Welcome to Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley!

Good Beginnings is a free, home-visitor program that relies on trained volunteers to provide support to any family with a new baby. The concept behind the Good Beginnings home visiting program is simple and powerful: any family with a new baby can use a helping hand. Good Beginnings volunteers - like a good friend or neighbor - offer the kind of flexible support that can make a family's first months with a new baby healthier and less stressful. Just as important, Good Beginnings is about celebrating this amazing and joyous experience!

News & Events

• 1/12 - We are please to welcome two new members to the Board of Directors! Nancy Johnson from Hartland, VT and Sharon Jacques from Lebanon, NH. Both are active volunteers for Good Beginnings and will bring a wealth of insight and first-hand experience to the Board.
  
  
• 11/11 - Did you see the article by our own Denise Dame in the current issue of Kid Stuff magazine? If you missed it you can read a PDF copy here!


• 10/11 - Read the Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley Fall 2011 Newsletter online now.


• 10/25/11 - Check out this article in the Valley News about Dr. Schneebaum and our fall lecture on "Creative Parenting."


• Did you miss the fall lecture? Or just need a refresher? Don't worry, you can view it online.


• Interested in learning creative new ways to handle childhood discipline? Join us for a FREE lecture this fall, October 18th, as part of the Dorothy Campion-Corcoran Lecture series. Learn more -> Creative Parenting... As Simple as a Day at the Beach


• 7/11 - On Saturday, July 30th, tune in to NHPR at 8:35am to hear a Giving Matters story of a Good Beginnings recipient and volunteer. To read more and see photos of Ruth, her triplets, and her Good Beginnings volunteer, visit the Giving Matters website.


• 7/11 - Join us for a "Previously Loved" Women's Designer Clothing Sale on July 23rd at the Courtyard Marriott in Lebanon. The hours are from 10am-4pm. All proceeds will benefit Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley. For more information contact Diane Buffington at 603-448-6985 or dbuf@comcast.net.


• 6/11 - Here are two great articles on Good Beginnings, each with a profile of local volunteers and families.
  • The Norwich Times
  • The Quechee Times
  
  
• 6/11 - We are please to add three new members to the Board of Directors! Welcome to Tony Abbate, an investment advisor from Hanover; Dawn Dahlstrom, an attorney from White River Junction; and Molly Stone, a certified nutrition and lactation counselor from Bradford. In addition, we are please to have with us two Tuck students this year. Sophie Roux and Kelly Winquist will serve a one-year term through the school's Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship.
  
  
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