The Upper Bucks Parenting Center provides educational resources and programs that empower and support families to build emotionally healthy relationships. Our vision is to impact the community in a way that helps children grow into healthy, responsible adults. Parenting Education is a relatively new field and discipline. It borrows from education, child development, human development, psychology, sociology, family systems theory and others. Upper Bucks Parenting Center (UBPC) has been offering parenting workshops, book discussions and other programs to families in the Upper Bucks area since 2001. The UBPC grew out of the vision and initiative of Quakertown Community School District's former Superintendent, Dr. James R. Scanlon in the year 2000. A partnership between Quakertown Community School District, St. Lukes Quakertown Hospital and the Upper Bucks YMCA provided the support for the establishment of the Center. Thirteen volunteers were selected from the Quakertown, Pennridge and Palisades communities to take part in a 6-month educational program run by Lakeside's Parenting Resource Education Network. Upon completion of this educational program these volunteers created what was then the Quakertown Parenting Center through many hours of hard work and dedication. Parenting education programs began in the Quakertown Community in the Fall of 2001. As demand for these programs grew and extended to both the Palisades and Pennridge Communities, Quakertown Community School District secured another grant for additional Parenting Educators to join what is now the Upper Bucks Parenting Center in November 2004. The UBPC became a 501c3 Non-Profit organization at this time. Today the UBPC is supported by many Upper Bucks Community organizations such as, Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown Community School Districts, Quakertown Rotary Club, St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital, Upper Bucks YMCA, PREN of Lakeside Educational Network and more. Please visit our website at http://www.upperbucksparentingcenter.org for more information regarding our workshops and discussion groups.