environments are much more likely to have positive lifelong physical, emotional, and academic outcomes.

09/29/2026

On Thursday, we celebrated our latest cohort of fathers graduating from our Nurturing Fathers Program 🎉

One graduate reflected on the kind of father he chooses to be: "not being perfect but present, learning and growing, and continuing to show up for my child. That's what I intend to do."

We're so grateful to the Office of Returning Citizens for sponsoring this group and partnering with us to support these fathers and their families.

09/25/2026

Join FNC's Leadership Team

Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts is looking for two mission-driven leaders to join our leadership team and shape our next chapter:

• Senior Director of People & Culture
• Senior Director of Family & Community Programs

If you are passionate about driving impact, supporting teams, and strengthening programs across our communities, we’d love to hear from you.

🔗 Explore the role details: https://vist.ly/5jw78

📩 Send application materials to: [email protected]

09/17/2026

This past weekend, students from Southern New Hampshire University Chandler Center, representing both their in-person and online campuses, spent their Sunday morning packing 80 Welcome Baby gift bags with essential baby care items, a care package for new moms, and a book in Spanish, English, or Haitian Creole. The group also made 14 fleece tied blankets for our playgroups.

A big thank you to the SNHU students for coming out on a rainy day to help make it possible for our home visitors to welcome new families and connect them to the resources they need 👏

08/10/2026

𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿

𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻, 𝗠𝗔 — 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 — Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts (FNC) today announced that Carol Torres has been named the organization's next Executive Director, marking the next chapter of leadership while continuing its commitment to strengthening families and helping children thrive.

Read the full announcement on our blog: https://vist.ly/5e7p7

08/05/2026

Handmade with care and full of color—we are so grateful to The Proper Bostonian Quilters for these beautiful quilts, burp cloths, and hats 🧵

They'll soon be tucked into our Welcome Baby gift bags alongside an outfit, board book, toy, other essential items, and connections to community resources to support and celebrate local families with newborns.

07/28/2026

Today, FNC Hyde Park welcomed Cummings Foundation volunteer Patti Keenan, who stopped by to share the exciting news that FNC was awarded $50,000 in Cummings MAD$ to support our work with families, especially parenting education!

We'd like to give a big thank you to Patti Keenan and the Cummings Foundation for their continued investment in FNC's work.

07/17/2026

For the past ten years (and counting!), Family Nurturing Center of MA has partnered with The Basics to help teach parents across Boston the importance of maximizing love and managing stress, talking and singing, counting, exploring through movement and play, and reading together.

This week, long-time friend of Family Nurturing Center, Dr. Ron Ferguson, co-authored an op-ed in the Boston Herald focused on how every child has two classrooms: the one they attend, and the one they come home to: Gaskin and Ferguson: Every child has two classrooms. Thanks to the Basics for the shout-out, and for many years of partnership!

07/01/2026

Family Nurturing Center is a proud partner of the Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds. We are pleased to be featured in The Funds at Five report, an in-depth retrospective that includes stories and insights from our programs and other awardees leading policy, systems, and environmental change across Massachusetts.

🔗 familynurturing.org/fnc-featured-on-hria-funds-at-five-report/

06/25/2026

Last night, FNC celebrated our latest Nurturing Parenting® Program graduates in Dorchester 🎉

Families gathered for a bilingual ceremony to receive certificates, have dinner together, and reflect on 14 weeks of hard work and personal growth. Parents and children shared their own stories: moments of courage and vulnerability, lessons learned, but above all, the gratitude for how far they'd come together as a family.

To our facilitators: thank you for your hard work, creativity, and dedication, week after week 🩷

Congratulations again to all our graduates!

06/21/2026

This Father's Day, we're still celebrating something that happened earlier this week 👏

On June 17, FNC was recognized for our work through the Nurturing Fathers' Program and our commitment to strengthening fatherhood engagement and family connections across Massachusetts at the Black Fathers Celebration hosted by the Office of Black Male Advancement, with Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 in attendance.

John O'Neil, Director of FNC's Nurturing Fathers' Program, accepted the award on FNC's behalf. John has dedicated his career to bringing this 13-week, evidence-based program to fathers across Massachusetts, helping them recognize their strengths, build confidence as parents, and deepen their relationships with their children—and training hundreds of facilitators who now carry that work into communities across the state through a partnership with DCF.

In his remarks, John spoke about the lasting influence fathers have in shaping their children's lives. There's no better day than today to honor that truth. Happy Father's Day to all fathers, facilitators, and fatherhood figures doing this work every day!

Address

200 Bowdoin Street
Boston, MA
02122

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5:15pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+16174741143

Website

http://www.familynurturing.org/

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