Learning Community

The Family Success Institute Learning Community

New Jersey boasts countless local leaders who have developed positive community initiatives. They are parents and grandparents, leaders of nonprofits and state agencies, as well as leaders of local neighborhood initiatives. They invest their time and talent in laying the foundation for family success in their communities.

Many of these remarkable leaders have joined FSI to form a Learning Community. This collaborative group shares information, experiences and inspiration to form positive strategies for collective impact. Their services draw both direction and strength from place-based community mobilization, and are achieving better outcomes for children, youth and families.

Our members connect often in bi-monthly meetings, as well as in individual work groups, where they develop policy recommendations and devise goals to support specific issues that affect New Jersey families.

Upcoming 2025 Learning Community meetings:

  • January 14, 2025
  • March 11, 2025
  • May 13, 2025
  • July 8, 2025

Join Our Learning Community

Members of our Learning Community have included:

Steering Committee Members

Chairs
Kathleen Roe, Board member, FSI & Former Executive Director, Parents Inc.
Dominque Lee, Founder & CEO, BRICK Education Network

Committee Members
Tom Blatner, Co-founder & President, FSI
Tim Carden, Executive Director, FSI
Erica Harris DeValve, Director of Strategic Initiatives, FSI
Charles Venti, President, Inventive Strategies & Board Member, FSI
Jeanne Warnock, Co-founder & Treasurer, FSI
Gloria Aftanski, President & Chief Professional Officer, United Way of Central Jersey
Cinaida Anthony, Community Development Coordinator, Family Based Services Association of New Jersey
Lorenza Araiza, Community Affairs & Resource Center
Julienne Cherry, President & CEO, United Way of Greater Union County
Kathy Collins, former Executive Director, MonmouthCares
Diana Cooper, former President & CEO, Community Planning & Advocacy Council
Jorge Cruz, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Jackie Edwards, Executive Director, Parents Inc.
Bob Guarasci, Founder & CEO, New Jersey Community Development Corporation
Pastor Carolyn McCombs, Executive Director, New Destiny Family Success Centers
David Spector, Board President, CPAC
Anita Voogt, Associate VP Strategic Partnerships, Brookdale Community College
Rose Zeltzer, Department of Children Protection & Permanency (retired)

Member Organizations

Atlantic Cape Family Support Organization
Bergen Family Support Organization
Blessed Ministries Inc.
Brick Academy
Brookdale Community College
Burlington County Comm. Action Program
Burlington Family Support Organization
Camden Family Support Organization
Care Plus NJ, Inc.
Center for Autism and Early Childhood Montclair State University
Center for Family Services
Children’s Aid and Family Services
Comm. Coordinated Child Care of Union, Inc.
Community Food Bank of NJ
Community Planning and Advocacy Council Camden County
Cumberland Gloucester Salem Family Support Organization
Department of Early Childhood, Montclair State University
Empower Somerset, Inc.
Essex Family Support Organization
Family Based Services of Monmouth County
Gateway Community Action Partnership
Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition
Greater Newark LISC
Hudson Family Support Organization
Hunterdon Somerset Warren Family Support Organization
Inspira Medical Centers, Inc. IMPACT
Ironbound Community Corporation
Janus Solutions
Mercer County Office of Human Services
Mercer Family Support Organization
Middlesex Family Support Organization
Monmouth ACTS
Monmouth County Department of Health & Human Services
Monmouth County Family and Children’s Services
Monmouth Family Support Organization
New Destiny Family Success Center
New Jersey Community Development Corporation
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Newark Mentoring Movement
Newark Trust for Education
Northwest NJ Comm. Action Program
NORWESCAP Early Head Start
Ocean Family Support Organization
Oceanside II Family Success Center
Parents Inc.
Passaic County Department of Human Services
Passaic Family Support Organization
Port Norris Family Success Center
Powerful Families, Powerful Communities
Preferred Behavioral Health Group
Prevent Child Abuse NJ
Prevention Coalition of Union County
Programs for Parents
Programs for Parents, Inc.
Project Self-Sufficiency
Promise Neighborhood Family Success Center
Quality Care, Services Inc.
Rising Tide Capital
Robin’s Nest, Inc.
Salem Family Success Center
South Ward Children’s Alliance
UIH Family Partners
Union County Department of Human Services
Union County Human Services
Union Family Support Organization
United Way of Central Jersey
United Way of Greater Union County
United Way of Passaic County
Urban League of Hudson County, Inc.
Visiting Nurse Association Central NJ, Inc.

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