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K-LOVE’s Peter Kaye Speaks with Leticia Randolph About Healthy Families

Peter Kaye speaks with Letitcia Randolph of Healthy Families Monroe about their home visiting program that assists families with their…

Thriving Forward

Thriving Forward – A Podcast with Sarah Fitzgibbons The latest episode from the Thriving Forward podcast highlights The Society for…

Foodlink Celebrates Major Expansion

We want to proudly share the news coverage and photos from last week’s press release pertaining to the Foodlink expansion…

SPCC Announces Appointment of Laurie Valentine as New Executive Director/CEO

The Society for the Protection and Care of Children’s Board of Directors is very pleased to announce the appointment of…

SPCC’s Champions for Children 2021 Gallery is open!

Our Champions for Children 2021 gallery can be found here: SPCC’s Champions for Children Gallery

SPCC Announces the Retirement of Lisa Butt, President & CEO

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Protection & Care of Children (SPCC), I am…

COVID-19 Rapid Testing Site Volunteers Needed

In partnership with the administrations of Monroe County Executive Adam J. Bello & City of Rochester, NY – Mayor’s Office,…

SPCC’s Holiday Project 2020

Every year, SPCC’s Holiday Project helps support the families served by our eight programs in special ways throughout the holiday…

Internship Opportunity for SPCC's Therapeutic Visitation Program

Zero to Three Journal Features SPCC’s Therapeutic Visitation Program

We are pleased to share that the great work of our Therapeutic Visitation Program (TVP) is featured in the September…

SPCC Equity Statement

SPCC advocates for equity and justice, particularly for historically marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed peoples. We are committed to interrupting racism,…

SPCC Endorses the Greater Rochester Black Agenda Group’s Declaration that Racism is a Public Health Crisis

SPCC supporters, colleagues, and participants, Our country and our community are in crisis. Racism is insidious, dangerous, and is killing Black People. Now…

Reopening Child Care & Early Education Programs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

At SPCC’s Mary Ellen Institute, we have been working closely with childcare staff and directors through our Infant and Early…

SPCC is open and we are here for you!

In spite of the need for social distancing to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, our work has…

UPDATE: SPCC’s 145th Anniversary Celebration rescheduled to November 6th

To our SPCC friends and supporters, As we are all aware, we are going through an unprecedented, uncertain time in…

Girl Scout Gold Award Project: Mural at the Visitation Center

Contributed by: Emma Smith I have been in Girl Scouts for the past 10 years. I began as a Daisy…

The Gift Of Giving

Contributed by: Ja’Nai Barber, MS (SPCC TAPSS Program Counselor) During this time of year many families (who I will refer…

SPCC Game

From 2016 – 2019, a group of RIT students collaborated with SPCC staff to develop a therapeutic online game called “Space Adventure” to help children communicate and express their emotions. Take a peek!

The Gift of Connection

Author: Bonnie Allen, MS, IMH-E®, Infant Mental Health Mentor- Policy, has worked with SPCC since 1998 and has worked as…

SPCC Benefits from Cobblestone Creek Country Club’s Member/Guest Invitational

The Society for the Protection and Care of Children (SPCC) was chosen as the 2019 charity of choice for the July Member/Guest…

RIT Tigers make game used as a therapeutic tool for children and families

The Rochester Institute of Technology recently featured this article on their website about the game developed for children and families…