Organized Parents Make A Difference, Inc. (OPMAD)

To empower and unite parents city-wide, to meet the academic, social, cultural, creative, and physical needs of children through parent-driven extended day programs that nurture and encourage responsible citizens.

Description:
OPMAD provides a wide range of after school enrichment activities which include, recreational, creative & cultural arts, academic, peer mediation, and life skills. One of our goals is to offer one-on-one academic help during homework time. Tutoring is one of our many opportunities available at this time.

It is OPMAD's top priority to provide safe, age-appropriate, developmentally based activities that are fun and meaningful. OPMAD serves children ages 4-16. Parents are encouraged and trained to be involved in all phases of program design and implementation.
Participating schools are: Annie Fisher, Batchelder, Kennelly, & Noah Webster.

History:
Organized Parents Make A Difference, Inc. (OPMAD) is a non-profit community organization. OPMAD was created by a group of parents in 1992 concerned about the lack of safe and well-supervised programs during after school hours. They developed a Board of Directors, by-laws, and its mission. With our first funding from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, OPMAD was born. The organization has four participating schools in after school & summer programs.

Contact person: Lisa Wascholl, Program Specialist, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (860) 548-0307

Address:

350 Farmington Ave Hartford, CT 06105 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.opmad@opmad.org

Directions:

Directly across the street from the Mark Twain House on Farmington Ave. and next to the Hartford Children's Theatre. Our building is on the north side of the street just before Farmington Ave & Woodland St. intersection.   Nearest Bus Stop: E. Bus Farmington Ave, 2 minutes minute walk For maps or information, please see http://www.cttransit.com/

Last updated on December 3, 2008