Welcome to Family Connections

Family Connections is a tuition free parent participation preschool for low-income families in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. In our innovative program, parents participate in preschool classes with their children, ages newborn to five years. Children experience an array of educational opportunities that prepare them for success in kindergarten and beyond. Parents attend weekly parenting seminars, covering a range of topics, with an emphasis on positive discipline.

Everyone is a Winner of the Car Raffle!

Family Connections would like to thank all our families, board members, and ticket purchasers for supporting the 2008 Redwood City Rotary Car Raffle. The lucky winner of the VW Car (or $15,000) was Brad Shepherd, a real estate professional and participating member of the Redwood City Rotary Club. His bought his winning ticket to support the Rotary Club Charitable Foundation.

To conclude this year’s raffle, the Redwood City Rotary Club presented a check to Family Connections at their annual luncheon on July 22nd for $8,490 or 1,695 tickets sold! Thank you everyone for your support. Each and every $5 ticket sale has added up to help us continue our growing free preschool and parent education program.

Pictured between Pete and Ginny Hughes, member of the Redwood City Rotary Club and personal sponsors of the raffle, is our very own Julia San Bartolome. In addition to operating her own business, “The Pastry Princess”, Julia and her family are active participants in the Family Connections program. Julia also serves on our Board, and was our highest ticket seller this year


Stay tuned for next year’s car announcement and news.

Program Funding Support Spring/Summer 2008

Our 10th annual “An Evening with Children’s Authors” fundraising event promises to be an entertaining evening with several award winning authors/illustrators scheduled to speak and personally sign your books. The event will be held at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm.

Our three very special author/illustrators include:

Thacher Hurd, who participated in our very first event 10 years ago, Anna Grossnickle Hines, picture book author and illustrator, and Jeanne DuPrau, fiction book writer and author of the best selling book City of Embers

Tickets are $25 per person if you purchase them before November 1st and $30 at the door. You may purchase tickets online here.

Read about our author/illustrators!