The mission of Virginia Place/One-Parent Family Facility is to help parents and their children develop the educational skills needed to achieve self-sufficiency.

Description:
Virginia Place, the One-Parent Family Facility, provides a transitional living/learning setting for single parents who are striving toward self-sufficiency by pursuing higher education. The primary purpose of the Virginia Place program is to help these parents and their young children develop the educational skills to achieve self sufficiency.
Completing the Virginia Place program prepares families to live and work successfully. As each family succeeds and leaves the facility another family moves in and begins to profit from this unique, integrated, and comprehensive program.

While living at Virginia Place, these parents and children pursue personal growth through a program designed to promote self-sufficiency. This program involves activities that enhance health maintenance, parenting skills, management of family resources, nutritional knowledge, problem-solving, work skills, and job-search techniques.
Basic to this self-sufficiency program is educational development. Parents fulfill academic or vocational training coursework as full-time students, while their children attend the Virginia Place Child Development Center.

History:
Virginia Place has been in existence since 1986. Virginia Place has helped hundreds of parents to obtain an education and to develop a better understanding of themselves and their children. These parents have set goals for themselves and their families and pursued these goals through determination and hard work. Virginia Place provides assistance, support, and care; but the individual parents have been responsible for helping themselves to become knowledgeable parents and educated, productive citizens.

Contact people:

Marolyn Dowdy, Execuitve Director, (phone), (email) Robin Coston, Child Development Director, (phone), (email) Vivian Turner, Family Services Coordinator, (phone)

Office fax number: (859) 231-0893

Address:

1156 Horsemans Lane Lexington, KY 40504 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.virginia-place.org

Directions:

From New Circle Road turn north on Harrodsburg Road (toward downtown). Continue on Harrodsburg Road as it turns in to South Broadway. Turn left on Red Mile Road. Turn left on Horsemans Lane. Virginia Place in. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Red Mile and Horsemans Lane, 2 minute walk