Parenting While Black: Growing and Healing Together

What is Parenting While Black?

Parenting While Black (PWB) is an interactive program and curriculum that provides primary caregivers with tools to simultaneously support their children’s healthy development and their own wellness.

About

The program includes 8 group-based sessions that use a combination of presentations, activities, and discussions to promote successful parenting in four key areas:

  1. Promoting positive racial identity
  2. Helping children cope with experiences of discrimination
  3. School and home-based educational involvement as Black parents
  4. Intergenerational mental wellness and racial stress coping

Learn more about Parenting While Black.

Additional Program Information

CEC - Homewood
622 N. Homewood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208

James Huguley, huguley@pitt.edu
Monica Henderson, mah 386@pitt.edu

This is a safe and empowering space for anyone who identifies as Black and is the primary caregiver for a child (under age 18) who identifies as Black.

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Address & Contact

CEC - Homewood
622 N. Homewood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
cechomewood@pitt.edu

Hours

Monday through Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Open select Tuesdays and Thursdays until 7:30 p.m.; evening hours determined by scheduled programming.

Parking & Transportation

  • Metered parking lot at the corner of Kelly Street and N. Homewood Avenue (across from CCAC)
  • Metered on-street parking
  • Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus 74 stops directly in front of the CEC (N. Homewood Avenue at Kelly Street)
  • Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus 71D stops at Hamilton Avenue and N. Homewood Avenue