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For Immediate Release
Date: May 1,
2007
To: News Editor
From: The
National Exchange Club Foundation, 3050 Central Ave., Toledo, Ohio 43606
800-XCHANGE, 419-535-3232, Fax: 419-535-1989,
www.nationalexchangeclub.org
Contacts: Karen Rich
Askew, Director of CAP Services, National Exchange Club Foundation 800-816-4570;
Tina Bartleson, Program Specialist, National Exchange Club Foundation
770-684-0442; Teresa Cowan, Center Director, 406-728-5437
Exchange Club
Parenting Place of Missoula, MT
Receives Accreditation By The National Exchange Club Foundation
The National Exchange
Club Foundation (NECF) recently accredited the Parenting Place of Missoula,
Montana. The NECF coordinates the largest network of Parent Aide
programs in the United States, with more than
100 sites throughout the country.
The Exchange Club Center was
founded in 1995 with support from local Exchange Clubs, and has been providing
Parent Aide services to families in the community for 12 years. Parent Aides are
trained, professionally supervised individuals, volunteer or paid, who assist
parents under stress and those whose children are at-risk of abuse or neglect.
The Exchange Club Center was
accredited at the AAA level, the highest awarded, for compliance with its
Standards of Operation and Practice. Accreditation demonstrates to funders
and others that the organization is in compliance with national level criteria
for quality programs and sound business practices. This accreditation reflects
the center’s compliance in six areas: Commitment to Mission; Financial Resource
Planning and Management; Human Resources; Networking Resources; Organizational
Resources; and Program Practices.
Karen Rich Askew, Director of
Child Abuse Prevention Services at NECF, states: “The Standards of Operation
and Practice has been developed based on more than 20 years of observation
of programs within our network. We believe they are state of the art and are
pleased that the Exchange Club Center is a part of our network.”
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